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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TV Movie Review: Tamala Jones Outshines Low Rent 'Deadly Dispatch'
Deadly Dispatch is a title so remarkably dull that I struggle to remember it. It's a title so banal that it is actually befitting of this movie, which, aside from star Tamala Jones, is an utterly banal exercise in TV movie dramatics. The story is witless and the delivery barely rises above the level of a reenactment from an episode of Forensic Files.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Art of Self Defense' Is a Strange Failure of Tone
The Art of Self Defense defied my attempts to like it. I wanted to enjoy the odd tone and the strange sense of humor of writer-director Riley Stearns. I wanted to enjoy the hipster send up of masculinity that is at the core of The Art of Self Defense, but the film's highly self-conscious style kept putting me at a distance before finally, with nothing to grasp onto aside from an appreciation of the style of the film, I finally left defeated and deflated.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Song Review: "To a T" Is One of the Worst Songs I've Ever Heard
What is my review of Ryan Hurd’s new single "To a T?" It’s the longest two minutes and 58 seconds of my life. This limp, lifeless bit of modern country, or is it Hot AC? Does that radio designation even exist anymore? I digress, this limp, lifeless song is populated by some truly lame romantic platitudes lost in a sea of sad guitar, and deeply uninspired electronica backing tracks. I’ve heard some terrible pop songs in my time, but "To a T" is a classic in hate-listening history.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Beat
TV Movie Review: 'Loved to Death' Is the Least Crazy TV One TV Movie Yet
My growing obsession with TV One and their brand of uniquely insane TV movies sadly may be cooling off. After the wild camp of Bobby DeBarge, the utter ludicrousness of Sins of the Father and the utterly bonkers final minutes of In Broad Daylight, TV One finally aims for a respectable TV movie with Loved to Death and I find myself a little bummed out.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 'One Bedroom' Is a Bittersweet Slice of Life
One Bedroom opens in a jarring but effective fashion. This movie about a breakup between a couple after five years of living together in a small corner of an ever more gentrified part of Brooklyn, New York, opens with a slam poem about gentrification. The movie isn't about the strange and often unwelcome changes in New York City neighborhoods, but the raw energy and forcefulness of the poem, delivered by actress and model DeAriesha Mack directly to the camera, sets a tone of forceful dialogue that will be the hallmark of One Bedroom.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: 'Supervized' Mines Laughs From Aging Superhero Gags
Supervized stars Tom Berenger as Ray AKA Maximum Justice. Ray is a resident of a nursing home in Ireland, for reasons unexplained, and he’s formerly one of the most beloved superheroes in the world. Alongside his partner Shimmy, AKA Ted (Beau Bridges), Ray used to save the world from all manner of world ending threats. Nowadays, Ray is more likely to use his mastermind control powers to change the channel, so he doesn’t have to retrieve the remote.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
The Best Movies of 2019 So Far...
I’ve seen more than 73 wide releases in 2019, but according to Wikipedia, these are the wide release movies and Netflix releases that I have seen this year between January first and July 15, 2019. This seems like the perfect time to look at the list, and see where we are in 2019 in terms of the wide releases of the year. What can we learn, what has 2019 wrought at the multiplex.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Crawl'
Crawl stars Kaya Scoledario as Haley, a college student in Florida. Haley is at the University of Florida on a swimming scholarship, and she's struggling. Haley's times are slowing down, and she's worried that she may lose her scholarship. Haley receives a Facetime call from her sister, Beth (Morfydd Clark) asking her about a hurricane that is hovering over Florida.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
TV Movie Review: 'In Broad Daylight' Is TV One At Its Melodramatic Best
Okay, I am becoming obsessed with TV One melodramas. First there was the earnest and sad comedy of The Bobby DeBarge Story, and then, on July seventh, there was the incredibly odd, but incredibly watchable Sins of the Father. Now, on July 14, comes In Broad Daylight, the latest TV One movie of the week, and once again TV One has crafted a drama so remarkably strange and watchable that it almost defies description.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable' A Portrait of Determination and Faith
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable is moving and entertaining. The young lady, known once as the ‘Soul Surfer’ is all grown up, married, and a mom today. And, Bethany Hamilton is damn sure still a surfer and despite everything, she remains one of the great surfers in the world. It’s a remarkable story and one exceptionally well captured by Director Aaron Lieber. With gorgeous underwater photography and Bethany telling her own story, we get the best glimpse yet of her exceptional life in Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'The Virgin Spring', 'The Divine Comedy' and The Seven Deadly Sins
The classic on this week's episode of the Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast is Ingmar Bergman's remarkable 1960 revenge film, The Virgin Spring. Mainstream audiences know The Virgin Spring as the movie that famously inspired Wes Craven to make his violent, mysoginist, hateful, horror debut The Last House on the Left.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
TV Movie Review: 'Sins of the Father'
Sins of the Father has no right to be this damn entertaining. This low budget, trashy, sloppy, TV movie mystery is in the tradition of daytime TV drama, brimming with forced melodramatics and a completely unintended sense of humor. I went into Sins of the Father prepared to roll my eyes and write a dismissive, mocking review of the movie, and came out wanting to tell the world to watch it.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
