OFFSEASON MOVIE REVIEW

After receiving a mysterious letter that warns her to come back to her hometown, Marie Aldrich (Jocelin Donahue) travels with her boyfriend (Joe Swanberg) to a desolate and seemingly Innsmouth-adjacent island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare. Something is going on connected to her dead mother (Melora Walters) and Marie’s hometown, which she never wanted to return to, seems like maybe it’s been Silent Hilled. It’s a slow burn of a thriller, covered in what I can only assume is all the fog from the East Coast. Reviewing today we have Jordan, Melina, Lewayne, and Chad. Does Offseason deliver on chills? Good question; why don’t you ask Melina how she really feels about this movie…

**You can also here Robert Garza and Chris Cox review the premiere at SXSW right here**

WATCH HERE

DIRECTED BY: Mickey Keating

STARRING: Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake, Melora Walters, Jeremy Gardner, April Linscott, Jonathan Medina, Eliza Shin, Jess Varley, Andrew Vilar, Larry Fessenden, Amanda Grace Benitez, Andrew Varenhorst, Anthony Azar, Ken Luzadder

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films, and everything in between. He was always a fan of film/television growing up, spending days in the Summer, making (terrible) home movies with his brothers. Little did he know that passion would carry on into adulthood. Since 2006, Chad has worked for several agencies in various departments. Shooting, producing, editing, production management, directing, and when forced to, writing copy. In 2015, Chad decided to take the big leap and become a freelancer. Since then, he’s produced content for Lyft, AT&T, Target, and Discovery Network. His passion lies in entertaining people, making them feel better, even for a moment. All the pain and suffering of this business is worth it, if even just one person views his work. Chad is a frequent podcaster, most notably posing as a co-host for the podcast “The Film Illogical Society.”

 

 

Melina Eames (Screener Squad)

Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.

 

 

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writ...