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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 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…
The Order (2024, dir. Justin Kurzel) – Toronto International Film Festival
In the early 1980s, an FBI agent pursues a dissident group of white supremacists…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (11 – 17 December 2023)
Only a couple of weeks to go until the big day – but before Christmas can arrive, we’ve got at least one whole week of new film releases to get through, including a long-awaited Claymation sequel, the second part of a major adaptation, and even the roaring return of a legendary screen monster…




