The tension in Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi is that it is not very interested in the “science” part of the fiction. While his work ...

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 ...

Movies about drug abuse are generally self-important, didactic and awful. From Reefer Madness in the 30s to Steven Soderbergh’s well-meaning but preachy Traffic in 2000, most drug movies are enough to ...

Across a range of novels and short stories, written at a furious rate before his tragic death in 1982, Philip K Dick effectively created his own literary genre. It was no less than his version of ...

Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. How it nearly fell apart. The incredible behind the scenes story, told for the first time in Film Stories magazine. History is filled with filmmakers who’ve made ...

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 ...

A Scanner Darkly was, as he says, “from the deepest part of my life and heart” – it is bound up with his own experience of loss, grief and addiction. Yes, Dick was a brilliant thinker, but it’s about ...