OK, this is how Ben’s brain works:

So I’m talking about Kill Bill in an email to a friend, mentioning different references in the film and whatnot, and my friend asks me if I had actually seen a Shaw Brothers film. (The Shaw Brothers, for those not in the know, made a lot of really influencial Kung Fu movies in the 70’s and 80’s like Five Deadly Venoms, which Tarantino references all the time in Kill Bill, including openning the movie by saying that it was shot in Shaw Scope.) I said in my reply that no, I hadn’t seen any of their films but I really wanted to.

Not an hour later after sending that email I sent him a second email. I had searched “Shaw Brothers” in Ebay and right at the top of the screen was an auction for 11 Shaw Brothers movies for 55 bucks. The auction ended in twenty minutes.

So, of course, I bought them.

In the coming weeks expect to see quite a few Kung Fu reviews.