Here’s a thriller that has almost everything we like: Mexico, occasional violence, and a little Vikki Carr. Watch this video
Category: Sunday Matinee
Sunday Matinee: Kill Me Again
Here’s a neo-noir thriller starring Val Kilmer and Michael Madsen, with Val’s wife-at-the-time Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. Watch this video on YouTube
Sunday Matinee: Murder By Contract
Here’s a killer low-budget 1958 film noir about a hitman. Check out the cars. Check out the proto-surf tunes. Check
Sunday Matinee: Flashpoint
Here’s a movie from 1984 featuring one of America’s greatest songwriters Kris Kristofferson, as a Border Patrol agent on the
Sunday Matinee: Kurmanjan Datka, Queen of the Mountains
Here’s a movie from Kyrgyzstan. Who would have thunk it? Here’s a quote from the Hollywood Times: [Sharon] Stone called
Sunday Matinee: The Card
In America, this 1952 movie was released as The Promoter. It features a 38 year-old Alec Guinness as Edward Henry
Sunday Matinee: Zachariah
Here’s a rock and roll, “electric” western “comedy” from 1971, featuring Country Joe and the Fish, the James Gang, Don
Sunday Matinee: Puppet on a Chain
Here’s a 1971 movie based on an Alistair Maclean novel. The story takes a cop from the U.S. to Amsterdam
Sunday Matinee: Bridge of Spies
Here’s a 2015 instant classic, Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.
Sunday Matinee: Confessions of a Samurai
Here’s a Russian-Japanese movie about a yakuza gangster who becomes an orthodox priest and moves to Russia to escape his
Sunday Matinee: The Last Witch Hunter
This Vinn Diesel vehicle gets mixed reviews. Roger Ebert gave it three out of four. But don’t let him make
Sunday Matinee Double Feature: La Ley de Herodes and La Dictadura Perfecta
If you want to understand Mexico, here’s a good place to start. La Ley de Herodes tells the story of
Sunday Matinee: Humphrey Bogart in Last Edition USA
Here’s a good flick, with Humphrey Bogart starring as the editor of a failing newspaper. The movie is all full
Sunday Matinee: Killer Elite
Robert DeNiro and Jason Statham star as professional killers hired to take on the SAS. What could go wrong? Watch
Sunday Matinee: Indiscreet
How long has it been since you’ve seen a movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant? Indiscreet is the second
Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious
Here’s a 1946 flick that has everything: drunk driving, violence, smoking in bed. And the OSS pimping out a chick
Sunday Matinee: The Vikings
Here’s the 1958 classic The Vikings, starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, and Janet Leigh. Watch this video on
Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Steps
Here is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic The 39 Steps. Watch this video on YouTube Wikipedia reports that the director’s cameo
Sunday Matinee: Deadlier Than the Male
Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not
Sunday Matinee: Agent 505: Death Trap Beirut
Here’s one of those cartoonish James Bond secret agent knockoffs that I cut my milk teeth on. Watch this video