Review

Stardust - a short review

HarrangueMan - June 15, 2008 - 12:47am

It's out on DVD. Watched it tonight.

What a frickin' awesome movie. Right balance of plot, acting, comedy, action, drama and plain good old fashioned story telling.

Totally worth watching.

Cloverfield

HarrangueMan - June 8, 2008 - 6:13pm

Well finally saw it. Pick from the vid shop by theWife.

Have to say ... I liked it! Sure the camera wobbles got some getting used to but the acting was pretty good, special effects were neato, and you had just the right balance of hidden Vs disclosure on the roving maguffin.

Worth watching.

My Fair Lady, State Theatre

The View from Benambra - May 29, 2008 - 4:26pm

As far as I can tell, The Age hasn't even bothered to review this. Perhaps they think there's no point - people will turn up in droves regardless. Read more »

Arrowroots - now less boring

HarrangueMan - June 20, 2008 - 9:28pm

In Oz we have a plain biscuit known as an Arrowroot - a biscuit that is a common childhood denominator for many of us. It's up there with watching the ABC when you got home from school and dinking on your pushie (translation: giving a friend a ride on the front fork of your bike).

They are also extremely boring. They have no real taste. They are the biscuit equiv of water. They are marginally less flavourful than McDonald's cookies. Read more »

4th edition D&D - another review

HarrangueMan - June 12, 2008 - 8:23pm

This is a short one.

Minions.

This is a testicular malignant lump of a concept.

That is all.

4th edition D&D - a review

HarrangueMan - June 7, 2008 - 6:43pm

To those of you who are not pen and paper gamers turn off now. This is of no interest to you.

If I had to sum it up in one word I'd say it was "Poochie".

It's like the designers have decided it needs to be EXTREME and IN YOUR FACE etc. It's basically computer multi player game mechanics that have been rendered in pen and paper format. Read more »