Jack Martin script writer and movie reviewer

Serving up the latest film reviews every week

“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!

WEEKLY PREVIEWS

A handy menu of cinema and home releases!

This Week’s Movie Menu (15 – 21 December 2025)

This Week’s Movie Menu (15 – 21 December 2025)

It’s a much lighter load than usual this week, but for good reason: the hugely anticipated release of a years-in-the-making sequel by one of our most visionary filmmakers is set to dominate the conversation, so why bother putting anything else beside it? Aside from a couple of fun-filled animated adventures and a South Korean disaster thriller, of course…

read more


Optimized by Optimole