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The 5 best Keanu Reeves movies to stream, from The Matrix to Bill & Ted

It’s time to stream some Keanu Reeves movies. John Wick would be proud if you did.

Keanu Reeves has spent a career’s worth in Hollywood thrilling audiences with some of the best action movies of anyone’s generation.

From battling machines in The Matrix to saving passengers aboard a runaway bus in Speed, Reeves is one of the most trusted movie stars around when it comes to action-packed cinema.

His latest film, John Wick: Chapter 4, is now playing in theaters nationwide.

The next installment in the assassin-filled action saga has debuted to stellar reviews as Reeves now gets another chance to implement his signature brand of Wick-y justice on those who try to defeat him.

If you need to catch up on the series, the first three John Wick movies are available to stream on Peacock.

As you get into the John Wick spirit, what are some other Keanu Reeves films that you can check out on streaming?

Travis Kelce showed he has his priorities right with answer about his brother’s wife’s near full-term pregnancy

Is this Jason Kelce’s Matrix?

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce used a movie reference to help describe what might happen if his brother’s wife goes into labor during Super Bowl 57.

As you’ve heard, Jason Kelce and the Philadelphia Eagles will face off against Travis Kelce and the Chiefs on Sunday for the Lombardi. However, much more important is the fact that Kylie Kelce is expecting her and Jason Kelce’s new baby.

There is a possibility that Kylie Kelce could go into labor during the game, which is why Jason Kelce said she’ll be attending the game with her OB-GYN.

During Monday’s Super Bowl opening night, Travis Kelce shared that his brother will be running the world if his wife goes into labor during the big game, drawing a metaphor from the 1999 sci-fi/action classic The Matrix to make his point.

Hey, we might already be in Jason Kelce’s Matrix as far as we know. That’s the point of The Matrix, after all.

As special as it would be to win a Super Bowl and add a new member of your family on the same day, we’re betting the Kelce family wouldn’t mind having a little breathing room between both huge milestones.

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The Matrix Resurrections debuts all-new trailer at The Game Awards 2021

“Nothing comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia.”

Despite its status as an event focused on video games, The Game Awards 2021 just debuted the latest trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, the long-awaited follow-up to the Wachowskis’ illustrious film series slated for release later this month. 

While that might seem a little odd at face value, it makes sense when considered in tandem with The Matrix Awakens, an ambitious new video game project that was also shown during tonight’s event. The fact that Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) from the original movies appear in both Awakens and Resurrections is just the first of an entire web of links connecting the two. 

While Resurrections is a traditional film in the same vein as The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Awakens is a high-brow concept designed for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. It’s intended to represent a simulation of the titular Matrix and what it means in the films it’s a part of, while also informing the plot of Resurrections itself, which, at this point, you’ll probably know includes The Game Awards as part of its core narrative. Yeah, we think it’s pretty weird too. 

As you can see in the latest trailer, The Matrix Resurrections is just as cryptic as you’d imagine, playing with your expectations and just that little bit of nostalgia. And yes, even though we see Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus in the form of memories, the reason he may not actually exist in this film is thanks to a niche video game.

The Matrix Resurrections is due to air in cinemas on Dec. 22. It will also be available to stream for HBO subscribers in the US for a month from that date.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF. 

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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will be at The Game Awards

Neo and Trinity together again.

The Game Awards will reunite Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss when the show goes live on Dec. 9.

Yes, nearly two decades after The Matrix Reloaded’s  curtain call, Reeves and Moss will be at  Geoff Keighley’s big show  to promote The Matrix Resurrections. Now you might be wondering why a couple of big-name Hollywood actors are doing at an award show dedicated to video games. The truth is, we don’t know! 

It wouldn’t be the first time celebrities from other entertainment industries show up at The Game Awards for reasons that seem to have nothing to do with actual video games. However, some alleged leaks may be hinting at why they’re going to be there.

As first spotted by Eurogamer, there appears to be something called The Matrix Awakens  in the works. User the_andshrew over on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit first noticed whatever this is on the PSN backend. Take a look at the alleged promotion art for yourself below.

