The Matrix is canon, its themes, style, vernacular, and visual language lodged so permanently in our brains that they're still referenced—and ripped off—today. Mostly this is due to the genius of the ...

Every once and a while, a film comes around that bends the mind of everyone who watches it, sure to make it a cinematic classic. In 1999, the Wachowskis' sci-fi film The Matrix did just that with its ...