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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!
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…
The Brutalist (2024, dir. Brady Corbet) – Toronto International Film Festival
In 20th century America, a Hungarian Jewish architect is given the opportunity to design a monumental new building…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (27 November – 3 December 2023)
Dust off your decorations, untangle the lights, and let Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey out of their hibernating cave: the countdown to Christmas is officially on! And the festive mood extends to this week’s crop of new film releases, which include a chilly psychological thriller, a horror-comedy about deadly elves, an Eddie Murphy fantasy-comedy, the return of cinema’s favourite human-sized elf, and more…
