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: 'Spirit Untamed' Will Entertain the Kids
Your kids, especially young girls, will love Spirit Untamed. This story of a spirited horse and the spirited young girl who befriends him is pure kiddie fare. This is the definition of a babysitter movie, the kind of safe, inoffensive, and wholly unmemorable movie that is perfect for putting on the TV while you go and do chores in another room. There is nothing wrong with Spirit Untamed as an at home presentation for children, though parents might not want to spend the money to see it in a theater.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Deadly Illusions' is a High Camp Thriller
If Cinemax made a lifetime movie, that movie would be Deadly Illusions, a trashy soap opera with just enough trash to reach an R-Rating. Deadly Illusions stars Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis as Mary Morrison, a bestselling author with a seemingly perfect life. She has wealth, a doting husband, Tom (Dermot Mulroney at his most bland), and two adorable moppets who don’t have much to do with this movie other than being plot devices.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Amusement Park' Lost George Romero Movie Found and Restored
I was perhaps a little too excited when I got word that a new George A. Romero movie from the early 1970s had been uncovered and fully restored. I, like so many others, am a huge fan of Romero from all of the Living Dead movies. He’s a storied figure in the history of horror and the notion that a piece of his work had been found and was fully restored, it captured my imagination and made me think that I was about to have a profound experience.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'A Quiet Place: Part 2' is EXHAUSTING
I didn’t enjoy A Quiet Place Part 2, I endured it. John Krasinski’s budding horror franchise is utterly exhausting. I understand that tension is the bread and butter of this premise but at a certain point my excitement during A Quiet Place Part 2 morphed into the kind of feeling one has during a rigorous workout with a tyrannical trainer, I appreciate the necessity but I just want this to be over as soon as possible. Some will call it effective, I don’t entirely disagree with that notion. But I don’t think a feeling of weary relief that I can now go home is what the movie is intending.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Endangered Species' Good Intentions Can't Mask Bad Melodrama
The makers of the new movie Endangered Species starring Rebecca Romijn appear to have their heart in the right place. Director M.J Bassett is a nature documentarian by trade and is passionate about the protection of African wildlife, specifically the waning Rhino population. Unfortunately, crafting a melodramatic narrative about the need to protect the Rhino is deeply misguided in execution. When a rich family gets caught in the middle of the African wilderness while just trying to see a Rhino, it’s hard not to root for the rhino to teach them a lesson.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Cruella' is a Feast for the Eyes . Top Story - May 2021.
Cruella is a punk rock visual fantasia shot through the prism of the Disney empire. Directed by Craig Gillespie, and starring Emma Stone, the film carries a distinctive aesthetic but one wonders what beats beneath the metaphorical chest of this spectacle. Sure, we do have the emotion of yet another dead Disney parent, one killed before our very eyes near the start of the film, but we’ve grown so used to this Disney trope that the impact is relatively minor.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Moby Doc' A Pretentious Look at a Pretentious Artist
If you plan on watching the new documentary Moby Doc, all about the music artist Moby, then you must be a fan first. The documentary is utterly impenetrable to those who aren’t already in Moby’s fandom. Being someone outside of the Moby fandom, aware of him mostly through cultural osmosis, I was rarely engaged or invested in the rather obtuse and off-putting artiness of Moby Doc. I appreciate that Moby and director Robert G Bralver wanted to do something different and fitting for Moby’s unique personality, but the artful touches are a little too extravagant for those who aren’t already familiar with Moby’s personality and art.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
What's Next for the Stars of Disney's 'Cruella'
The new Disney villain origin story, Cruella, arrives in theaters and on Disney+ on Friday, May 28th. The movie tells the backstory of famed Disney villainess, Cruella De Vil, from how she grew up to how she met her lifelong henchmen, The Badun Brothers, Jasper and Horace, and even the origin of her distaste for Dalmatians. The film stars Emma Stone as Cruella opposite the villainous Baroness played by Emma Thompson. Character actors Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser round out the main cast.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Blast' Beat Starring Mateo and Moises Arias
Blast Beat doesn’t know what kind of movie it wants to be. Is this a drama about immigration? A drama about family strife? A coming of age story? A story about two brothers on opposite ends of the Goofus and Gallant scale? In the end, Blast Beat is running in so many different directions it fails to gain ground in any one of those directions. The drama is inert, blunted by a lack of focus while reaching for emotions that it fails to earn.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Drunk Bus' is More Charming than the Title Implies
Drunk Bus stars Ozark star Charlie Tahan as Michael, an affable bus driver on a college campus, pining for the girl who got away and stuck in a loop, so to speak. Michael’s days are always the same, he wakes up in the afternoon, eats cereal while his gross roommate plays video games and lives on their shared couch, and then he goes to work for the College Transit system where he drives the late night loop, which is essentially, the drunk bus.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Saw 5' Still Scary and Violent After All These Years
In my review of Saw 2 I said that Jigsaw wasn't immortal. I was wrong. No, he doesn’t rise from the dead but through his unending game, his work, his philosophy, and teaching, he is far from gone. As we wend our way toward Saw 6, the final in my series of Saw reviews, Saw 5 sets the table for the Jigsaw philosophy to live forever. Saw 5 is not as carefully thought out as Saw movies that came before it. It is however as suspenseful and surprising as any of the Saw movies and that goes a long way.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Saw 4' Showed How a Great Series Maintains Momentum
Saw celebrates humanity while exploring its degradation and destruction. The point of the series has always been about the character of Jigsaw, played by Tobin Bell, teaching the lecherous and lethargic to appreciate the gift of life. It's a bizarre and ingenious idea for a horror film and, in its fourth installment, Saw brought both closure and new beginnings to its stories of human misery, sadness and redemption.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
