Apologies for lack of recent updates. I am at the bottom of what I like to think of as my 'creative cycle' and while I am crawling back up towards optimum productivity, I am catching up on things I have already watched and read. Expect something from me this week though, if only a film review or two. On the plus side, I have collected a large list of links over the past day. Which is just as well as it's been affy quiet lately.
- Steve Biodrowski reviews the pilot for the new J. J. Abrams series Fringe over at Cinefantastique. Is Abrams the most over-rated creative in Hollywood? it seems like everything he touches turns into over-hyped mediocrity.
- The SFSite has updated. It includes a double review by Georges T. Dodds of Mendlesohn's Rhetorics of Fantasy and Weese's Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural as well as a Paul Kincaid review of the Jonathan Strahan-edited Eclipse One anthology.
- There's been quite a bit of discussion of the work of David Foster Wallace. In fact, it has even seeped out into the mainstream lit publications including a nice n+1 piece by Benjamin Kunkel.
- Another interesting piece by Steve Biodrawski at Cinefantastique, this time it's a retrospective about the works of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director behind such films as Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and... um... Alien: Resurrection.
- Jo Walton at Tor.com reveals that she has read Greg Egan's Permutation City more than ten times and suggests that you should too. I don't think I've read any book ten times. I've maybe read Tibor Fischer's The Thought Gang four or five times but I've never done that thing of keeping books and constantly re-reading them.
- The Vault of Horror reports on the up-coming Spike TV Scream Awards. Apparently The Dark Knight is a work of Fantasy while I Am Legend is SF. Nice to see that it's not just the Hugos that have horrific ideas about genre film.
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