Tag Archives: Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly. One From The Collection. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, Mitch Baker, Natasha Valdez, Mark Turner, Chamblee Ferguson, Angela Rawna, Eliza Stevens, Sarah Menchaca, Melody Chase, Leif Anders, Turk Pipkin, Alex Jones, Lisa Marie Newmyer, Ken Webster, Hugo Perez, Rommel Sulit, Dameon Clarke.

Watching a film adaptation of any Philip K. Dick story is likely to leave you scratching your head, pondering the meaning of existence and wondering if the directors have kept hold of their own sanity whilst working on a man’s work who was undoubtedly brilliant but whose words were riddled with the idea of a man searching for his own personal identity, even more so than any protagonist he wrote about in his novels or short stories.

A Scanner Darkly. One From The Collection. Film Review. full post

(863 words, estimated 3:27 mins reading time)

C.J. Sansom, Dominion. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

C. J. Sansom’s literary prowess is quite undiminished as he steps away from his famous creation of the lawyer Shardlake and the court of King Henry VIII and instead turns his thoughts to what the world and Britain would have been like had a moment in history fallen on the shoulders of Lord Halifax instead of Winston Churchill. Dominion is that toss of a coin moment in history in which Churchill doesn’t take the pivotal decisive step and take the office of Prime Minister and instead a new history is made and the whole of Europe, 12 years after the fateful Norway occupation, is under the jackboot of Nazism and Britain is suffering for her appeasement.

C.J. Sansom, Dominion. Book Review. full post

(529 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)