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 ...

The late Philip K. Dick’s science-fiction stories inspired “Blade Runner,” “Minority Report” and “Total Recall.” Now the prolific writer-director Richard Linklater is adding to the list with the ...

?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 ...

Richard Linklater has been preoccupied with dropout culture since the earliest days of his career: in the loopy Slacker (1991) and the larky Dazed and Confused (1993) he developed archetypal ...

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 ...