Screamers

Screamers (1995)

Screamers first published by Little White Lies, as entry 104 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column In 2058, the mining corporation known as the New Economic Bloc (or N.E.B.) discovered a new energy source known as Berynium on the planet Sirius 6B – but when miners learnt that its extraction also released radiation and other pollutants,…

Scanner

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A Scanner Darkly first published by Film4 Film summary: Friends tune in and turn on themselves in this rotoscoped adaptation of the Philip K. Dick cult novel, directed by Richard Linklater. Review: It is seven years from now, in Anaheim, California, and Charles Freck (Rory Cochrane) has a bug problem. They are everywhere – in his apartment,…