It is a relatively quiet weekend for new movies in theaters. With a number of current specialty releases already vying for moviegoers, just a couple of new titles will join the fray. Among the highest ...

Without its animation, "A Scanner Darkly" would have made a fine cautionary tale about drug addiction, paranoia and institutional treachery in a foundering police state. But with a technique that ...

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 ...

“A Scanner Darkly” just might be Philip K. Dick’s most powerful story — an autobiographically based, cautionary tale about the ravages of drugs on both individuals and societies. Never out of print in ...

"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 ...

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 showing of the animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly will be followed by a talk with Sezin Devi Koehler, author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory. Sezin will give a talk ...

?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 ...