Author Nate Zoebl

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Nate Zoebl is an avid film lover since he was yea-high to whatever people are yea-high to. He's written film reviews since he was 17 years old and is a proud member of the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA). He is an active screenwriter, educator, filmmaker with the award-winning group Edwin J. Hill, one-time playwright ("Our Town... Attacked by Zombies"), lover of bad movies thanks to a childhood fed by the likes of MST3K, perhaps the world's foremost scholar on the movies of Dr. Uwe Boll, and sometimes collection of coherent molecules.

Dragged Across Concrete (2019)

April 12, 2019 0 38

I’m keeping things light in this review for the reason that I want you, dear reader, to be surprised by the many twists and turns of Dragged Across Concrete.

Pet Sematary (2019)

April 8, 2019 0 19

For fans of King, or fans of genre horror, there may be enough standard thrills and chills to enjoy the new Pet Sematary.

Early Bird Review: Us (2019)

March 21, 2019 0 5

Us is more a straight horror film and has plenty of excellent, terrifying, and smartly directed scenes to make an audience squirm in their seat.

Advance Review: Captain Marvel (2019) – Take Two

March 7, 2019 0 13

Captain Marvel is missing a larger sense of vision and purpose, which is why it feels more like a throwback to those early days.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

February 20, 2019 0 32

This visual decadence of Battle Angel is the greatest reason to see it, especially on the big screen if able.

Polar (2019)

January 28, 2019 0 57

Polar is such a thoroughly unpleasant film experience I was wondering if Lars von Trier had somehow made a comic book movie.

Bird Box (2018)

January 11, 2019 0 16

Bird Box isn’t a movie worth strong feelings, good or bad.

Aquaman (2018)

December 24, 2018 0 16

Ultimately your view of Aquaman will come down to what you’re willing to forgive in the name of fun spectacle.

Advance Review: Mortal Engines (2018)

December 13, 2018 0 18

Mortal Engines feels assembled from the many scattered pieces of other, better movies.

Advance Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

December 11, 2018 0 8

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best-animated film of the year and one of the best films of the year, full stop.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

December 4, 2018 0 19

Netflix might just be the best pasture yet for brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.

Blue My Mind (2018)

November 29, 2018 0 81

I cannot overstate how much I simply hate this movie’s title, Blue My Mind.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018)

November 13, 2018 0 66

The Girl in the Spider’s Web gets caught in its own formulaic web.

Suspiria (2018) – Take One

November 6, 2018 0 19

I’m convinced there’s a potentially great movie in Suspiria but it’s going to require a lot of excavation to allow it to see the outside.

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

October 19, 2018 0 8

It is no disservice when I say that Bad Times at the El Royale joins the ranks of the finest of Tarantino imitators.

Venom (2018)

October 9, 2018 0 23

Venom is a mediocre superhero movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be.

The Predator (2018)

September 22, 2018 0 16

Shane Black is going back home to revive the dormant franchise with The Predator, a big-budget sequel/reboot that aims for the stars and falls far, far too short.

Mandy (2018)

September 17, 2018 1 18

Mandy is overwhelmingly a campy revenge thriller that celebrates the unique Cage-ness of Nicolas Cage’s more unhinged, bizarre performances.

Peppermint (2018)

September 13, 2018 0 8

From a structural standpoint, you never get a great sense of where Peppermint is going after that 45-minute mark.

The Nun (2018)

September 12, 2018 0 158

The Nun is the fifth film in the series, the second spin-off film, and probably the movie with the least amount of narrative substance given its starting material.

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