Legendary 1980s/90s Honk Kong/Hollywood action auteur John Woo sets an early pace for his legendary career with a period-kung fu movie about two swordsman-buddies caught in the midst of a bloody revenge plot between warring clans. Spoiler alert: there's a martial arts master whose style is "asleep."

Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here!

*Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more!

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman (1963).

From the clanky jangle of that first Tom Waits song to that jangly clank of the last Tom Waits song, you know you are in for a treat. Jim Jarmusch pops back up on the show with his humanist anthology of five stories set in cabs, each taking place in a different city on the same night. Winona, Gena, Giancarlo, Armin, Rosie, Isaach, uh.. Beatrice, Roberto, and … Matti? Look he went truly international with his cast, so I can’t name them all off the top of my head.

Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here!

*Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more!

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Woo’s Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1991).

Cat, piano, well, watermelon, mirror, bananas. You know, you're basic horror movie formula. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi spins a eerily formulaic but wildly unanticipate-able story of teens. And death.

Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here!

*Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more!

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth (1991).