Natalie Zutter, Author at Movie Mezzanine

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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Reviews

‘Aftershock’

11 years ago by Natalie Zutter

With Aftershock, Eli Roth is attached to yet another cautionary tale for oblivious tourists yukking it up in a foreign country, only to wind up in the most grisly circumstances made even more horrifying by their total lack of autonomy. The fact that Roth is pr...

Tribeca

Justin Zackham On The Universal Truth That Helped Him Write Romantic Comedy The Big Wedding

11 years ago by Natalie Zutter

Hollywood rumor has it that Zackham wrote The Bucket List in two weeks, so when I got to interview the screenwriter -- and first-time director -- of course I had to ask how long The Big Wedding took. He laughed and said that reports of his speedy writing had b...

Reviews

Dueling Takes on The Big Wedding: Color-By-Numbers Rom-Com With Surprisingly Dark Shading

11 years ago by Natalie Zutter

B/D+ With the romantic comedy getting increasingly tedious, recent entries seem to respond by either going back to basics or pushing the limits of the formulaic story into an almost meta commentary. The former describes Save the Date, one of my favorite mov...

Festivals

Our 10 Most Anticipated Films At The Tribeca Film Festival 2013

11 years ago by Natalie Zutter

With the Tribeca Film Festival kicking off in New York City this week, half the battle is figuring out which screenings to attend. Seriously, they hand out color-coded grids to attendees—and we find ourselves making our own personal flowcharts as well. Even th...