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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!
BFI London Film Festival 2025 Reviews: The Secret Agent, Twinless and more!
Our first collection of reviews from this year’s BFI London Film Festival includes write-ups on some of the most anticipated titles from this year’s edition, including Sirât, Left-Handed Girl and others!
Him (dir. Justin Tipping)
An aspiring football player is put through a testing regime by a former quarterback…
The Smashing Machine (dir. Benny Safdie)
Former wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr helps usher in a new era for the sport…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (25 – 31 August 2025)
With the summer almost over (boo!), there’s still time to check out a healthy new slew of film releases (yay!), including a darkly funny marriage breakdown, a crazy 90s-set thriller, the introduction of a new sleuth team, and the return of cinema’s most famous shark…




