Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a bi-weekly basis every Sunday and Thursday.
SLEEPWALK WITH ME (2013)
Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Cristin Milioti and Mike Birbiglia
"Mike Birbiglia, who is a real dead-shitudinous boring loser nerd with no hope at all unless you count sleep walking as a hope. Even the usually vivacious Carol Kane is monotonous.
Mike plays Matt Pandamiglio and is a stand –up comedian, but he has no jokes at all! Somehow this is pretty funny, then he acquires a joke and the film gets slightly funny and a wee bit interesting but not REALLY interesting, but still I rooley rooley liked it.
It’s different, noice and unusual. Maybe I caught masochism?
Rating: 7/10
JACK REACHER (2012)
Starring:Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pyke, Alexia Fast and the dry old Richard Jenkins, whom Mugsy loves a lot.
"A multi murder-death-kill thriller where-in an ex-army creep does a mass assassination by sniping.
It looks sort of random but it has a deep underlying plot based around some industrial espionage.
It maybe a set-up and the shootist asks for Jack Reacher to come and solve the case and possibly save him from the gallows. Tom Cruise is fit and well and strong as Jack who is an uber mensche, an ex-military police-person, an ace shot and a nasty piece of work in the kung-fu trade, which is just as well for him as there’s lots and lots of shootings and car crashes"
Rating: 7.7/10