Natalie Zutter | Movie Mezzanine - Part 3

Natalie Zutter

Natalie Zutter is a playwright, comics writer, and pop culture blogger. Her writing has appeared on Crushable, Ology, and Tor.com, where she discusses fandom and Internet memes alongside celebrity culture (or vice versa). She is a weekly panelist on the Hunger Games Fireside Chat podcast and a co-host for KoPoint’s AFK On Air podcast. She is the co-creator/writer of Leftovers, a horror-comedy webcomic about food trucks in the zombie apocalypse. You can also find her short comics published in The Gathering: Sci Fi 2 and Whirr Whirr Whirr anthologies in 2013. You can follow her on Tumblr. Follow on Twitter.

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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Die Hard vs. Every Reference to ‘Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf–ker’

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...

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Reviews

Would You Rather: A Solid Thriller That Will Challenge Your Mind and Your Constitution

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

B We're used to "Would You Rather" as a sexually puerile party game, but with IFC Films' new release of the same name, suddenly there are real stakes and grisly consequences. Iris (Brittany Snow) is a bright, tenacious young woman beaten down by her cancer-...

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Interviews

Interview: How Jeffrey Combs Crafted The Psyche Of Would You Rather’s Villain Shepard Lambrick

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

When it comes to a movie like the new indie Would You Rather, you need a strong actor who's as committed to the radical premise as the filmmakers want you the audience to be. This thriller stars Brittany Snow as Iris, a young woman drowning in medical bills, w...

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Movie Mettle: Five Ridiculous Movie Premises To Test Your Limits

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...

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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: The Usual Suspects vs. Every Reference To Keyser Söze Ever

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...

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Movie Mettle: 5 Food and Sex Scenes To Test Your Limits

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...

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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Scream vs. Boy Meets World

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...

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Interviews

Interview: Supporting Characters Writer-Director Daniel Schechter On Making An Autobiographical Indie Drama Without Descending To Vanity Project

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

To be honest, I had never heard of the new indie Supporting Characters, about film editor team Nick (Girls' Alex Karpovsky) and Daryl (Tarik Lowe) struggling to save a flagging indie film while also living vicariously through each other's romantic relationship...

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Movie 43: A Bigger Waste Of The Audience’s Money Or The Actors’ Time?

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

D- I'm usually very forgiving with bad movies. My top 10 list each year usually includes one stinker because I value pure entertainment, even if that means I'm screaming with disgust or laughing at wooden acting. But not even I can pardon Movie 43, the utte...

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Movie Mettle: 5 Unrealistic Movie Musical Numbers To Test Your Limits

12 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...