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: 'The Courier'
Every year we get further from World War 2. and the Cold War that followed it, new stories of bravery emerge and are more amazing than the last. The latest in this line of long unsung heroes is a man named Greville Wynne. In the early 1960’s, Greville Wynne was your average, British suburban dad. He was a salesman with a good patter and just enough charisma to make a good living.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Ludi'
Recently, a clueless, out of touch politician, whose name I will not mention, said that if the American people were to be given $1400.00 stimulus checks, they might not go to work. Apparently this deeply delusional lifetime politician thinks we still live in the early 1950’s when you could get a jar of milk and a loaf of bread for 15 cents and feed your family for a week. Today, $1400.00 might give a person a little break in the rent and a dent in your monthly bills, and that’s for people who are already on the lower end of the economic ladder.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Sin La Habana'
Sin La Habana, or Without Havana, for those who need a translation, is a challenging story about immigration, desperation and sex as a marketplace. The protagonist of Sin La Habana is a male ballet dancer who doesn’t fit your Hollywood stereotype of men in ballet. He’s a Cuban man with a beautiful girlfriend, a hot temper and ego to spare. It’s that ego that will be challenged throughout as the story of Sin La Habana unfolds.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Coming 2 America'
Will we as a collective culture ever tire of having our nostalgia reheated like leftovers and served to us on a silver platter? Whether it is the return of Bill and Ted or another miserable Terminator rehash, Hollywood is continually rewarded for serving us warmed up nostalgia as if it were a gourmet meal with the media and the adoring public watching every reiteration, so I get why they do it. The question is for you, dear reader, why do you keep treating bowls of pre-packaged microwave goo like it is filet mignon from the finest restaurant?
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Kid 90'
There is a temptation to write off the new to Hulu documentary Kid 90 as a navel gazing bit of personal nostalgia on the part of director and subject Soleil Moon Frye. The former Punky Brewster star, or rather current Punky Brewster revival star, now that I think of it, assembled Kid 90 from her own video and diary collection. As a teenager in Hollywood in the early 90’s, Frye carried her camera everywhere and captured her life in great detail.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Moxie'
Girl power narratives are becoming more frequent in modern popular culture and I am here for it. It’s great to see the long held trope of ‘boys will be boys’ repeatedly upended by smarter, more capable and more interesting female characters. Now that you’ve cursed me for supposed virtue signaling, and we’ve weeded out those who’ve come here hoping to read a review repeatedly dunking on Moxie, we can actually talk about Moxie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Sometime Other Than Now'
Something you don’t know about me dear reader, I have long nursed a major crush on actress Kate Walsh. I was obsessed with her character on Grey’s Anatomy and when she spun-off to her own show, Private Practice, I never missed an episode, even when the show started to really stink. I even watched every episode of her short-lived sitcom, Bad Judge and enjoyed it just because I think she’s incredible.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'As Long As We Both Shall Live'
As Long as We Both Shall Live is a movie with a very tricky tone. The film opens on a couple, Malcolm and Sarah (Josh Helman and Orange is the New Black star, Yael Stone) who are loving and playful and sweet. Then, Sarah leaves to go to the store and never comes home. On her way to the store, Sarah was in an accident and was killed at the scene. When Josh arrived, she was still being taken from the crash site and the trauma is long lasting.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Sophie Jones'
Sophie Jones stars actress Jessica Barr in the title role of a teenager who is in a tailspin following the death of her mother. Sophie is 16 years old and when we meet her, it’s not long since the passing of her mother. Sophie is still adjusting to the loss and as we watch we see her seemingly playing with her late mother’s ashes. It’s inconceivable and yet, childish curiosity is a trait that fits the character of Sophie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Raya and the Last Dragon'
Raya and the Last Dragon is a tough sit for anyone over the age of 9. That's not a bad thing in that the movie was made with 9 year old's in mind, that's great. As a kids movie, I can't fault anything about Raya and the Last Dragon. The animation is stunning, it's absolutely gorgeous to look at. The story is basic and entirely inoffensive... sort of, for the most part. UGH! (See post-script)
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Tyger Tyger'
The new movie Tyger Tyger suffers from the strange affliction of having a far more interesting backstory than the story being told in the movie. The film was written and directed by Kerry Mondragon and explores his own troubled history with drug abuse to tell a story about the often surreal, beautiful and dangerous world of addiction. The film is set inside a real life fringe community in California that proves to be way more interesting than the story of the movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Safer at Home'
Safer at Home is a thriller set in what hopefully will remain an alternate reality. In Safer at Home, it’s 2023 and Americans are under a brand new and even more severe COVID lockdown. We are told that the police and military are in the streets enforcing curfews in major cities and that the death toll has increased severely as new strains of the Coronavirus find new purchase across the country.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
