My three favorite Bonders, in order, are "From Russia With Love," "Dr. No." and "Goldfinger."

Dang, the original trilogy got you, huh Turnbull? I love the classics!

For Your Eyes Only is my favorite with Roger Moore.

Presumed Innocent (1990)

Well crafted intelligent courtroom thriller with Harrison Ford. Nothing spoon-fed like modern flicks. Well paid off at the end.

After many years I watched Patriot Games (1992) again, still one of the better thrillers of the 90s.

The Game

I wanted to enjoy this more than I did. I had high hopes for it since it's directed by David Fincher, stars Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, and has an interesting concept, but it doesn't really deliver on the concept in any meaningful way. It's hard to get invested in the movie and you never get rewarded for your patience.

Mad Max fury road one of the best films of the last decade.

I'm a big Fincher fan and agree. This is one of his worst films.

Underrated comedies

Let's Go to Prison
Employee of the Month
When in Rome

Underrated horrors

The Night Flier
Cube
Pin
Session 9

I plan on setting aside time to watch some of these again.

Most underrated great movie of the '80's:

True Confessions

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

In this typical '50's sci-fi, a space ship returning from a secret mission to Venus crashes off the cost of Sicily with only one survivor: Col. Calder (William Hopper, lethargic middle-aged leading man). A little kid finds a cylinder containing an embryonic creature called the "Ymir," which grows by leaps and bounds into a half-man, half-reptile looking like an oversized Creature from the Black Lagoon. It gets loose in Rome and ends up,in the Coloseum, after a fight with a bull elephant from the zoo. The plot and acting are ridiculous. The only saving grace is the special effects by the immortal Ray Harryhausen, which you'll recognize immediately.

I so remember that movie TB. There were quite a few of those movies back then and the special effects were primitive by today's standards. Loved them all!

BAD EDUCATION (2019)

Based on the real-life Rape of Roslyn, LI, Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman), superintendent of that Long Island town's school system, and his chief administrator, Pam Glukin (Allison Janney), embezzled $11 million in public education funds before being brought down by a reporter (Geraldine Viswanathan) for the high school newspaper. The acting carries this film well, with Jackman especially good as smooth, self-confident Tassone, revered locally for his results but leading multiple secret lives. Janney is a real New-Yawker, with a lavish lifestyle hiding in plain sight. Supporting cast includes three "The Irishman" veterans: Ray Romano as chair of the school board; Welker White as a school office worker, and Kathrine Narducci as a parent . Director Cory Finlay has a light touch, and the movie has many comedic moments, but they never get in the way of the message: Crime Does Not Pay. Pretty good overall.

Never heard of her. Going by the name I'm assuming that Hollywood are handing major roles to people based on the color of their skin now rather than any other metric.

Good to see affirmative action is going to decide how movies are casted now.

Soon there will be a Rooney Rule for acting insisting that there is a minimum of 1 gay, 1 lesbian, 1 transgender, 1 black person and 1 Asian person in a speaking role in every movie.

You would think movies would be the one place where you can escape from this shit. In a world where a Presidential candidate is making a woman his running mate for no reason other than the fact she's a woman.

Thanks for the review Turnbull. I have it recorded but haven’t found my way to it yet. Glad to know it’s good and worth the watch!

Moe, I agree with you, but this atmosphere has been preeclampsia in Hollywood (especially the last couple of years). Look at the remakes that have to feature feminism (see last year’s train wreck of BLACK CHRISTMAS) or any other remake in the last 15 years or so, staring minorities, that don’t bring anything new to the movie they’re making. Simply doing it to show that “we can to.” Or Hollywood patting itself in the back saying “look how inclusive we are!” It truly turns my stomach. People should be cast, hired, etc by their work or artistry - not their skin color.

EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956)

Another typical mid-Fifties sci-fi-er, but better than most. Rocket scientist Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Carol (Joan Taylor) get a mysterious recording from aliens hovering over their car in a flying saucer. They've been aborting rocket launches and hatching a plan to take over Earth unless science and the military can stop them. A familiar theme in this genre, but the Ray Harryhausen special effects are exceptionally well done, and the aliens' attack (and defeat, natch) on Washington DC is exciting. Marlowe and Taylor do a fine job, too. Very enjoyable.

Again TB, a movie that I well remember. I especially remember the ray guns they used to shoot down the saucers.

Crown Vic (2019)

the irishman. pesci did not need to do tommy devito or nicky santoro to be scary. he was very scary. i believe he was telling frank that if the hoffa thing wasn't handled it could be trouble for frank. remember he says to frank that both frank and his family are with him.

glengary glenn ross. al pacino was trying to pull a fast one on the guy. this movie has an excellent cast. love how ed harris starts laughing after finding out the guy's name is fuck you. the actual character was named blake. i also believe this is one of kevin spacey's first movies.

Hollywood was obsessed with ray guns and death rays long before lasers were invented. In "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers," the ray guns disrupted the saucers' magnetic fields, causing them to crash--a death ray by any other name. Then again, the saucers used retractable death rays to vaporize buildings, tanks, people, etc...

You know, if it makes you feel better, Viswanathan's mother is a classically trained stage actress who happens to be Caucasian. So now are you only half as upset???
Presumably the young lady got the role in Bad Education because of her success in Blockers and Hala and because people who are paid to be right about such things correctly judged that she was right for the part.
Even if you hadn't known any of this you coud have looked it up instead of assuming that because someone has a name of apparently non-Caucasian provenance that she must not have gotten the job because of talent.

Watched the dynamic duo of James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson in Smart Money. The story was not that interesting, but to watch those two cinematic giants together was a treat. I wonder if they ever appeared together again.

According 2 TCM, the pair were 2gether4 times..1 of which I know of is "Kid Galahad".

They both have such unique dialogue deliveries.

Cagney is justifiably a legend. but Robinson is probably the most underrated great actor in Hollywood history--and incredibly versatile, too. I can't think of a movie that he didn't improve simply by being in it, and that includes such dead dogs as "Cincinnati Kid" and "Soylent Green."

I used to love Biggie Rat, who sounded just like Robinson, in the old King Leonardo cartoons.

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)

This tour-de-force treatment of a juicy Agatha Christie mystery, directed by the great Sidney Lumet, features an all-star cast of seemingly unrelated, unconnected conspirators who kill a tough gangster (Richard Widmark) on the famous European luxury train. It's eventually unraveled by Christie's inimitable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney in a world-beating performance). There's plenty of dry humor mixed in with the murderous hi-jinks, much of it supplied dead-pan by Finney. Filming is luxurious, but it's a bit slow going, particularly at the end.

I've thoroughly enjoyed MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. Fantastic cast and a superior film than the remake that was released (unnecessarily in my opinion) in 2017. A great whodunnit. Did you happen to catch last year's KNIVES OUT? Another fantastic film very much in the vein of a modern day Agatha Christie and one in which I'm looking forward to the sequel. There's also a sequel going to be made to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS in DEATH ON THE NILE (another remake).

Both r on demand right now on TCM..Ann Margaret is ravishing (as usual) in C. Kid...