I desperately wanted to see State Of Play when it came out. Sadly, it did badly at the box office which made me worry about the state of smart political films in the future. Can I ask who the other half of Reverend Rook is? And on the the Tommyknocker machines, they were great for some things but as I remember the female protagonist (read the book a while ago) ended up looking like a skeleton and being taken over by the Tommyknockers. If you could have the technology without the aliens though, we'd all be happy.