But not once has his drug-flecked, shifting reality — or his deep and abiding humanism — been brought so completely to life as it has in A Scanner Darkly, among the eeriest, freakiest, most cinematic ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
Ten years ago, Robert Downey Jr. wasn’t the mega-star he is today, and the best feature-film adaptation of any of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking science fiction novels was Blade Runner, with little ...
"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 ...
In A Scanner Darkly, undercover agent Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) wonders, "What does a scanner see?" A scanner is a surveillance camera, and Arctor hopes the ones that have been installed in his house ...
"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 ...