Most film historians consider 1999 a watershed year for cinema. Not only did more indie films break into the mainstream, but the scope of what a blockbuster could be began to shift radically. The ...

As Pantoliano tells it, he made the "mistake" of telling the film's writer-director siblings the story of how he once convinced The Fugitive director Andrew Davis not to kill off his character in the ...

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Cypher clearly has a problem with Neo from the start. When Trinity brings Neo some food, Cypher says, “I don’t remember you ever doing that for me.” The Oracle told Trinity that she would fall in love ...

Even before the planet was besieged by a highly contagious virus, many have joked, despairingly, about how perhaps we’ve been living in the worst timeline. Others have wondered if we’re stuck in a ...

There were plenty of movies that mixed science fiction and action movies made before The Matrix, some of which are great. However, when The Matrix arrived in theaters in 1999, its impact was so ...

The original 1999 The Matrix starred Keanu Reeves as a computer programmer who wakes up to find that his reality is not ...

Joe Pantoliano speaks during New York Comic Con 2025's The Cast of 'The Matrix' panel on October 12 As Pantoliano tells it, he made the "mistake" of telling the film's writer-director siblings the ...