Franchise Friday: The Matrix (1999)

The Wachoskis' sci-fi epic still brings the 'whoa.'

I talked about this a bit in a “We’re Watching Here” episode about 1999, but if that was the year that movies broke my brain, The Matrix was the film that first drilled a hole in my head. When I stepped into the theater that first Saturday afternoon of release, I expected nothing more than a fun bit of action. I left with my jaw agape and my mind blown,…