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Sunday Matinee: Made

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Sunday Matinee: Shield for Murder

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Sunday Matinee: Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

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Sunday Matinee: The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire

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Sunday Matinee: Dragon Eyes

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Sunday Matinee: 8 Assassins

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Sunday Matinee: Mafia

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Here’s a seventies blaxploitation movie that was made in 2012. Starring Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and the melting Terminator guy.

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Sunday Matinee: Dawn Rider

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Here’s a 2012 Western starring that guy from Mr. Robot and Donald Sutherland. Christian Slater. Yeah, Christian Slater. Check it

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Sunday Matinee: John Doe: Vigilante

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Here’s a story about revenge, kind of like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. Those folks in Australia sure do talk funny.

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Sunday Matinee: Wild Bill

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Here’s an award-winning story about family and sin and redemption, told with an Irish accent. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: 22 Bullets

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Here’s a French gangster flick (with English subtitles) and lots of blood and gunfights. A motorcycle car chase. Another gunfight.

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Sunday Matinee: La Descarada

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Here’s a 2017 teevee flick en español that shares insights into narco life, at least as many Mexicans understand it.

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Sunday Matinee: Assassin’s Tale

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Here’s an action flick with plenty of murder and mayhem and coping. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: Criminal

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Here’s a star-studded action flick from 2016. The movie features Gal Gadot, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kostner, Gary Oldman, and

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Sunday Matinee: Harsh Times

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Christian Bale is America’s greatest living actor. And here he is playing a semi-psychotic ex-soldier trying to find a job

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Sunday Matinee: The Assassin

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This movie from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien is gorgeous. You might be tempted to write it off as some Chinese

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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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