‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: A Powerful Love Story Allows Lana Wachowski’s Meta Sequel To Fly

Mary J. Blige has shared her thoughts on not being paid to perform at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show.The Queen of hip-hop soul is set to perform alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar during this Sunday’s (February 13) NFL showdown between the Cincinnati Bengals and L.A.

drill videos from social media, likening the music to Donald Trump tweets.In a press conference yesterday (February 11), Adams said he was sent a number of drill videos by his son, which he called “alarming,” adding: “We pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing. Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence, we’re allowing it to stay on these sites.”Adams said: “We are going to pull together the social media companies, and state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility.”The Mayor then specifically attached blame to drill music for a rise in violent crime in New York, saying: “We are alarmed by the use of social media to really overproliferate the use of violence in our communities… this is contributing to the violence we are seeing all over this country.

Elton John has congratulated an Olympic figure skater whose gold-winning routine was backed by a medley of the legendary singer’s greatest hits.During the men’s singles figure skating competition in Beijing on Thursday (February 10), US skater Nathan Chen danced across the ice to the songs ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘Bennie And The Jets’.After impressing judges with five jet-fueled quadruple jumps and a series of gyroscope-like spins, the 22-year-old, three-time world champion wound up taking home the gold that eluded him at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, validating his status as the world’s best male figure skater.“I never thought I would actually be able to make this happen,” Chen said of his win (via The New York Times). “It’s hard.

Alexander 23 has shared a brand new single, ‘Hate Me If It Helps’, co-written by Olivia Rodrigo.The sprawling indie-pop cut marks the return of the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer (real name Alexander Glantz) following the release of his 2021 EP, ‘Oh No, Not Again!’.Happy to be labelled a “bad guy” post-breakup in order for an ex to get closure, the song’s chorus hears Alexander sing: “You can hate me if it helps/ Make me out to be the villain/ Say you’re better by yourself/ So it feels like your decision/ You can tell ’em I’m the bad guy if it helps you sleep okay/ Because all you want is closure, but there’s nothing left to say/ So you can hate me if it helps/ You can hate me if it helps.”Co-written with Rodrigo – who Alexander worked with on her chart-topping hit ‘Good 4 U’ – it arrives with a beautifully shot, self-directed video. You can watch it below.This year looks set to be a big one for Alexander, whose yet-to-be-titled debut album is scheduled to arrive sometime in 2022, produced by Dan Nigro.He’s also about to head out on tour with John Mayer as support on the singer-songwriter’s ‘Sob Rock’ tour, which kicks off on February 17 in Albany, New York, and ends in Chicago, Illinois, on April 29. Yebba will also offer support.Meanwhile, John Mayer‘s first solo gig in two years was briefly interrupted this week when he was alerted to an audience member in need of medical attention.On Wednesday night (February 9), the ‘New Light’ hitmaker took to the stage at the Hollywood Palladium as part of SiriusXM and Pandora’s ‘Small Stages’ series.

Police patrols were stepped up in Falkirk town centre, including officers on horseback, as they dealt with "a number of incidents" on Friday night.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton shared an emotional post on Friday as she marked the fifth anniversary of the death of her late ex-husband, Robert Ashton. The popular TV doctor left fans saddened as she updated them with a throwback photo of her family, including the two children, Alex and Chloe, she shared with Robert. MORE: Dr.

Rihanna dresses up her baby bump in a shredded green top for the Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin party held at Goya Studios on Friday night (February 11) in Los Angeles.

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani wowed fans on Friday as they took to the stage for a special Super Bowl performance. The pair headlined the Friday evening at the 2022 Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, with Gwen taking to the stage after opening act Mickey Guyton.Exclusive: Blake Shelton's 'real' character revealed by Cassadee Pope to HELLO!The pair showed off their dynamics while on stage, as Gwen teased Blake about how she would “slice him” and that he would struggle to perform after her hour-long set: "Poor Blake having to go after me, but it’s my job to get you [the crowd] fired up tonight."WATCH: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton share rare insight into marriage after Super Bowl performanceBlake, who was the headliner for the show, admitted after his first song that he was feeling the pressure, joking: "Who decided to put me on after Gwen Stefani? The rest of the show will suck after what we just had."He later called on the crowd to sing along, quipping that he didn’t want to see headlines the next day reading 'Gwen Stefani steals the show'.MORE: Blake Shelton makes rare statement about being stepfather to Gwen Stefani's children MORE: Gwen Stefani stuns in waist-cinching dress as she celebrates exciting news with fans"I don’t want to make it a competition but I’m getting my ass kicked up here," he laughed.Gwen also appeared on stage during Blake’s set to sing their hit duets Nobody But You and Happy Anywhere.

