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 ...

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 ...

Director Richard Linklater's adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves. It was produced by filming live actors, and rendering the images in a painting-like animation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like most of the works by Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly has a very complicated under layer behind what the viewer immediately sees. The method used to bring this particular Dick vision to life is ...

"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 ...

“Everything in A Scanner Darkly I actually saw,” Philip K Dick once claimed. His 1977 novel is patently dystopian, as a narcotics officer ends up so deep undercover that he’s assigned to spy on ...

Linklater, you’ve landed lookers such as Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr. in your science fiction fantasy. What are you going to do now? Paint over their pretty faces to make digital ...

"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 ...