Blade Runner is a science-fiction film that leaves us questioning reality and our own morality. During its release, it flopped and didn’t do very well at the box office but over the years, opinions about the movie became more positive and it eventually helped influence other films and pop culture. The visuals and his development…

The Shining is Stanley Kubrick’s movie adaption of Stephen King’s novel, and Kubrick adapts his own style to develop a horror film that didn’t follow the typical conventions of the genre. The movie does move along at a painstakingly slow pace during some scenes, and if it wasn’t for the tense music that accompanies scenes…

It is weird to think that a movie like Bonnie and Clyde would have been unacceptable if it had been put into theaters even a couple years earlier. The type of violence that shocked audiences when they first saw it in 1967 and caused critics to rate the movie R is common now in just…

The Conversation was released on April 7, 1974, and the use of surveillance to spy and invade one’s privacy is one of the core concepts of the movie. It expanded the public’s perspective on how the advancement of technology has reduced our ability to control what stays private. It is scarier now because almost all…