Philip K. Dick

Like Blade Runner and Minority Report, Total Recall was based on a science fiction by the paranoid pillhead Philip K. Dick—in this case, his short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Dick, for whom Carlos Castaneda, ...

By Ted Gioia Today, the film rights to a Dick short story can bring in close to $2 million to the author’s estate. But during his lifetime, Dick was so poor he bought horsemeat from a pet shop for dinner. His drug habit -- Dick would pop pills by the dozens -- also ate into his income, and fed his paranoia and ps...

By Daniel J. Stasiewski Dick’s work has been adapted before into cinematic masterpieces like Blade Runner and Minority Report and into travesties like Ben Affleck’s Paycheck. Next is a new low for Dick adaptations. It’s a hollow, hyperactive sham of a film, one that wouldn’t embarrass Dick, but should embarras...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) I’m predisposed to enjoy stupid sci-fi movies, usually more based on the ideas then the resulting execution. Next is based on Philip K. Dick’s The Golden Man. And as you know, this is not the first time Dick’s stories have been raped for big screen cinema. At least eight of his stories have been c...

By Webomatica What's good about A Scanner Darkly: love for the Philip K. Dick source material, some surprisingly appropriate acting from Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, and even Keanu Reeves, and certain key moments where the animation evokes the confusion and unreal moments of dru...

By David Pescovitz David Pescovitz: My friend David Gill, an emerging Philip K. Dick scholar, wrote this review of "Voices From The Street," the author's last unpublished novel: Philip K Dick is in the midst of a cultural ascendancy. The science fiction writer long-championed by devoted genre fans, freaks...