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 ...

Richard Linklater may be one of the most talented filmmakers today, as anyone who could make Dazed and Confused and School of Rock while also making incredibly innovative, if not a bit bizarre, flicks ...

Philip K. Dick was an imaginative, troubling science fiction writer who died too soon in 1982 at 53. Dick spent part of his life in the drug culture. His book "A Scanner Darkly" is dedicated to his ...

?A Scanner Darkly? is a film that is groundbreaking not only in its supremely original animation style, but also in its political and social commentary. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel written in 1977 ...

A Scanner Darkly is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is ...

Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. both appeared in a cult classic sci-fi film by Richard Linklater, but audiences just weren't ready for it.

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 ...

The film: Last year, the original Slacker traded in his wistfulness and apathy for huge doses of angst, and gave shape to the sharp social critique that's been submerged within his work all along. On ...