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Sunday Matinee: Swelter

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Here’s a movie about bad guys and bad guys trying to be good. We’ve all been there, right? With a

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Sunday Matinee: Get Shorty

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You remember Get Shorty. Sort of. Do you remember that Tony Soprano was in it? And Gene Hackman, Rene Russo,

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Sunday Matinee: A Company Man

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Have you ever had a bad day at work? Not like these guys. The company the company man works for

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Sunday Matinee: The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

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Here’s a classic cheesy gangster movie from 1996. With Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, and Keifer Sutherland. Watch this video on

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Sunday Matinee: Johnny Cash in Five Minutes to Live

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” And that’s pretty much the only reason to watch this 1961 rockabilly film noir. With some

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound

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Here’s a 1945 classic, starring Ingrid Berman and Gregory Peck. Hitchcock’s cameo comes about 43 minutes in. He emerges from

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Sunday Matinee: Beat the Devil

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Here’s a great movie with a great pedigree. Humphrey Bogart. Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida. Peter Lorre. Robert Morley. Directed by

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Sunday Matinee: Garden of Evil

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Here’s a pretty good Gary Cooper Western, with Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward, a little Rita Moreno, and Mexican actor Victor

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Sunday Matinee: The Wake of the Red Witch

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Here’s a John Wayne movie you’ve never seen. The Wake of the Red Witch features John Wayne as a sea

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The Quiller Memorandum

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Here’s a decent cold war era spy film, loaded with deceit and betrayal and Nazis and British agents. Watch this

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Sunday Matinee: The Sun Shines Bright

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Here’s this trippy John Ford flick from 1953. Here’s what one movie website had to say about John Ford: Among

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief

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You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For

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Sunday Matinee: Pickup on South Street

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Here’s a cold war era noir flick from back when the Soviet Union was a bad actor. How times have

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Sunday Matinee: The Rover

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Here’s a 2014 post-apocalyptic dystopia flick set in the Australian outback. No, not Mad Max. A different, more believable, post-apocalyptic

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Sunday Matinee: Sync

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Here’s a surprisingly decent movie that half Quantum Leap, half James Bond, and half Westworld. That’s right. It’s a movie

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Sunday Matinee: Kiss Me Deadly

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Here’s Mike Hammer at his glorious best. There’s a lot in this movie. A 1951 Jaguar XK 120 Roadster. A

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Sunday Matinee: Black Widow

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This 1954 movie’s got Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and a mess of other stars of yesteryear, in a

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Sunday Matinee: Blood Relative

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They say it’s a nail biting action thriller. Watch this video on YouTube The acting is a little wooden, but

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Sunday Matinee: Nightfall

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Here’s a 1956 film noir with some nice cinematography. With Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Annette Benning, and Rudy Bond. Watch

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Sunday Matinee: Fist of Legend

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Here’s Jet Li in a 1994 action flick. What else is there to say? Watch this video on YouTube Check

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