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INCOMING MOVIE REVIEW
The teen sex comedy genre has had some truly classic entries in the past couple of decades, like Dazed and Confused, Can’t Hardly Wait, American Pie and Superbad. These movies focus on the coming-of-age experiences of teenagers, often revolving around high school and that one night where everything goes wrong before it all goes oh-so-right for our young protagonists. These films mix humor with the awkward, embarrassing, and sometimes raunchy moments of cringey adolescence, with plenty of sex, drugs, drinking, and kick ass soundtracks that encapsulate the era of their making. They are both time capsules for those who look back, and formative experiences for the kids who see them in the moments they hit the pop culture zeitgeist. Incoming is not one of these movies. It’s not even close to being in any of those categories, nor will it be formative for anyone who sees it, because it is abundantly clear that the people who made this movie have no idea what Gen Z is doing in their teenage journeys through this current moment in time. Try as it might, watching high school freshman Benj (Mason Thames) and his friends eagerly try to reinvent themselves in the first week of high school, and fumble their ways through one special night does not come close to being in the same league or grade as any of the aforementioned teen sex romps. And so, Melina, Jordan, and T.C. have watched this so you don’t have to.
DIRECTED BY: Dave and John Chernin
STARRING: Mason Thames, Ramon Reed, Raphael Alejandro, Isabella Ferreira, Bardia Seiri, Loren Gray, Ali Gallo, Kaitlin Olson, Bobby Cannavale, Scott MacArthur, Thomas Barbusca, Kim Hawthorne, Victoria Moroles, Kayvan Shai
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
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 writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.
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