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 (25 – 31 August 2025)

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…

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