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 (9 – 15 February 2026)

This Week’s Movie Menu (9 – 15 February 2026)

Feel the love this Valentine’s Day with a number of romantic (and not quite as romantic) new films to take your date to, whether it’s a starry rendition of a classic novel, the story of an unlikely sports star, and a looney animated adventure…

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