GEORGE Clarke's Amazing Spaces fans are all saying the same thing after watching the shock transformations. Viewers of the hit C4 show took to Twitter after witnessing the home improvements.

THE Masked Singer fans are convinced that EastEnders' Barry Evans actor is Robobunny ahead of the grand finale. ITV viewers have insisted that actor Shaun Williamson who played the car salesman on the BBC One soap from 1994 to 2004 is behind the mask. Robobunny has left fans puzzled after cleverly disguising their voice during their performances.

DEATH in Paradise fans have praised newcomer Sergeant Naomi Thomas after she replaced Florence Cassell on Friday's episode. BBC One viewers were devastated after Florence said an emotional goodbye to San Marie and DI Neville Parker after her undercover mission came to an end earlier last month.

Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s theatrical-day-and-date release of The Matrix Resurrections didn’t wow in its 5-day opening at the domestic box office with $22.5M, while in its HBO Max debut in homes fared OK, watched by 2.8 million smart TV U.S. households over the Wednesday-Sunday period.

The Matrix: Resurrections helped her cope with grief after her parents died.The writer and director created the fourth film in the Matrix franchise after years of saying she didn’t want to add another instalment to the trilogy.Speaking to Associated Press at the movie’s San Francisco premiere, Wachowski explained what changed her mind. “I didn’t ever wanna make another Matrix movie,” she said.

When you look at the history of the “Matrix” franchise after the release of “The Matrix Revolutions” in 2003, there are several starts and stops where Warner Bros. was reportedly actively developing a new reboot/sequel of the franchise with an all-new cast and crew.

The Matrix Resurrections (★★☆☆☆). The words feel directly aimed, in a very meta way, at the fourth installment of a series that back in 1999 sent cinemagoers into a frenzy and launched a thousand theories about the nature of reality.Unlike the first three films, Resurrections is helmed solo by Lana Wachowski without (clearly much-needed) assistance from sister Lilly.

“The Matrix Resurrections” is now playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max, but it’s far from a straightforward sequel.

“The Matrix Resurrections.” The fourth film in the franchise, this time directed by a solo Lana Wachowski, enlisted Tom Tykwer and Johnny Klimek, longtime collaborators who have worked on Tykwer’s films as a director, usually with Reinhold Heil (everything from the pulsating “Run Lola Run” score to the sumptuously operatic “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”). Together, they composed the scores for “Cloud Atlas” (with the Wachowskis and Tykwer directing) and the Netflix original series “Sense8.” That’s when Tykwer became a part of “The Pit” – a storytelling collective that includes novelist David Mitchell and writer Aleksandar Hemon.

Note: The following contains spoilers for “The Matrix Resurrections”“The Matrix Resurrections” is here, and the gray hairs in Neo’s beard aren’t the only thing that’s different from the original trilogy.The fourth “Matrix” film – directed by Lana Wachowski, who co-wrote the screenplay with David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon – both acknowledges what came before in the groundbreaking original trilogy, but also moves the franchise in a new direction. And that includes a new Morpheus, this time played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.When it was announced that Laurence Fishburne would not be reprising his role as Morpheus in the new “Matrix” movie, fans were displeased.

John Wick: Chapter 4 will now be released in cinemas worldwide on March 24, 2023.The new release date was revealed in a short teaser from the studio, pushing the film back nearly a year from its planned release on May 27, 2022.Keanu Reeves will return to play the titular assassin for the fourth instalment, alongside Lawrence Fishburne, Shamier Anderson, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgard and British singer Rina Sawayama in her feature debut.Speaking about the film’s script earlier this year, Fishburne said: “As much as it’s the same world as the other three films, it’s just deeper.“It’s much deeper in terms of the code of the assassin and the relationship that he has with one character in particular who I think Mr.

As you approach the end of “The Matrix Resurrections,” it’s clear the film leaves the idea of future installments up for discussion. Can the series end now after this film? Sure.

A trip down memory lane. As he continues to promote The Matrix 4, Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore sat down for an interview at the actress’ namesake talk show, where she recalled a very special moment between the two: a time when he took her on a motorcycle ride on her 16th birthday.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? And in the case of “The Matrix Resurrections,” was the film first conceived purely as a way for Lana Wachowski to tell an epic love story, or was the meta sequel the result of boardroom discussions and urging from the studio? When you watch the film, you can’t really tell, as ‘Resurrections’ truly feels like a film at war with its own existence.

J. Kim Murphy administratorAfter directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski reinvented the Hollywood action film with 1999’s “The Matrix,” theatergoers were confronted with a cliffhanger at the ending of its 2003 follow-up “The Matrix Reloaded”: “To be concluded…” reads the end title card, before the movie queues up Rage Against the Machine’s “Calm Like a Bomb.” Then “The Matrix Revolutions” followed later that year, offering what seemed to be a pretty definitive conclusion to the series’ tale of humans warring against their machine enslavers.But now, after nearly 20 years have passed, Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) are going back to where it all began.

