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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 Substance (2024, dir. Coralie Fargeat)
An aging celebrity is introduced to a mysterious youth-revitalising procedure…
The Life of Chuck (2024, dir. Mike Flanagan) – Toronto International Film Festival
A trio of chapters in the life of ordinary accountant Charles Krantz…
The Wild Robot (2024, dir. Chris Sanders) – Toronto International Film Festival
A robot learns to live in nature after it crash-lands on a remote island…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (25 – 31 December 2023)
Merry Christmas to one and all! It’s been a monumental year (with a whole new one yet to come), but it’s going out with a bang as the final movie menu of 2023 includes some real go-getters including a fast-paced biopic, the glorious return of an animation legend, a hilarious sports comedy, and much more…
