Usually, there’s a pretty clear delineation between the real world and fiction. You go to the movies, and you see a T. rex eating some poor sap hiding on a resort toilet and you know it isn’t true, ...

Charlie Tye receives funding from the Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy. The Matrix is among the most influential science fiction films of all time. Nearly 20 years since the third ...

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 ...

Lilly and Lana Wachowski co-wrote and co-directed the groundbreaking 1999 sci-fi hit and its first two sequels. Reading time 3 minutes Pop culture and political culture crossing paths is nothing new.

Lilly Wachowski, the co-director and co-writer of “The Matrix” franchise, hit back at MAGA members co-opting the “red pill” concept from her movies for their political messaging. The filmmaker ...

Lilly Wachowski has criticised right-wingers, including MAGA, for using a famous scene from her film The Matrix in their political messaging. In a recent interview on the So True with Caleb Hearon ...

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 ...