Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...

Despite being made almost 60 years ago, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” still holds up. Its groundbreaking special effects inspired George Lucas, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan and more.

In the spring of 1964, the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was very worried. NASA was about to fly the Mariner 4 space probe past Mars. At the time, he was deep in development of a blockbuster film about ...