image courtesy of warner bros. One of the things people have talked about the most regarding The Matrix over the years is how it predicted the VR hype before proper VR even existed. When the movie ...

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When Gareth Edwards began developing his AI sci-fi epic “The Creator,” he had no clue his film would arrive as a trending topic. “When I started writing this in 2018,” Edwards, 48, said from a London ...