“Open your mind!” 35 years of Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall” (1990)…

******TURBINIUM-RICH SPOILERS!****** It was on a June day in 1990 when my sister and I attended a matinee screening of “Total Recall” on opening weekend at yet another in a long line of multiplexes that no longer exist. As fans of director Paul Verhoeven‘s “Robocop,” we looked forward to the Dutch filmmaker’s latest American opus….

Does “Blade Runner” actually ‘Dream of Electric Sheep’…?

****SPOILERS FOR “BLADE RUNNER”***** ****SPOILERS FOR “DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?”**** The Book Like many sci-fi movie fans of my generation, I came into the late Philip K. Dick’s work ass-backward; from the movie adaptations of his works to the books themselves. One movie I’d become increasingly fond of, especially after its 1991 “Director’s…