Splash (1984)

No sooner had Australian Senator Cory Bernardi proclaimed that gay marriage would be the first step towards people having sex with their pets than the Gay Marriage law passed and The Shape of Water, that cinematic manifestation of all of Bernardi's worst human-beast coupling nightmares, was released in theatres, but in 1984, the world was already well along this road to destruction when the original The Shape of Water, Splash (Ron Howard's comedy about a romance between a human and a sea creature) proved so popular, it launched the career of little-known star Tom Hanks, introduced the world to the future Elle Driver, and was so light, frothy and warm that this very early death knell for world decency probably didn't even make Cory Bernardi blink.

★★★☆☆

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Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)

The superior second half of Quentin Tarantino's four-hour revenge opus continues the Bride's bloody quest to kill those on her Death List 5 and continues the director's trademark devil-may-care enthusiastic film-making.

★★★★☆

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Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)

Quentin Tarantino abandons narrative conventions and any concerns other writer-directors might have regarding style, taste and decorum, and has a blast introducing his Nameless Bride and setting her on her four-hour murderous path of revenge that was only at the last minute before its cinema release sliced into two halves as if by the swoosh of Hattori Hanzo steel; as it turns out, this first half is concluded in an even better second half, Kill Bill Volume 2.

★★★★☆

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