Enhance, stop. Move in. Stop

One grows old. The Matrix is still wonderful but no modern employer would threaten to fire lax developer Neo; likewise the governor's car accident in Blow Out would be captured on every bystander's cellphone if not Google Maps. Twenty-first century disintermediation is the enemy of plot because in the classic thriller all trivia is crucial and all exposition is a distraction. Blow Out's Zapruder paranoia that a darker world lurks in a grainy frame is an artefact of film: digital would clean things up. (In Snake Eyes multi-cameras almost cracked it.) The mistakes in Brian De Palma's films remain for all to see. Watch them again and again.