On a snowy Monday in February 2003, 19-year-old Joshua Cooke re-watched his favorite movie — Lana and Lily Wachowski’s mind-bending 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix — for the umpteenth time. Later that ...

Rodney Ascher's Sundance Midnight title uses cultural touchstones like "The Matrix" to answer the question: Is any of this real? Magnolia Pictures has released the official trailer for the Sundance ...

There are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by “The Matrix,” that the life we’re living — the people we know, the ...

One of the most talked-about films to emerge from Sundance’s 2021 slate is Rodney Ascher’s unnerving documentary A Glitch in the Matrix! You can read our 4-Star review of the movie, HERE. What if we ...

What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down ...

A Glitch in the Matrix premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It opens in select theaters and On Demand on February 5. Our reviewer watched the movie via a digital screener. Read more on IGN's ...

Sundance: "Room 237" director Rodney Ascher makes a strangely credible case that nothing around us is real. Rodney Ascher’s movies dwell on absurd theories until they start to make a weird kind of ...

'Room 237' director Rodney Ascher follows the rabbit hole of simulation theory in his latest documentary. By John DeFore After three feature documentaries, Rodney Ascher has certainly found his niche.

In 1999, science-fiction classic The Matrix welcomed viewers to a world in which the universe is actually an unthinkably complex computer simulation. While the concept itself wasn’t particularly new, ...

Allie Gemmill is the Lead News Editor at Collider. Previous bylines can be found at Bustle, Teen Vogue, Inverse, ScreenRant, SheKnows, VICE, and Atom Tickets. As if existence in this mortal realm wasn ...