Essential Films to See at Least Once Before You Die

The Matrix

The Matrix is one of the biggest cultural milestones of the 1990s and early 2000s. Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a computer hacker who believes that an elusive and dangerous figure named Morpheus can explain to him what the Matrix is. Neo is led to Morpheus through the underworld by Trinity, a beautiful stranger.

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The More You Know

  • Glitter is so unique it can be used as forensic evidence if matching glitter is found at the crime scene and on the suspect since glitter often goes unnoticed by the suspect.
  • An oyster's sex is fluid.
  • Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
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