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9:00 AM Turner Classic Movies
Dick Tracy (1937 USA): The serial concludes with its final three chapters, in which our hero escapes a Fire Trap and is re-united with his estranged brother.

7:00 PM Cinemax
The Debt (2010 USA): Fans of ‘60s Cold War thrillers will be pleased with this recent feature about Mossad agents and the trouble they got into back in the day. The film tells a story of Nazi hunting in Germany circa 1965, then flashes forward to The Present Day, where retired Israeli spy Rachel Singer (goy Helen Mirren) discovers that the mission she undertook with fellow Israeli spooks Stefan (goy Tom Wilkinson) and David (goy Ciaran Hinds) may not have gone quite as swimmingly as first imagined. It’s an old-fashioned spy flick from Shakespeare In Love main man John Madden, though more stolid Ipcress File than flashy Goldfinger.

Sunday 6/24/12

1:30 AM Showtime Extreme
Rest Stop (2006 USA): We’re back in Frozen territory, people. Until 2005, not a single film entitled Rest Stop had ever been produced in the entire hundred years-plus history of cinema. Since 2005, we’ve had five of the damn things. So which one is this? Looks like it’s Rest Stop #2, a straight-to-video nail-biter about a young couple who encounter a serial killer and live (so to speak) to regret it. This is one of those movies that reminds you that you should never drive through Texas in the summer, but if you do, pee in a bottle and keep it in the car until you get to Houston.

Monday 6/25/12

12:30 PM Showtime 2
Smoke Signals (1998 USA-CAN): A wry comedy-drama of contemporary Indian life based on a book by Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals features Evan Adams as Thomas Builds-the-Fire, a homely, bespectacled type who inveigles himself into a road trip with perfunctory pal Victor Joseph (Adam Beach). Victor’s on his way to Phoenix to pick up the ashes of his estranged father, and grudgingly accepts his traveling companion in exchange for a free bus ticket. What follows is the most entertaining big screen bus journey since Midnight Cowboy, and the film benefits further from fine supporting turns by Gary Farmer and Tantoo Cardinal.

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