A spectacular, dazzling and bloody martial arts reimagining of Shakespeare's legendary ... more
Hamlet, 'The Banquet' is an epic tale of revenge, violence and betrayal.Locked in a loveless marriage Empress Wan (international superstar Zhang Ziyi) is desperate to keep her forbidden love for Prince Wu Luan (Daniel Wu), from a family divided by cruelty and oppression. When the Emperor suddenly dies, his conniving young brother Li takes up the throne forcing Wan to marry him.But Wu Luan refuses to see his love snatched away through such evil, greed and deception. After repeated attempts on his life amid furious confrontations with the new Emperor's imperial assassins, Wu Luan resolves to return to the palace and take revenge for himself, his beloved and a nation in the grip of a murderous madman.Featuring astonishing, career-topping action from the infamous Yuen Wo Ping (Kill Bill, The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and a cast featuring some of Asia's most acclaimed cinema icons, 'The Banquet' is like no other epic you have ever witnessed.
Gaul was divided into three parts. No four parts - for one small village of indomitable ... more
Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 5 The Romans build a barricade around the village. So Asterix and Obelix demonstrate their resistance by going on a journey around the entire country collecting local specialities on the way.
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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
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
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 ...
