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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Classic Movie Review: 'Ms.45'
With Abel Ferrara's incredibly prescient and exciting 1981 rape-revenge movie, Ms. 45, we've set ourselves quite a task. To parse the metaphors thickly woven into Ferrara's narrative is at once easy as you can identify them quickly, and a massive undertaking as the director has exhausted every possible metaphor to the point where the movie remains controversial, striking and resonant today as it ever was in 1981.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Sonic the Hedgehog' is Not As Bad As You Think
I must admit, I went into the Sonic the Hedgehog movie with a chip on my shoulder. As someone who cheered when Parasite was named Best Picture at the Academy Awards, you can imagine that Sonic the Hedgehog was not exactly up my alley. You could also, perhaps, get that impression from the simple fact that I am a film critic and we are talking about a movie based on a very silly, almost incomprehensible, video-game.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
How Does this Movie Exist? 'Rockula' 1990
This might just be me being a little… hyperbolic, but, the 1990 musical comedy Rockula starring Dean Cameron is disease somehow rendered as a movie. Watching Rockula, which was released 30 years ago as of this writing, in February of 2020, was what I imagine contracting the plague must have been like. It begins as discomfort that grows into genuine aches and pains before developing into an all consuming feeling of slow, painful, agonizing death.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'The Lodge'
The Lodge gets off to a stunning start and rarely lets up on the oppressive atmosphere and that’s what makes it so brilliant. The Lodge stars Riley Keough as Grace. As a child, Grace was the lone survivor of a doomsday cult, run by her eccentric, Preacher, Father, which committed mass suicide. It appears, though Grace dressed up for the ritual, including Duct Tape across her mouth with the word ‘Sin’ written on it, that Grace was the designated survivor.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
The Best of Hugh Grant: About a Boy and The Gentlemen
Hugh Grant is back in theaters with The Gentlemen and in it he has delivered one of the best performances of his career. Grant is electric in the role of a private investigator hired by a newspaper magnate to dig the dirt of a big time drug dealer played by Matthew McConaughey. Grant’s PI is flipping the script on the newspaperman and his deception is insanely good fun in a movie with a wonderfully unique sense of humor.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Throwback Review: 'A Man Apart' 2003
Vin Diesel long felt that Hollywood had pigeonholed him as an action star. With his muscular build and growling speech it's not surprising and his roles in The Fast & The Furious and XXX showed how well suited he was for the genre. Nevertheless, Vin Diesel always hoped to find roles that show he has as much range as brawn. The movie A Man Apart provided him the unique opportunity to combine acting and action. Unfortunately, a script about as deep as a puddle makes acting a challenge no matter how much range you have.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Underwater' is Not the Movie You Think It Is
Underwater stars Kristen Stewart as Norah Price, an engineer on an underwater oil rig. Norah is having a rather mundane night off when she exits a locker room to find a leaking roof. A leaking roof on a rig on the bottom of the ocean is a very bad thing and Norah recognizes trouble right away. She begins banging on doors trying to raise the rest of the crew, but she’s too late, explosions are happening and Norah and only one other employee are able to make it to safety.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Dolittle' is Desperately Misguided
Dolittle is the single most misguided movie this side of Cats. This Robert Downey Jr vehicle approximates what might have happened if Bialystock and Bloom instead of producing on Broadway, moved to Hollywood to pull off their comical con jobs. Dolittle cost close to $200 million dollars and the final product is one that only a scam artist attempting to make the greatest flop in history would think to release to the public.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'La Leyenda Negra' A Cry in Black and White
Aleteia (Monica Betencourt) is hanging onto her American dream but just barely as the powers that be in Washington D.C keep threatening more and more of her existence. Aleteia has become radicalized in the war on immigrants, not just because she herself could be adversely affected, but because she believes in the power of a revolution.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in The Swamp
Movie Review: 'She's in Portland' Sideways for a new Generation
She's in Portland stars Tommy Dewey as Wes, a rich successful, still relatively young man, in a rut. Wes has problems that he's not fully prepared to confront but they are about to come to a head. Wes is being sent out west to his company's west coast branch to complete a deal. While he's on the coast he intends on seeing his friend Luke (Francois Arnaud), his best friend who has been ghosting him for over a month.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Get Gone'
Get Gone features modern horror icon Lin Shaye as the matriarch of a family of murderers. Mama, as Shaye's character is called, once found herself visiting the woods and deciding to stay after meeting a Fish and Game Ranger named Don Maxwell (Robert Miano). It's vaguely implied that Mama was kidnapped but the movie doesn't linger on this point.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Like A Boss' is Lazy Disaster
Like A Boss stars Tiffany Haddish as Mia and Rose Byrne as Mel. Together, the two have been friends since childhood and they now run their own struggling cosmetics company in what we can infer is: enter generic large city here, Atlanta maybe? Anyway, the two are in deep financial trouble because Mia, though remarkable with makeup, is terrible with money and Mel, though good with money, is bad at managing Mia.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
