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For our diamond jubilee episode (60!!) we had to go big with a double dose of lady assassin action: Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance. But before we get into this love song of an episode, we had to talk about what we watched this week. And as per usual, Dre outdoes the competition (i.e., Goodman). Dre watched for the 2nd time the Brian De Palma neo-noir classic, Blow Out, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary; Branded to Kill, the Japanese film about a rice-sniff...

Ghost Dog, power, equality. Always see everything, my brother. That's the kind of vibe we're about to get on. So join us for this stoic, Jim Jarmusch samurai flick featuring Forest Whitaker, his son, Damon, the RZA and a whole slew of over the hill mobsters. But before we read passages from the Hagakure and hang out with our favorite Haitian ice cream vendor, we have to talk about what we watched this week.Dre and Goodman privately agreed to watch the Sam Jackson-voiced, RZA-scored anime seri...

Demon Woman, Demon Hag. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to. However, you slice it up, it comes up Onibaba every time. But before we get lost in the flowing miscanthus, stumble into a pit and plummet to our deaths, only to have our clothes and valuables scavenged, and also have some frank depictions of sex, we have to talk about what we watched this week.Goodman knocked out seasons 1 & 2 of Netflix's Lupin starring everyone's favorite caretaker from the 2011 French hit, The Intouchables, Omar Sy. He als...

Holy, Shogun Assassin, Ronin, it's Samurai Swordplay Month-ish at Fully Operational! We're delving into some samurai classics and deep cuts (get it?), starting with the Rza/Wu-Tang Clan approved, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance. But before we start slicing off legs at the mid-calf, we have to talk about what we watched this week. Dre continued his spaghetti western pilgrimage with Il Mercenario (or The Mercenary), starring Franco Nero, Tony Musante and Jack Palance as Curly (way before ...

With West Coast temperatures in the 110s, we figured why not add a little more Heat... and Dust to the world. That's right, we watched a 4th Ruth Prawer Jhabvala film, this one based on her 1975 Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. But before we go back in time with our great-aunt Olivia to British Colonial India (and then 1970s India), we first have to talk about what we watched this week. And, honey, it was a lot.Goodman watched two Jon M. Chu's: the new film version of In the Heigh...

This is what remains of our three films by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala miniseries, the 8x Oscar-nominated (zero-winning), The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins, in one of his most intricate roles and Dame Emma Thompson, coming hot off her Howards End Best Actress win.But before we hang out at Darlington Hall (take that Downton Abbey!), we have to talk about what we watched this week.And, for Dre, he actually was watching Downton Abbey, the movie! He also watched Robert Altman's upstairs/d...