December 2010
5 posts
Tron
Saw Tron: Legacy on Boxing Day, fearing it would be awful. In actual fact, it’s a good movie. Putting Sam in “the games” as he first arrives in the computer world is a pretty thin excuse to throw in the disc fighting and light cycles that everyone knows the first film for, almost like the writers figured they’d best get it out of the way, there are a few iffy lines,...
THE PASSAGE
I finished reading Justin Cronin’s ‘The Passage’ last night, something I’d been encouraged to do by my agent (read it, that is, not finish with it) on the basis that, “The first third’s great, the rest’s crap*. But you could totally write something like this!”
(* He’s not a fan, to put it mildly, of anything SF-ish, so I’d expect him to...
