Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble travelling tax collector, arrives in a small town, but, the inns all being full, he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There he meets Taoist swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence find out more...

The exploration of the enormity of life when a recently deceased ghost returns to his house to try and reconnect with his wife. Made on a shoe string and in secret, it is a hypnotic observation of life and time after we die and it achieves to visually convey the psychological weight of certain death and that life will continue once we're gone. The people sitting next to me left the cinema about 20 minutes in because it is indeed a very slow moving film and I can understand why they left but t find out more...

Dae-jin and his brother Ho-jin are as close as brothers can be. Hurriedly on the way to the car race in which his brother is competing, Ho-jin is killed while, simultaneously, Dae-jin is critically injured in a track incident. After waking up from a long coma Dae-jin unerringly takes on the entire habits as well as the looks of his worshipped brother. Matters escalate after he falls into an addictive tryst with Ho-jin's wife that goes far beyond a brother and sister-in-law relationship... find out more...

A kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin vies for the love of the beautiful princess Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah. When he finds a magic lamp, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself a prince in order to marry her. He is also on a mission to stop the powerful Jafar who plots to steal the magic lamp that could make his deepest wishes come true.

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A supernatural, fantastical tale of love found in the sleezy and glitzy streets of central Paris. 'Angel–A' is quintessential Luc Besson, ie little in the way of story, but my, the cinematography from Thierry Arbogast does look absolutely stunning. find out more...

Action fantasy tale about a wise-cracking trucker who attempts to rescue his friend's fiance from a 2000 year-old magician who lives beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician's dark domain. An excellent chop suey movie, very funny, highly entertaining and probably way ahead of it's time.

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2.9 & 2.10; - 'What's My Line'; Buffy and Angel finally get it together for their first date and Buffy gets her first taster of fellow slayer Kendra. In between their blossoming relationship Angel gets himself into a spot of bother with Spike and the two blood-sucker battering babes join forces to save Buffy's beau. find out more...

2.12 - 'Bad eggs'; the Scooby gang have to take care of eggs for Home Economics. Demon eggs... of course. find out more...

4.9 – 'Something Blue'; things go topsy-turvey when Buffy falls in love with Spike (you can't blame her really), Giles goes blind and Xander becomes an even bigger demon magnet. find out more...

4.12 - 'A New Man'; Buffy and Riley explore the extent of each other's powers as they become more romantically involved while Giles gets turned into a demon and has to avoid being slain by the slayer. find out more...