In 1995, cyberpunk legend William Gibson wanted to adapt one of his short stories into a low-budget art film. The result was a big-budget mainstream Hollywood movie, that, 26 years later, actually ...

Johnny Mnemonic is an American action sci-fi drama flick. The plot follows a data courier boy carrying an explosive data package inside his head, chased by a gamut of enemies who want to access that ...

It’s weird, then, that his novels and stories never translated to the silver screen before the mid-90s. Gibson himself had taken a pass at Alien 3 (though most of his ideas were quickly disposed of, ...

Angelina Jolie in Hackers, Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic: The fashion might look funny now, but a crop of web-themed movies weren't off base. In 1995, Bill Gates decreed the internet a “tidal wave.” ...

The future sucks. At least that's the case with this, the first of visionary cyberpunk author William Gibson's stories (a short taken from the Burning Chrome collection) to get the celluloid treatment ...

Four years before Keanu Reeves boggled minds with The Matrix, the once and future Neo entered cyberspace as Johnny Mnemonic. If you’re wondering who the hell that is? Fair enough, even though one ...

Keanu Reeves is in impeccably robotic form as a data courier on the run in this 1995 adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk story set in 2021 William Gibson adapted his short story for this 1995 ...

In the mid-1990s, Hollywood began trying to envision the internet (sometimes called the “information superhighway”) and its implications for life and culture. Some of its attempts have aged better ...

Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema. For last week's installment of Movie Gadget Friday, we featured a two-part ...