“Blade Runner” (1982, with director Ridley Scott’s “Final Cut” following in 2007) serves as a demarcation of child and adult movie tastes. I grew up
Completing a trifecta of 20th century English-language Philip K. Dick adaptations – following “Blade Runner” (1982) and “Total Recall” (1990) – is “Screamers” (1995). Interestingly,
“Radio Free Albemuth” (2014) perfectly illustrates the “book is always better” conundrum. The film fairly faithfully adapts Philip K. Dick’s novel (written in 1976, published
“Next” (2007) is one of those Philip K. Dick adaptations that comes off shallower than his source material because it’s stretched into an action movie
Books about an individual being pestered by an authoritarian government are often difficult to read because of their hopeless nature, and a sense that it’s
Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them
Writer-director Richard Linklater lovingly adapts “A Scanner Darkly” – Philip K. Dick’s 1977 classic about drug use and the drug war set amid a future
Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them
Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them
My sharpest memory from my first read of “A Scanner Darkly” (1977) was the very Philip K. Dickian scenario of a police detective investigating himself,