Philip K. Dick Reviews, Analysis and Opinions - Boxxet

My Own Worst Enemy - Eleventh Hour -- New York Magazine TV Review

18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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, ...

Original story at New York Magazine .

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Book Review: Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick

14 May 2007 19:24:14 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Movie Review: Next

29 Apr 2007 11:44:05 PDT

Written 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...

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Movie Review: Next

27 Apr 2007 06:30:23 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at /FILM .

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Movie Review: A Scanner Darkly - Style Over Substance D

07 Apr 2007 21:39:50 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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David Gill reviews Philip K. Dick's new old novel

19 Mar 2007 15:22:44 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Boing Boing .

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