Kill Bill: Volume 1

A long time in the coming, Tarantino's two-part martial arts sword fighting epic gets off to a roaring rampaging start with Vol 1.

Tarantino wears those influences on his sleeves: Chinese/Japanese martial arts flicks, blaxploitation and anime.

Something of a departure from his previous films in that there is no smart era-defining dialogue here, just glorious, bloody, driven narrative.

A must for anyone with a passion for the left field, low budget joys of people like Argento, Jodorowsky and any of the directors who came out of the Shaw Brothers studios in the 70s.