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: 'In the Earth'
To say I didn’t care for director Ben Wheatley’s take on Alfred Hitchcock’s incredible masterpiece, Rebecca, would be an understatement. Not only did I write a lengthy negative review, I then wrote a second scathing take on the movie in the form of a numbered list of everything wrong with the movie. So yeah, me and Ben Wheatley are not on the same page. I felt the same wearying feeling about his breakthrough feature Free Fire starring Brie Larson, though I wasn’t inspired to chronicle my disdain as I did with Rebecca.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Trigger Point'
The new action movie Trigger Point gets off to a very strange start from the very first production logo. The film comes under the Chicken Soup for the Soul production banner, This is literally the company that has branded Chicken Soup for the Soul for over a decade and not a snarky boutique production that lifted the brand name. This is bizarre because Trigger Point is a B-movie action flick about assassins doing assassinations.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Vanquish'
Vanquish is a dimwitted, ugly and joyless entry into the action genre. The film stars Ruby Rose in the role of Victoria, a former assassin and thief turned personal care assistant to Morgan Freeman’s Damon. Damon is America’s Top Cop, a beloved law enforcement figure who was paralyzed when attacked in his home by unknown thugs. Secretly, however, Damon is also a leading underworld baddie with scores to settle.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Giants Being Lonely'
It's been quite a journey for the makers of Giants Being Lonely. The film opened to much praise at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 but was unable to garner distribution. More than a year later, Director Guillermo Del Toro saw the movie and was blown away by it. With his help, Writer-Director Grear Patterson and Executive Producer Olmo Schnabel, son of the famous director Julian Schnabel, found confidence in their ending and a champion who believed and has since leant his strength the film's release.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Jason X'
In 1980, first time director Sean S. Cunningham made his mark on the horror genre with a summer camp set rip-off of Halloween's Michael Myers that he named Jason Voorhees. Yes I said rip-off, look at it objectively. Mass murderer, white mask, comes from an extremely dysfunctional family, tell me I’m wrong. Nonetheless, Friday the 13th did eventually carve out it's own niche and 22 years after the first film the franchise continued with Jason X.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Tunnel
The Tunnel is a roller coaster of emotions and tensions. The story of a gas truck crashing deep inside a Norwegian tunnel, beneath a massive mountain, thousands of miles above sea level, The Tunnel is gripping, well acted and breathtaking. Starring Thorbjorn Harr at the head of a terrific Norwegian ensemble, The Tunnel hopes to break through the American aversion to subtitles by delivering an action/drama intense enough to make you forget it’s in another language.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
King Kong vs Godzilla 5 Pieces of Little Known Trivia
No, that’s not a typo in my title. This article is not about Godzilla vs Kong, the new blockbuster in theaters and on HBO Max at the moment. This is 5 weird pieces of trivia regarding the 1962 original King Kong vs Godzilla, the Toho feature that was retrofitted for American audiences in 1963 by a shameless huckster named John Beck. With the release of Godzilla vs Kong, I couldn’t resist watching the rubber suit version.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Song Review: 'Peaches' by Justin Bieber ft Daniel Caesar and Giveon.
Never look at the top of the charts for anything other than the most mediocre and easy to ignore songs on the planet. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of great songs have overcome the masses to make it to number one. But, unfailingly, when one takes the time to look at the song that has risen to the top of the charts, that song tends to be remarkable for being unremarkable. Generally, the best selling song is the one that is bland enough to please a lot of people all at once.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Godzilla vs Kong'
As part of my preparation for the new movie, Godzilla vs Kong, I decided to rewatch one of my least favorite movies of the last few years, Godzilla King of the Monsters. I wrote about that experience and how miserable it was. Godzilla King of the Monsters can barely be favorably compared to a Michael Bay Transformers movie. It’s just as incomprehensible as a Transformers movie but thanks to star Millie Bobby Brown, it’s slightly more tolerable than a Transformers movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Godzilla King of the Monsters
Godzilla King of the Monsters is a miserable moviegoing experience. The movie is loud and bleak and chaotic and it’s populated by characters who are impossible to invest in, aside from Millie Bobby Brown; and that’s more about her as an actress than her character. Even if you think you are going just for the big monster fights between Godzilla and a coterie of big bads, you will find yourself miserably making your way through the muck of waste of space human characters only to find loud, unimpressive fights on par with the robot fights of Transformers.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Shiva Baby'
Shiva Baby is like watching an anxiety attack in progress. That’s not a negative. The fact that the movie so well embodies what it feels like to seemingly have the world crashing in around you, unable to breathe or escape, is impressive. As someone who has had his fair share of panic attacks and anxiety, I related deeply to Shiva Baby in tone if not in the perspective of the lead character, Danielle, played by Rachel Sennott.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Unholy'
The Unholy is a wildly frustrating movie. The film is quite good in so many ways and quite silly and impossible in others, thus why it is so frustrating. Star Jeffrey Dean Morgan is so interesting, effortlessly charismatic and has that kind of shambling, messy, handsomeness where going unshaven could be lazy or a legit fashion choice. Because of Morgan’s appeal, I wanted The Unholy to succeed. Sadly, the silly is too silly for the movie to survive.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
