Jack Martin script writer and movie reviewer

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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)

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This Week’s Movie Menu (20 – 26 November 2023)

This Week’s Movie Menu (20 – 26 November 2023)

As our American cousins get ready to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday this week (and then, one day after the peaceful festivities, absolute carnage on Black Friday), us Brits are invaded with a whole new palate of exciting film releases, including an epic biopic of France’s most notorious ruler, a brand-new Disney animation, the return of a fast-food duo, a pair of Christmas classics, and more…

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