Loosely adapted from Shakespeare's classic Hamlet The Banquet is set in 907 AD China ... more
where the Tang Dynasty is in tatters. As infighting threatens to engulf the imperial family the head of the family takes young Wan as his wife ignoring the affections of his son Prince Wu Luan. Hurt by this Wu Luan goes into exile studying dance and music whilst the royal family tears itself apart. His Uncle murders his father takes power and then sends assassins to kill Wu Luan in order that he might never return to claim the throne. However Wu Luan evades capture and returns to court only to be exiled again by the Emperor. On the 100th night of his reign the Emperor holds a midnight banquet in celebration a perfect opportunity to Wu Luan to return once and for all...
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Martial Arts - Director: Prachya Pinkaew - Original Language: English\Vietnamese\Thai\Mandarin - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Tony Jaa, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Petchtai Wongkamlao
Production Year: 1972 - Martial Arts - Director: Bruce Lee - Original Language: English\Cantonese\Chinese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Robert Wall, Jon T. Benn
Production Year: 2002 - Martial Arts - Director: Yimou Zhang - Original Language: Mandarin - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Advantages: Good food and service Disadvantages: Tables are a tad regimented
could stroke them if you felt so inclined!
The dining area is quite a large expanse with tables being almost in rows, and set out mainly in tables of 4, although there are a few circular tables. At one side of the room, and covering the whole wall along one side is a mural which Little Miss loves! It is basically a landscape showing very verdant hills and fields, and all looks incredibly luscious. Little Miss walks to the mural and looks at it quite frequently; she also goes to see the fish a lot, so maybe she is trying to tell us something about the company!
**Menu and Food**
There are the usual banquets starting at £16.50 and going up in price to about £30. Being creatures of habit, we usually go for a middle of the range banquet for two- there is then plenty for Little Miss to eat as well. The middle of the range banquet is ...
Advantages: Brilliant, nihilistic Disadvantages: R1 is better
FILM:
AKA BANQUET OF THE BEASTS
A group of disaffected youths in 70s Japan separate from society and form their own political group.
But when their leader is jailed he leaves his sexually manipulative girlfriend in charge, and she eventually causes ill-feeling and mutiny within the sect ... which leads to some of the most sustained scenes of brutality ever put on screen.
Based upon a series of student demonstrations that took place in Japan in the 70s and ended in bloody riots on the streets, KICHIKU is the stunning result of a college project from 1997.
The first half of the film is relatively sedate. Beautifully shot and complemented by mannered, mature performances from it's young amateur cast, the film teeters at times on Arthouse territory.
Never dull, just leisurely, the first half of the film is however ...
Advantages: Quite good extras Disadvantages: All in one long episode
Fimbles ? Smelly Jelly
I have to admit that Fimbles are not one of my favourite children?s programmes though my daughter loves it so we decided to go and get her a DVD so when we wanted to watch something on the television, she could watch it happily on the laptop ? which she enjoys doing as its mummy?s laptop and she isn?t meant to touch it!
The Fimbles are Fimbo, Florrie and Baby Pom, who all live in a lovely, colourful place called Fimble Valley. The Fimbles are cuddly hippo like creatures each with lovely colourful ?skins?. Other characters in this programme include a blue tree frog called Rockit and a mole called Roly Mo, a pink bird called Bessie and her chick Ribble. Most of the other characters are essentially large puppets except the chick who is just a great ball of fluff with eyes stuck on it, unmoving in the main ...
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