Sean Patrick
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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Movie Review: 'Max Reload and the Nether Blasters' is Charming Low Budget Fun
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters is a whole lot of fun. This silly little gamer comedy is just the right mix of goofy characters and familiar teen movie tropes. There’s nothing wrong with a little familiarity and nostalgia if you do it well and the directing duo of Scott Conditt Jeremy Tremp do it quite well. They’ve managed to keep a familiar story about a kid learning to be a team player fresh with good jokes and funny supporting performances.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'I Used to Go Here' is a Delight
I Used to Go Here strikes deep into the heart of those who’ve reached their 30s and 40s and have not quite figured out where you’re headed. Gillian Jacobs stars in the movie as a published author who feels like she may have blown her shot at the big time by compromising her art for commerce. Jacobs’ Kate Conklin knows she’s a good writer but when she wrote her novel she compromised and added elements that were more commercial and less specific or personal.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Guest of Honour' Starring David Thewlis
Director Atom Egoyan is known for pain and deep emotional trauma. I once watched a friend of mine descend into a despair so deep while watching Egoyan’s The Captive that I strongly considered hiding the cutlery. Egoyan lingers on trauma, meditates upon it and explores it in the same way Civil War doctors probed wounds searching for unseen shrapnel. Egoyan digs in with his fingers and offers only a minor sedative via his deliberate storytelling.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'You Never Had It: An Evening with Charles Bukowski"
“This is where i f*** my soul” Charles Bukowski showing off his legendary typewriter At what point did Charles Bukowski transpose from beloved genius to accouterments? I mean this in all due respect to the man, he had a particular, spiky genius that is undeniable. That said, at a certain point, veneration of Bukowski became veneration of the self. Take for example, that guy we all knew in college, you know the one. Instead of Scarface posters on his wall he had a Bukowski poster and would keep well worn copies of “Love is a Dog From Hell” or “Ham on Rye” conspicuously at hand when company came.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'She Dies Tomorrow' is a Stunner
Imagine The Ring, or The Grudge or some other supernatural horror movie minus some goofy, black and white, glitchy, villain covered in goo. That’s kind of what you get with the new horror movie She Dies Tomorrow. Actress turned writer-director, Amy Seimetz, has crafted a horror movie without a villain. She Dies Tomorrow has blood and death and an eerie supernatural atmosphere but none of the other traditional trappings of a horror movie and it feels fresher for that reason.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Mo Better Blues' is Spike Lee's Least Loved Classic
Mo Better Blues is not one of Spike Lee’s most well remembered movies. The follow up to his inflammatory masterpiece, Do the Right Thing, Mo Better Blues is a complete change of pace. The film owes far more to Spike’s She’s Gotta Have It than Do the Right Thing. Mo Better Blues is a character piece, rather plot-less, but with an undeniable personality, life, and energy.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Good Movies Forgotten: 'Breaking All the Rules'
In Shakespeare in Love, the theater director Henslowe, played by Geoffrey Rush, described a successful comedy as romance and a bit with a dog. Jamie Foxx's Breakin' All The Rules contains both. It’s a smart, funny romance and has a bit with a dog, more than one bit in fact. It may not be Shakspeare but as romantic comedies go this is one of the better ones of the past few years.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Rental' is a Solid Directorial Debut for Dave Franco
The Rental stars Dan Stevens and Allison Brie along with Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sheila Vand (Snowpiercer), as two couples who go in together on the rental of an Air B and B for a weekend away. Stevens is Charlie and he’s in business with Vand’s Mina. Mina happens to be dating Charlie’s brother Josh, played by White, though the opening scene is a tad flirtatious between Charlie and Mina.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Female Trouble'
John Waters has become an icon of those with eclectic tastes. Waters is a fascinating personality and artist whose fame as an iconoclast may at last have surpassed his fame as a filmmaker. He’s written a number of bestselling books based almost entirely on his style and personality. Film is almost secondary to who John Waters has become in popular culture. This is not to say that his movies are or should be forgotten, it’s more an indication of how the art of John Waters has evolved.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Babysplitters' Can't Even Pander well
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories but if I were to subscribe to one, it would be one in which filmmakers were inculcated to reinforce traditional family dynamics. Any time a movie attempts to deviate from the norm and present unconventional types of sexual or familial dynamics, you know that this is merely a Trojan horse and that by the end, the characters will be in their loving, two person, hetero-normative relationship with kids that are genetically their own.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Families
Classic Movie Review: 'Some Like it Hot'
If you told me that I could only save one legendary film director’s career and the rest were to be destroyed, I would probably choose to save Billy Wilder’s remarkable catalog. Don’t get me wrong, I would miss Alfred Hitchcock or Michael Curtiz or Ernst Lubitsch but Wilder’s catalog has movies I simply cannot live without. The Seven Year Itch, The Apartment, Ace in the Hole, and Some Like It Hot are movies I could not think of losing forever.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Dirt Music' is a Hidden Gem of 2020
There is no reason to deny it, I am a sucker for a romantic melodrama with a great soundtrack. Dirt Music, the new movie from director Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly) and starring Garrett Hedlund and Kelly McDonald, is exactly that, a terrific romantic melodrama with a wonderful soundtrack of folksy acoustic tracks. I adored every single moment of this movie, even as I could feel the plot mechanics click-click-clicking away.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Humans
