In the sci-fi thriller "A Scanner Darkly," the main character, played by Keanu Reeves, appears as a hazy, shape-shifting mass of ever-changing skin tones and features. A reluctant undercover drug ...

Richard Linklater may be one of the most talented filmmakers today, as anyone who could make Dazed and Confused and School of Rock while also making incredibly innovative, if not a bit bizarre, flicks ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Another Philip K. Dick story has been adapted for the screen, and this time it’s by one of ...

The late Philip K. Dick’s science-fiction stories inspired “Blade Runner,” “Minority Report” and “Total Recall.” Now the prolific writer-director Richard Linklater is adding to the list with the ...

"What does a scanner see?" a character muses toward the end of "A Scanner Darkly." Whatever the answer is, audiences may find there's less than meets the eye in Richard Linklater's adaptation of ...

“A Scanner Darkly” just might be Philip K. Dick’s most powerful story — an autobiographically based, cautionary tale about the ravages of drugs on both individuals and societies. Never out of print in ...

Well, no one could ever accuse Richard Linklater of playing it safe. A Scanner Darkly may have a star-studded cast, albeit of the easily lambasted variety (Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr ...

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