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Sunday Matinee: The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World

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

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Sunday Matinee: Immortals

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

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Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Action Movie

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

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Sunday Matinee: The Challenger

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

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Sunday Matinee: My War

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

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Sunday Matinee: Hellzapoppin’

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

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Sunday Matinee: Delicatessen

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

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Sunday Matinee: Diablo

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Here’s a Western starring Clint Eastwood’s little boy, Scott, and that guy with the overbite who was on the Shield,

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Sunday Matinee: Hooligan

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Here’s a entertaining documentary about the English disease: hooliganism. It seems that in the seventies and eighties, a certain element

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Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Fantasy Movie

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This movie is like Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad visits Wonder Woman. Or something. In Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?), with English subtitles.

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Sunday Matinee: Dead Man Running

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Here’s a movie wid fiddy as the heavy. It’s pretty good. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: Reign of Assassanis

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This is a first rate Chinese sword fight movie. These Chinese martial arts movies are kind of like superhero movies.

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Sunday Matinee: Triple 9

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Here’s a cool dirty cop movie, with the MS 13 and Russian mafia. What more could you ask for? With

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Sunday Matinee: Redemption

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Here’s a creepy Western about a grave robber. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: Hmm

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I like to screen these movies before I subject you to them, but I’ve been busy, and I haven’t seen

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Sunday Matinee: Another Superb Western

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This movie is a parable of our time. Maybe. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: A Superb Shakespearean Western

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This movie features betrayal and a man with a code. It’s beautiful, in an ugly way. Somehow they loaded it

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