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 (26 January – 1 February 2026)

This Week’s Movie Menu (26 January – 1 February 2026)

If you’re in the mood for a good laugh, a good cry, or just about any other good emotion, then you’ll definitely want to check out this week’s stellar line-up of film releases, including a romantic-comedy where the emphasis is on “comedy”, a terrifying simian horror, and a loving homage of French New Wave cinema…

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