Tag: The Matrix Reloaded

  • The Best ‘Matrix’ Story Didn’t Take Place in the Movies

    The Best ‘Matrix’ Story Didn’t Take Place in the Movies

    With their ambitious sophomore effort, the Wachowskis wrote a new chapter in cinema history. Famously combining science-fiction, martial arts, anime sensibilities, groundbreaking visual effects, and thematically dense storytelling, The Matrix is one of the ultimate genre-blending exercises ever committed to celluloid. And while its three sequels struggled to compare in terms of quality and originality,…

  • All the Ways ‘The Matrix’ Was Inspired By ’80s & ’90s Anime

    All the Ways ‘The Matrix’ Was Inspired By ’80s & ’90s Anime

    From the beginning, The Matrix wanted us to ask a question: “What is the Matrix?” which was practically the tagline. Did the film’s creators, Lilly and Lana Wachowski, anticipate the deluge of questions to follow swiftly thereafter? “How does the Oracle know everything?” “Why are the pills red and blue?” “What does it all mean?”…

  • Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Succeeds Where Multiverse Of Madness Failed

    Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Succeeds Where Multiverse Of Madness Failed

    This post contains spoilers for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.””Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is a triumph, a true miracle of animation, and a monumental film. Watching it today might be the closest thing to what audiences experienced back in the 1930s when Disney’s animated classic “Snow White” first came out.Everything “Into the Spider-Verse” did (which was enough…

  • Across The Spider-Verse Isn’t The Empire Strikes Back Of The Series – It’s The Matrix Reloaded

    Across The Spider-Verse Isn’t The Empire Strikes Back Of The Series – It’s The Matrix Reloaded

    Spoilers for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” follow.There was a brief trend in blockbuster filmmaking in the mid-’00s that produced some of the most overblown sequels ever. “The Matrix” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies were initially big and unexpected hits, each of them rattling the zeitgeist in their own way. Rather than merely make…

  • Here’s Why Morpheus Looks Different In The Matrix Resurrections

    Here’s Why Morpheus Looks Different In The Matrix Resurrections

    “It’s the question that drives us. It’s the question that brought you here.””What is the Matrix?”And why does Morpheus look different in “The Matrix Resurrections?”With his pince-nez glasses, black trench coat, and measured diction, Laurence Fishburne made an indelible impression as Morpheus in “The Matrix” in 1999. Fishburne went on to reprise his iconic role…

  • So Is The Matrix Online Still Canon Or Not?

    So Is The Matrix Online Still Canon Or Not?

    This article contains major spoilers for “The Matrix Resurrections.”In the mid-to-late 2000s, after the back-to-back sequels “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” landed in 2003, the mythology and world of “The Matrix” carried on in an Mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) that was appropriately dubbed “The Matrix Online.” The idea behind this game…

  • ‘I want to get as much done as I can’: Keanu Reeves on poetry, grief and making the most of every minute

    ‘I want to get as much done as I can’: Keanu Reeves on poetry, grief and making the most of every minute

    He is one of Hollywood’s hardest working and well-liked actors. As the next instalment of his epic Matrix series hits the big screen, Tom Lamont meets the famously thoughtful starKeanu Reeves covers his face with both hands. Long bands of the actor’s straggly, jet-black hair flit from side to side as he shakes his cradled…

  • ‘The Matrix 4’ Guide: 17 Details to Know About the Return of the Iconic Action Franchise

    ‘The Matrix 4’ Guide: 17 Details to Know About the Return of the Iconic Action Franchise

    Eighteen years after “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” ended “The Matrix” trilogy in polarizing fashion among film critics and fans, Lana Wachowski is bringing the iconic action franchise back for a fourth go-around on the big screen with the upcoming “Matrix 4.” An official title for the Warner Bros. tentpole has not been…

  • Gina Torres Questions Why ‘Matrix 4’ Is Bringing Back Dead Characters and Not Her Alive One

    Gina Torres Questions Why ‘Matrix 4’ Is Bringing Back Dead Characters and Not Her Alive One

    Gina Torres appeared in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” as Cas, widow of the Nebuchadnezzar’s former pilot Dozer. A small supporting role, Cas and her two children helped put a face on the population of Zion, the last human city on Earth. Cas ended the original “Matrix” trilogy alive, while main characters Trinity…

  • ‘The Matrix 4’: The Merovingian May Return to the Franchise

    ‘The Matrix 4’: The Merovingian May Return to the Franchise

    “The Matrix” franchise will continue with a fourth film that’s currently in development, with Lana Wachowski set to write and direct, and Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively.The project has been kept mostly under wraps, as plot details are currently unknown. In addition to Reeves and Moss, actors…