This 1999 sci-fi film explores philosophical questions about simulated life with a maturity that its more famous contemporaries never quite achieved.

The Matrix (1999) film analysis and visual investigation by Erik Voss! Go to to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription. Did the Wachowskis' film The ...

The late ‘90s were a weird time. Home computing became increasingly common and the internet hatched into existence, still gooey and ill-mannered. As we turned the millennial page, technology promised ...

Editor’s Note: Rizwan Virk, who founded Play Labs @ MIT, is the author of “The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are in a ...

In The Matrix, humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality created by intelligent machines in order for said machines to use the humans’ bodies as an energy source. While that ...

Released almost exactly 20 years ago, The Matrix has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon well beyond the science fiction genre. While it was generally considered science fiction at the time, it ...

If you've heard of simulation theory -- the idea that our entire universe could be running inside of some sort of extra-dimensional computer -- there's a good chance you encountered it from a high ...

Building his latest documentary around impossibly big questions, a cheeky ‘90s cyber aesthetic and the words of visionary author Philip K. Dick, director Rodney Ascher explores the labyrinthine ...

Based on a sci-fi novel from the '60s, Rusnak's movie still holds its own as an on-point commentary about the current state of affairs. Upon closer examination, apart from the "our world might not be ...

The documentary “A Glitch in the Matrix” takes its title from a line in “The Matrix” (1999). “A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix,” Carrie Moss’s Trinity tells Keanu Reeves’s Neo. Two further ...