Whatever this is, it may not be a full-on video game. The “Unreal Engine 5 experience” subheading suggests this might something else. Epic Games, the folks behind Unreal Engine, recently worked with Radiohead on the KID A MNESIA Exhibition, a digital art exhibit on PC and PS5. So The Matrix Awakens could be something similar.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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‘No’ – Keanu Reeves when asked if Neo should be in Mortal Kombat

Neo won’t test his might.

Keanu Reeves isn’t keen on the idea of his characters being in Mortal Kombat.

During an interview with Esquire, Reeves took the time to answer some burning fan questions. One of which asked whether or not he would be into the idea of either Neo from The Matrix  or John Wick from the John Wick  films being guest characters in a Mortal Kombat  game. 

“If it was up to me? No,” Reeves said  via Esquire. “Mortal Kombat  is awesome in so many ways. But I think, you know, Neo, John Wick… Yeah, man, they’re doing their own thing. Mortal Kombat’s  doing their own thing.”

The Matrix Resurrections  star sure didn’t mince words. Ed Boon will be heartbroken. 

Mortal Kombat  has a long, storied history of crossovers with famous film characters. On several occasions, Jason Voorhees, the Predator, Rambo, RoboCop, and loads more have clashed steel with Scorpion and Sub Zero. Shame that Neo himself isn’t into the idea of stepping into Outworld, though.

Crossovers are all the rage in video games these days. League of Legends  is doing crossovers with Among us. Call of Duty is likely crossing over with Attack on Titan. Fortnite does crossovers with  every brand in the known universe.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Laurence Fishburne might not be in ‘Matrix Resurrections’ because Morpheus died in a video game

This gets weird real fast.

Ever heard of a video game called The Matrix Online? You probably haven’t, since it was an MMORPG based on The Matrix that shut down over a decade ago. The thing is, this long-forgotten game might be the reason why Laurence Fishburne didn’t appear in the new Matrix Resurrections trailer.

“I am not in the next Matrix movie,” Fishburne said via Collider. “You would have to ask Lana Wachowski why because I don’t have an answer for that.” 

Well, the reason for Fishburne’s absence might be due to Morpheus, his character from the series, getting killed off in The Matrix Online. Yes, a video game that you can’t even play anymore might be why Fishburne isn’t reprising what is arguably his most iconic role. 

Check out the scene in question from The Matrix Online where Morpheus gets killed for yourself below.

Taking place after the original film trilogy, The Matrix Online was to be a continuation of the series various storylines. It’s supposedly to be canon, according to none other than the Wachowskis themselves.

 “Our films were never intended for a passive audience,” the Wachowskis said via IGN back in 2005. “Yet the fact that the Matrix films are three of the most successful adult films in history suggests that there are other people like us. Those are the people, the people who thought about it, who worked at it, who we ultimately made the trilogy for, and it now makes perfect sense to us that they should inherit the storyline.”

They continued: “For us, the idea of watching our baby evolve inside the virtual bubble-world of this new radically developing medium, which has in our opinion the potential of combining the best attributes of films and games, of synthesizing reality TV with soap opera, RPGs and Mortal Combat, is fantastically exciting.”

So there you have it: The Matrix Online might be why Morpheus, and by extension Laurence Fishburne, isn’t in The Matrix Resurrections. 

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There’s 1 HUGE question the new ‘Matrix Resurrections’ trailer doesn’t answer (but here’s a theory)

Wake up again, Neo.

WARNING: IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS AND WOULD LIKE TO NOT HAVE THAT SPOILED, PLEASE STOP READING.

Ready?

OK.

On Thursday, the trailer for The Matrix Ressurections dropped, and as someone who absolutely loved the first movie but was disappointed by the sequel and third flick, this one has some promise to it.

But there’s one question the trailer doesn’t answer.

At the end of Revolutions, Neo is dead in Machine City and the real version of him is carried away.

So … how does Neo come back? We don’t know thanks to the trailer, which looks super cool:

Clearly, Neo is stuck in the Matrix again and has to take the red pill to find his way back to the actual real world. Got it.

But our clue is the title of the film, which plugs in (pun intended) to the religious themes we’ve seen throughout the first three movies: My guess is that the machines or … someone? … are able to resurrect Neo, plug him back into the Matrix and get him ready for another battle against agents.

Which also reminds me: Trinity is dead too! And there she is in the trailer! So … there are a lot of resurrections coming, apparently.

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