Category: Sunday Matinee

Here’s a Russian-Japanese movie about a yakuza gangster who becomes an orthodox priest and moves to Russia to escape his

This Vinn Diesel vehicle gets mixed reviews. Roger Ebert gave it three out of four. But don’t let him make

If you want to understand Mexico, here’s a good place to start. La Ley de Herodes tells the story of

Robert DeNiro and Jason Statham star as professional killers hired to take on the SAS. What could go wrong? Watch

How long has it been since you’ve seen a movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant? Indiscreet is the second

Here’s a 1946 flick that has everything: drunk driving, violence, smoking in bed. And the OSS pimping out a chick

Here’s the 1958 classic The Vikings, starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, and Janet Leigh. Watch this video on

Here is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic The 39 Steps. Watch this video on YouTube Wikipedia reports that the director’s cameo

Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not

Here’s one of those cartoonish James Bond secret agent knockoffs that I cut my milk teeth on. Watch this video

This made-for-teevee Western stars Don Johnson with a little bit of Rod Steiger thrown in for good measure. It’s nice,

Sorry I’m late. I got caught in internet traffic. Ferrum is some kind of existential Russian gangster art flick. I

In the sixties, various studios came out with James Bond knockoffs. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of spy and secret

Here’s a movie about Greek gods and mortals and a magic bow. Everything you could want in a movie except

Here’s some Chinese action movie, dubbed in English. Lots of bow and arrow gunfights. Spoiler Alert: The Manchurians are real

Here’s a boxing movie. It’s pretty good. Check it out.

Here’s a Chinese war movie about the Korean War, where the Chinese are the good guys, and the bad guys

Here’s a zany 1941 slapstick comedy based on a long-running Broadway show. It’s a wacky spectacular example of burlesque comedy

Have you seen this flick? It’s kind of an art movie, or something. IMDb calls it a “post-apocalyptic black comedy.”