Insipid, obvious, and frustratingly angst-filled, Matrix Resurrections whiffs when trying to make a point about the studio system and the current run of franchise filmmaking.
Choo-choo Choose You The “revolution” of the title is choice. Free will, the thing that separates humans from programs. Set up in the first Matrix when Neo chose between …
Hail to the Geek The Matrix subverted a dull existence suggesting an ordinary, generic office worker is indeed something more. It was a middle American fantasy, rebellious, loud, gun-laced, …
Wabbit Hunting To revisit The Matrix is to revisit Precambrian internet tech. Dial up and CRT monitors, pay phones lining sidewalks and cell phones that look like bricks. Despite …
Of 3D Printers and Monsters Compelling reasons exist to reset the mythos of Frankenstein in contemporary society. This update has none of them. It tries. The monster contemplates the …