When The Matrix hit the cinemas back in 1999 it started a minor revolution with its use of so-called “Bullet time” — a freeze-frame technique in which the action could move round a ...

Will Smith explained how confusion over "The Matrix" screenplay led him to pass on the role of Neo after a weird pitch by the directors.

Bullet time became the hottest new cinema effect after it burst on the scene in The Matrix (1999). Back then, the cutting edge special effects required serious hardware and serious processing ...

Watch Smith in the music video for "Beautiful Scars," where the actor-rapper finally gets to take the red pill.

While we're not quite living in "The Matrix" — at least in a falsifiable sense — it seems that something comparable to the film's legendary slowed-down "bullet time" sequence can, under the ...