The Matrix director and trans icon Lilly Wachowski was funny and philosophical last week when asked by comedian Caleb Hearon about the “loser freaks” twisting her message in the classic trilogy to ...

Netflix has posted a Twitter thread explaining the trans themes in "The Matrix," after one of its co-directors confirmed earlier this week that the movie was an allegory for gender transition. Netflix ...

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Erin Reed was 13 when she watched The Matrix for the first time. In the mornings, she would log into internet chat rooms with a feminine screen name and talk to her online friends. Then she would ...

When The Matrix premiered in 1999, no one had seen anything like it before: kung-fu blended with philosophy blended with technology blended with epic romance. The revolutionary first film grossed over ...

As it turns out, The Matrix was a groundbreaking work of cinema in more ways than many realized. Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski recently revealed that her iconic sci-fi action thriller was actually a story ...

In 1996, the movie Bound premiered from a little-known duo with a very Chicago background. Lilly and Lana Wachowski had grown up in Beverly and attended Whitney Young High School. The pair made Bound, ...

The Matrix director and trans icon Lilly Wachowski was funny and philosophical last week when asked by comedian Caleb Hearon about the “loser freaks” twisting her message in the classic trilogy to ...