The choice has always been, relatively speaking, simple: red pill or blue pill. Swallow the red and it’s like eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil—suddenly all the universe’s dark ...

The Matrix is many things to many people, but I think it was most significant as a perfect escapist fantasy for those of us who grew up with the film. It's a world where your unsatisfying everyday ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

You watched the first trailer for “The Matrix Resurrections,” and so did we. If you need a refresher, you can watch it here. Caught up? Good, because we have a lot of questions that need answering. Of ...

In The Matrix, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) offers Neo (Reeves) a red and a blue pill. He tells him, “You take the blue pill… the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to ...

The 1999 film The Matrix is famous for coining the metaphor of the “red pill.” In the imaginary world of the movie, people live largely in a state of illusion, experiencing a completely managed ...

CK Kimball is a writer, producer, performer and sometimes stop motion animator who's been published in High Times, Fangoria, Nightmarish Conjurings and "After the Fall" an Apocalyptic Anthology. Since ...

We’ve admired the work Steven Richter for a long time. His pop culture sculptures are among our favorite works of art. That includes everything from realistic busts that bring Harry Potter’s Voldemort ...

In the 1999 film “The Matrix,” Morpheus gives Neo the choice of a blue pill or red pill. The blue pill offered the chance to remain in his comfortable fantasy world, believing whatever he wants to ...

Robert Wright describes a central scene in The Matrix in his bestselling 2017 book, Why Buddhism Is True: “Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne), explains the situation to Neo: 'You are a slave, Neo ...

Morpheus returns in "Matrix Resurrections," but something is very different with the wise mentor played by Laurence Fishburne in the first three "Matrix" movies. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, whose acting ...