If you’ve watched every Matrix and John Wick movie, you may want to know Keanu Reeves’ net worth to know which franchise makes him more money. (Spoiler: There’s a massive difference between what he makes for The Matrix movies and the John Wick films.)

year in film, “The Matrix” was a wholly unique blend of cyberpunk sci-fi, superhero thriller and mind-bending existential drama. Director-siblings the Wachowskis went for broke with a dystopian nightmare about a hacker-hero named Neo (Reeves) destined to be a savior with the help of a band of rebels headed by cyber-warriors Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne).

The Matrix Resurrections, has said to expect “something completely different” from the original character.Laurence Fishburne played the elusive leader in the original trilogy from the Wachowski siblings, but was replaced by the Candyman star for the fourth instalment.Fishburne said that he didn’t “have an answer” as to why he wasn’t invited back for the new film, but added in an interview with New York Magazine “I wish them well. I hope it’s great.”Speaking with NME, Abdul-Mateen II has said that his take on Morpheus “is on a mission and learning some things about himself.”“I think he sees himself as the man,” he added.

Lana Wachowski is reflecting on her career.

Unless he has a super surprise cameo, Laurence Fishburne is not featured in The Matrix 4 aka The Matrix Resurrections.

The Matrix Resurrections,” he revealed.The 36-year-old said there was “heat emanating from his groin” while facing off with Reeves, who plays the main character Neo.“When it was over, I was like, ‘I think I wet my pants. I think I peed myself,'” Groff told Entertainment Weekly.

fourth movie of the needlessly prolonged franchise, coming 18 years after the horrendous “The Matrix Revolutions,” is “The Matrix Resurrections,” a descent not so much into Lana and Lily Wachowski’s ever-fascinating dystopian reality as our own madness.Beyond the initial satisfaction of seeing Keanu Reeves, whom we regularly watch in plenty of much better movies anyway, and Carrie-Anne Moss return as sunglasses-lovin’ power couple Neo and Trinity, “Resurrections” is aimless, vocabulary-filled, talky tedium.It’s set after the events of “Revolutions,” which had Neo pull a Jesus and sacrifice himself for the greater good while the Matrix — a digitized world that humans, trapped by machines, confuse for real life — is rebooted.

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss have teased what to expect from Neo and Trinity’s relationship in The Matrix Resurrections.Directed by Lana Wachowski, who helmed every previous film in the franchise alongside sister Lilly, The Matrix Resurrections picks up 20 years after events in 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions.Asked by NME about what makes the bond between Neo and Trinity so strong, Moss teased where their relationship heads in the sequel. “What I always loved about Trinity from the way Lana and Lilly created her was I never felt like she was ever exploited,” Moss said.“She was never sexualised.

Denis Villeneuve, along with most people who got early access to watch the film, pleaded with folks to see “Dune” in theaters instead of HBO Max when it was released in October. It was an experience that required the biggest screen and the best sound system available.

The Matrix Resurrections” is one of the most awaited releases of the year, finally coming to our screens this December 22nd. The film stars seasoned Matrix stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss and introduces a whole new cast of characters, including Jonathan Groff,Neil Patrick Harris, Eréndira Ibarra and more.

Jonathan Groff, being a part of franchise is something he's been thinking about since he was a teenager. Now, with, he's not only a part of the universe, he's one of the major baddies, and he couldn't be more excited.Groff walked the neon green carpet at the premiere of at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, California, on Saturday, and rocked an appropriately Matrix-inspired ensemble including a jet black suit over a black mesh shirt.«I feel incredible,» Groff, 36, told ET's Matt Cohen at the event.

(CNN)Keanu Reeves really committed to the latest "Matrix" film.During an interview on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Reeves said he and Carrie-Anne Moss jumped off a more than 40-story building for a scene in "The Matrix Resurrections.The pair are reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity and host Stephen Colbert asked why jump instead of just doing the scene digitally."Because it's [director] Lana Wachowski, its 'The Matrix' and you need natural light and you want to do it real," Reeves said. "I mean, there's wires." Reeves said he and Moss grabbed hands and leapt off the building - about 19 or 20 times."After the first time, you can't think of..

Keanu Reeves, 57, Priyanka Chopra, 39, and more celebs wowed while attending the premiere of their movie The Matrix Resurrections on Saturday night! The star-studded event took place at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, CA and the red carpet was on fire when the stylish actors and actresses posed for photos in fashionable looks. Keanu, who plays the main character, Neo, in the film, looked very handsome in a suit and red striped tie as he rocked longer locks and a beard, and Priyanka, who also has a role in the film, showed off a sparkly silver dress with a red fan-like detail across the upper front.