Like that line from The Godfather Part III, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” My wife and I have been attending San Diego Comic Con together for roughly 22 years, only missing it in 2007, and, of course, the year it was shut down in 2020 for COVID. As…
Tag: The Matrix
The director’s cut of “Dark City” (1998) is ‘tuned’ to near-perfection…
*****REALITY-BENDING SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Resetting Reality. The first I’d heard of director Alex (“The Crow”) Proyas’ “Dark City” was sometime in late 1997, where I might’ve seen the trailer and filed it away to be ignored later in my younger, stimulus-addled brain. Sadly, I was ‘one of those people’ who didn’t show this movie the proper…
“The Matrix Resurrections” (2021) takes aim at needless, corporate-spawned sequels…until it becomes one
The Matrix Re-Skinned? *****SOME SPOILERS***** Full disclosure: I am not the biggest fan of “The Matrix” movies. To some readers, that may sound blasphemous, but it’s true. I reasonably enjoyed the first film, though it seemed to borrow much of its style (over substance) from Japanese manga/anime (particularly 1995’s “Ghost in the Shell”–which itself was…