In the mid-1990s, Hollywood began trying to envision the internet (sometimes called the “information superhighway”) and its implications for life and culture. Some of its attempts have aged better ...

In 1995, cyberpunk legend William Gibson wanted to adapt one of his short stories into a low-budget art film. The result was a big-budget mainstream Hollywood movie, that, 26 years later, actually ...

Four years before Keanu Reeves boggled minds with The Matrix, the once and future Neo entered cyberspace as Johnny Mnemonic. If you’re wondering who the hell that is? Fair enough, even though one ...

Three years before the Wachowskis took us down the rabbit hole with The Matrix, Keanu Reeves starred in another, much weirder cyberpunk movie: Johnny Mnemonic. The Robert Longo-directed movie might as ...

A few years before The Matrix came out, the 1995 movie Johnny Mnemonic had already starred Keanu Reeves in a mind-bending tale of brains being plugged and unplugged like machines. Robert Longo's ...