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“Ma chere Mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents – your dinner!”
Lumiere (Jerry Orbach) in Beauty and the Beast (1991, dirs. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
LATEST REVIEWS
What to see, and what to flee!
Babygirl (2024, dir. Halina Reijn) – Toronto International Film Festival
A CEO has a sexual reawakening with her younger intern…
The Piano Lesson (2024, dir. Malcolm Washington) – Toronto International Film Festival
A family faces its legacy when deciding what to do with a historic heirloom…
Emilia Pérez (2024, dir. Jacques Audiard) – Toronto International Film Festival
A Mexican cartel boss enlists a lawyer for an unusual request…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (5 – 11 August 2024)
We’re in the dead heat of summer, and this week’s selection of films will fire things up even more, especially when they include an adventurous video game adaptation, a tense serial killer thriller, a daring heist, and the exploits of a notorious emperor…