To the '90s and Beyond! Film Podcast

Vince takes a detour from the MATRIX films to go into a deep dive into JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH (2025) — exploring the film’s core ideas, how it was made and released, and offering a frank review packed with trivia and production anecdotes. Plot synopsis: Set five years after Jurassic World: Dominion, Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) follows a specialist team hired by a pharmaceutical company to travel to the remote, mutation-altered Île Saint-Hubert to harvest genetic samples from its most enormous dinosaurs for a promising heart-disease treatment; the expedition soon devolves into a desperate fight for survival when they must join forces with a shipwrecked civilian family and, together, uncover a sinister secret tied to the island and InGen’s past experiments that forces harrowing choices about truth, profit, and the fate of the revived creatures.

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Film writer Vince Leo explores the nine-episode animated short film anthology, *The Animatrix*, released in 2003. Each short expands the lore of *The Matrix* universe. Produced by the Wachowskis, the creators of *The Matrix* trilogy, the anthology features contributions from various anime directors. *The Animatrix* offers a unique perspective on the *Matrix* world, delving deeper into its themes and characters than the original films.

It's several months after the events of the first film, and the last remaining human city, the underground bunker called Zion, is building its forces to take back the planet from the artificial intelligence that now dominates it. This same artificial intelligence has begun to dig to destroy Zion, and the resistance seems overwhelmed by the potential onslaught. The plan is now hatched to send agents Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) back into the Matrix so that they may destroy the mainframe that controls it, but it's not going to be easy, with the usual agents, a couple of ghosts, and hundreds of Agent Smiths (Hugo Weaving), who now seems to have the ability to replicate himself, on their tails.

Keanu Reeves stars as Thomas Anderson, aka Neo.  Neo works for a large software company, but is a computer hacker on the side, and quite a good one at that, selling off information for a price to anyone who might want it.  That is until one day his world is rocked when he is shown that the world of 1999 isn't reality, but actually a computer simulation designed to lull humans into a feeling of complacency while their actual bodies are being harvested and used as batteries for the artificial intelligence they helped create.  A mysterious man named Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) believes Neo is "The One" who will save all humanity, as foretold to him by The Oracle, so he shows Neo the truth about his surroundings and trains him in the ways of The Matrix in the hope that humanity can prevail against the machines.