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: 'Ma' Is a Jumbled Mess
In a perfect world an actress with the talent and charisma of Octavia Spencer would get any role that suits her, leading or otherwise. But it has been her experience, and indeed, the experience of many actresses, that talent often doesn't mean as much to Hollywood producers, as having an actress who is an example of mainstream notions of attractiveness.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
'Ad Astra' Five Takeaways from the First Trailer for New Brad Pitt Movie
After moving to Netflix for his most recent movie, War Machine, Brad Pitt has two blockbuster movies on tap for 2019. The first up will be, arguably, the most talked about movie of 2019, Quentin Tarentino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which stars Pitt alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in a story that trails along the Hollywood of the late 1960s and the Manson Family murders.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Futurism
30 Years of Nicolas Cage Memes in 'Vampire's Kiss'
30 years later and Vampire’s Kiss starring Nicolas Cage is as crazy and misunderstood as ever. Though it has lived on through endless memes, Vampire’s Kiss is far more than just a bonkers Nicolas Cage, rage-a-thon. In fact, Vampire’s Kiss may be one of the sneakiest works of genius in the last 30 years. Combining elements of Bram Stoker and The Twilight Zone with a hint of Hammer Films, Vampire’s Kiss combines these unique influences in a riveting, often hilarious, and never boring package.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Five Takeaways from First Trailer for '47 Meters Down: Uncaged'
47 Meters Down was a shocking and surprising hit movie in 2017 that appeared to arrive out of absolutely nowhere. The film starring a pre-This is Us Mandy Moore, alongside Clair Holt as young sisters trapped in a shark cage while on a fantasy vacation, was made on a shoestring, $6 million dollar budget, went on to gross more than $61 million dollars worldwide. Naturally, despite an ending that doesn’t exactly tease a sequel, producers are eager to capitalize on the hit.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Brightburn' Fails to Fire Up Scares
Brightburn ruined my day. I was in a good mood before I saw this nasty, brutal, B-movie. What if Superman were evil, and Ma and Pa Kent were morons; that's the premise of Brightburn. Take the paragon of virtue, Superman, and make him a figure of ugly malevolence. Subversion is a perfectly suitable goal, but you’d better have a good point to said subversion, be it merely an interesting thinkpiece or an alt-world comic book. Unfortunately, all Brightburn has is a premise, and a taste for blood.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
This movie is exhausting. Get ready because this review is going to get rather blasphemous for fans of the famed texts known as Indiana Jones. First let me say, I don’t think that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a ‘bad movie.’ However, after 30 years, my patience, like my nostalgia, has waned and the film’s flaws have come to the fore for me. Rather than the giddy thrill I felt as a 13 year old, 43-year-old me tired quickly of Steven Spielberg’s rushed narrative and repeated set pieces and tropes.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
The 2000s Movie Project: 'The Whole Nine Yards'
The latest entry in the 2000s Project, in which we are analyzing the film trends and topics of this young century, is among the first big comedy hits of the 2000s, The Whole Nine Yards. Released on February 18, 2000, the film grossed more than $100 million dollars on an admittedly steep $41 million dollar budget, most of which went to pay for Bruce Willis’s smirk and silly hat budget.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: A Look Back at 'My Own Private Idaho'
The classic on this week’s Everybody’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast is in honor of John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum. My Own Private Idaho stars Keanu Reeves opposite River Phoenix as hustlers living in the Pacific Northwest. Reeves is the supporting player to Phoenix’s lead, and in that supporting role, Reeves has rarely been as complex and layered. Working opposite River Phoenix appears to have brought something out of Reeves that we’ve rarely seen in the years since.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Keanu Reeves: His Five Best and Five Worst Movies
Keanu Reeves is the kind of actor who needs a strong hand in the directors chair to deliver his best work. The five best performances of Reeves' career came when he was under the guidance of director with a strong vision and the ability to mold Reeves' performance. Give Keanu a bad or just mediocre director and you are in for one truly awful movie, as this list will demonstrate.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders' Exploits a Cult Legend
Room 37 The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders has a high ick factor. A speculative horror movie about the final days of former New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders, played by Leo Ramsey, Room 37 leaves good taste well behind with its very premise. Leering and sweaty, Room 37 The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders opts for ugly, unfounded speculation over anything remotely accurate about what may have happened to the mercurial rock star.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Poms' Isn't the Worst of Diane Keaton, Still Bad Though
That Poms is bad is something I could have written without having seen the movie. Star Diane Keaton hasn’t made a movie actually worth sitting through in more than 30 years—it was unlikely that dressing as a cheerleader was going to reverse that trend. Yet another exercise in the sub-genre of old people doing young people things, Poms is filled with gags about how old people have almost constant pain and are near death. Hilarious, right?
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Tolkien' Is a Surprising Delight
I am the last person I expected to be a huge of a biopic of The Hobbit creator J.R.R Tolkien, but here we are. As the mystical magic of the movies settled over me in a theater in Davenport, Iowa, I found myself almost instantly won over by the story of a supremely intelligent young orphan, haunted by the unexpected early death of his incredibly creative mother, Tolkien, the movie, crafts a vision of a man one might expect to create entire worlds from his remarkable imagination.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
