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: 'CODA' Starring Emilia Jones
CODA or Child of Deaf Adults was a huge festival hit in early 2021. The film debuted to huge ovations at the Sundance Film Festival and set a record when Apple TV bought the movie for a rumored $25 million dollars. With all of that buzz and hype you must be wondering, 'why have I never heard of CODA?' Great question, I wish I knew the answer. CODA is a really good family drama that Apple TV bought at a premium and spent nothing to promote.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'He's All That' Starring Addison Rae
He’s All That is slightly less offensive than the 1999 original, She's All That. That’s pretty much the nicest thing I can say about this dreary, derivative excuse for product placement. Director Mark Waters long ago gave up on trying to make actual movies, preferring to cash paychecks for young adult products not worthy of taking up space on movie theater screens. It makes sense that his work is now on streaming television, his ambition is barely above that of a low rent television show.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: '2001 A Space Odyssey'
I have no excuse to write a full length review of 2001 A Space Odyssey in 2021. It's not celebrating an Anniversary, it's not new to 4K or the Criterion Collection. I have nothing remotely to tie this movie to other than my desire to sit and experience it again on my 50+ inch flat screen television, the one great indulgence of my life, more expensive than my car. (That's only a slight exaggeration.)
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Futurism
Documentary Review: 'Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed'
Bob Ross’s place in American popular culture is remarkably unique. He slowly became a welcome presence on PBS, he became a figure of derision and mockery for a time, people taking easy shots at his earnest love of painting, his unique hairstyle, and so on, and then he came back around to becoming an icon. As the new documentary, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed, rightly points out, amid the pandemic, the calming presence of Bob Ross became a welcome and soothing balm, a pleasant safe space.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Colony' (2021) Starring Nora Arnezeder
My least favorite film sub-genre is dystopian fiction. Grimy, dirty people eating each other and talking solely about how awful all of humanity is just does nothing for me. Most dystopian fiction feels the same to me. I even had strong reservations about Mad Max Fury Road because, again, dirty people talking about how bad humanity is and blah, blah, blah. Now, I know that Mad Max Fury Road is the internet’s favorite movie, so, please, allow me to remind you that I do admire that movie, I just don’t love it with the kind of fury that you do. Sorry.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'We Need to Do Something'
As a storm overtakes a small suburban town, an internal storm rages inside the suburban home of a divided family of four in the horror thriller, We Need to Do Something. Directed by Sean King O’Grady, We Need to Do Something stars Pat Healy as Robert, the agitated father, Vinessa Shaw plays Diane, the secretive but loving mother to Melissa, played by Sierra McCormick, and Bobby, played by John James Cronin.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Behemoth'
The story behind the new movie Behemoth is more interesting than the story being told in the movie Behemoth. Director Peter Szewczyk is a famed effects artist and managed to make this effects heavy horror flick with a budget of only $65,000. That’s a remarkable achievement considering the cost of a movie in general can be twice that amount without relying on special effects spectacle.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Reminiscence' starring Hugh Jackman
I’m tempted to pat the new movie Reminiscence on its metaphorical head and condescendingly talk about how I appreciate the attempt it makes at being about something more than a Hollywood thriller plot and some mainstream notion of noir. Okay, so that’s what I just did and I kind of hate myself. At the same time, I do appreciate the intentions of Reminiscence. The film calls upon the tragedy of Orpheus and Euripides, and the ongoing tragedy of climate change, in a vain attempt to give an overly familiar macho action movie something to stand for.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Sweet Girl' Starring Jason Momoa. Top Story - August 2021.
Sweet Girl doesn’t fail due to lack of commitment. Leads Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced each appear deeply committed to their roles. The unfortunate failure of Sweet Girl comes because what these wonderful performers committed to was far too silly to warrant their commitment. Sweet Girl turns on a twist so clumsily executed and poorly thought out that it renders any goodwill the movie might get from the performances moot.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Klute' Starring Jane Fonda
Klute is the classic on the latest edition of the Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast. The film was chosen because the new movie Reminiscence appears to be about a private detective and Klute centers on an investigation by a would-be private eye played by Donald Sutherland. More than any of that however, I’ve always wanted an excuse to watch Klute and this was a flimsy enough excuse to do so. I was rewarded for my effort as Klute was a truly rewarding experience.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Annette' Starring Adam Driver
Annette is a masterwork. Director Leos Carax takes the audience into his hands and takes us on a fantastical journey, a strange and magnificent journey of sight and sound. The beauty of music and the beast of hubristic ego slammed together in a story of movies, music, romance, sex, and all that such things entail. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, with music from the duo known as Sparks, Annette is a towering, forceful hurricane of image and emotion.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Habit' Starring Bella Thorne
Habit stars Bella Thorne as a party-girl turned drug dealer after she’s fired from yet another in a series of low paying gigs. With her friends, Addy (Andrea Pejic) and Evie (Libby Mintz), Bella will be selling drugs, supplied to them by a former TV star, Eric (Gavin Rossdale), at a nightclub. Unfortunately, all three friends end up partying a little too much and after taking the party back to their apartment, they wake up to find $8,000 in cash and drugs stolen.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
