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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!
Hit Man (2024, dir. Richard Linklater) – Second Helping
A lowly professor is hired to go undercover as an assassin…
The Beast (2024, dir. Bertrand Bonello) – Second Helping
A woman has an encounter with a man over different time periods…
Young Woman and the Sea (2024, dir. Joachim Rønning)
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle attempts to swim the English Channel…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (29 April – 5 May 2024)
An all-encompassing tribute to stunt performers leads this week’s pack of engaging new film releases, which also include a hard-knuckle bodybuilding romance, the bizarre origins of an iconic breakfast meal, and a return to the beginning of cinema’s most successful saga…