Mugsy's Film Review #87: .45 (Point Forty Five)

.45 (Point Forty Five) - 2006

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Angus MacFadyen, Aisha Tyler, Sarah Strange, Stephen Dorff



"Real life stuff and once again in the back bars and working class suburbs of the Shitty that Never Sleeps.

Milla is a bogan queen whos boy friend is a bully boy brawler and a thief and a real pig-dog of a man, possibly the worst man alive, so her and her lovely friends do what they gotta do. With a double twist at the end Witch we all love!!"

Rating: 7/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #87



Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday....

Hot Tamale (2006)

Starring: John Hayden, Richard Riehle, Harland Williams



"A suburban doofus is a real good Timbalero (percussionist, Latin style drummer) so he goes off to LA to join a blistering Salsa band.

To make this review longer his parents didn't approve of him playing in a band!.. Sound familiar!! Don't play in bands kiddies--unless u real good but keep yer day jobs anyway! By sheer bad luck falls in with some bad guys and what ensues makes a real good movie, including falling in love with his very lovely girlfriend. "

Rating: 8/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #86



Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday....

The Sitter (2011)

Starring: Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor , Kylie Bunbury and the superlatively brilliant Sam Rockwell.



" A lazy clumsy middle class teen gets the unfortunate job of baby-sitting some ‘orrible rich kids, one of whom is adopted and is a right little demon terror bastard. SO He takes them on an anarchic midnite party rampage. Gets in more trouble than the early settlers and proves his own ‘street creds’. I love this fillum!"

Rating: 7/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.


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A Different Loyalty (2004)

Starring: Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett.



"Shazza leaves her jox on in this fair enough Hollywood version of the most told espy story ever. The legends of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby and his traitor crew of super Lefties being Messrs Donald McLean, Anthony Burgess and Ray Blunt.

Four Posh Pommy MI-Sixers ie Spies who turned ‘Injun’ and spied for The Soviets for a very long time and then finally defected. Later on some reckoned that Philby reckoned that life in Russia wasn’t all that good ….and that ‘The Bear’ couldn’t make up it’s mind about him after all.

His stuff was too good to be true actually…but… think what you will. Mugs has only ever been to Russia on an airport stopover and that was all-right….colder than a well digger’s bum but Vodka by the pint!!"

Rating: 6/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep...

(Steppin' Razor) Red X: The Peter Tosh Biography (1993)

Starring: Peter Tosh, Marlene Brown, Super Drummer Santa Davis, Sly and Robbie, Slick Mick Jagger, and Many Wailers



Made in Jah-Mek-Ya and not for the weak hearted!! A True Story done in Bio Pic format wid HEAVY MANNERS!!

"I and I Brother Peter MacIntosh was Bob Marley's teacher and first partner in music and went on to be a HUGE Reggae Star on his own feet!!

The Devoted Rastafarian and brilliant song-man superstar was also a great 'Nyah-Bingi Drummer' but a haughty, and uncompromising heavy mannered Dread!!

Change the Shit-stem and compo for slavery days was the message!!

This thriller of a documentary slash bio is very goddam sad but as usual riddled with charming Jamaicanisms. The Jamaicans give very good film!! BLESS-UP. "

Rating: 10/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the...

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (1996)

Starring: Melanie Griffith and Tom Hanks



"One of Mugsy’s favourite great movies that’s got nilly everythink!

Political intrigue, racism, billionaires, Black Preacher, White Leacher, Hassidic Rent Men, a white toff and a southern gal stuck in a very harlem part of town and Naughty Melanie as a Southern Belle in her Barely there Underwear."

Rating: 8/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #82



Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday....

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (1996)

Starring: Seth Rogan and Danny McBride



"Very funny silly bugger movie ha ha movie full of very funny very silly raving whackers!!

Seth Rogen is one hilarious lad but he ain’t Will Ferrell and some of his long tirades are racked with yelling and overacting BUT…seven outta ten means I can watch it again." 7/10

Rating: 7/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #81



Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday.
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CASINO (1996)

Starring: Bobby deNiro, and Shazza Stone



"Come for a nice game of cards with America’s Most Awful Family!!!
Great Film .. and!.. meet the effervescent Joe Peschi as Nicky Santoro…the host with the most !!"

Rating: 9/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #80



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BASQUIAT (1996)

Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Claire Forlani and some Hollywood Heavyweights.



"The life story of New York/Haitian modern art star Jean-Michele Basquiat who went from punk graffiti artist to famous and rich paintings artist with his silly headed buddy Andy Warhol.

Not a bad film, but he always looks like he needed a wash this fella, AND as Crocodile Dundee once said ‘I’m a drinking man myself -- but the bloke who dun this drawing ought to get himself to a meeting, Crikey!!"


Rating: 7/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #79



Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday....

STEALING BEAUTY (1996)

Starring: Liv Tyler and Jeremy Irons Bottoms



"Another rural Italian film of retired writers and painters where all they ever seem to do is have lunch and try shag each other." [Yawn! - Editor]

Rating: 5/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #78



Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday....