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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!
Rental Family (dir. Hikari)
A struggling actor is hired by an unusual firm in Japan…
Oh, Canada (dir. Paul Schrader)
A dying filmmaker gives his final on-screen testimony about his past…
Giant (dir. Rowan Athale)
British-Yemeni boxer Naseem Hamed rises in the sport…
WEEKLY PREVIEWS
A handy menu of cinema and home releases!
This Week’s Movie Menu (22 – 28 December 2025)
Christmas is just days away, and as if things weren’t jolly enough already, we’ve got some amazing new films to round out the last full week of the year, among them a highly-buzzed tale of ambition, a twisty domestic thriller, an Oscar-calibre family drama, and the most you’ll probably cry at a Christmas movie all year…




