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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!
Speak No Evil (2024, dir. James Watkins)
A family is terrorised by their hostile holiday hosts…
The Last Showgirl (2024, dir. Gia Coppola) – Toronto International Film Festival
An aging Las Vegas showgirl is faced with a crushing blow…
Oh, Canada (2024, dir. Paul Schrader) – Toronto International Film Festival
A dying filmmaker gives his final on-screen testimony about his past…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (18 – 24 December 2023)
Seven more sleeps until the big day… and in anticipation of the fast-incoming holiday, the usual load of new film releases is a lot lighter this week, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any movies worth watching, whether it’s an aquatic superhero epic, or a romantic tale involving one of the greatest conductors of all time…




