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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Released in 2006, A Scanner Darkly is one of many films based on the writings of Philip K. Dick. Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Winona Ryder, the film ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...