Joshua Hull’s Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, available today, is a wonderful peek into a movie history that never actually happened, detailing productions that fell apart at various stages in the Hollywood pipeline. Some of these are well-known studies in what could have been, while others have been less discussed on Film Twitter…

“He’s scraping at the door … and I’m gonna let him out.” – Johnny Blaze, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” This year will see the release of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” starring Nicolas Cage in the one conceivable role he hasn’t yet tackled: himself. Leading up to the opening of this house of…

There were very few if any upsides to what the COVID-19 pandemic did to our lives, including the shutdown of most movie theaters. But now that vaccines are plentiful and accessible to most of us, film fans will be able to gather en masse safely and enjoy a wide-screen communal experience again. Once ticket-buyers return,…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of of “MZS 30,” a series of reprints that amount to a cross-section of Matt Zoller Seitz’s thirty years as a film critic. They are reprinted in their entirety with introductions contextualizing them in their time and place, and critiquing them from the standpoint of where the writer is today. Thirty years ago this…

A near-future dystopia that navigates a fractured society hours away from collapse, Michel Franco’s “New Order” is a relentless and blood-soaked study of social injustice, gripping to watch despite its graphic and escalating brutality. Sadly, it’s also one that only vaguely engages with the need for prosperity for all. That imprecision is so intense that…