‘The Matrix’ trilogy – take the red pill on Max !Featured, Academy Award, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Max, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/24/202305/24/2023 Sean Axmaker The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.