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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Documentary Review: 'Stu's Show' is a Documentary about Showbiz, Love and Healthcare
Stu’s Show begins as one kind of documentary and ends as something completely different, richer, and more thoughtful. What looks like the story of a Hollywood outsider who became an unlikely ally and friend to the stars of the Golden Age of Television, slowly morphs into a harrowing story about our modern Healthcare system and the people on the fringes of society who are forced to struggle and risk death to get the care they need from an often uncaring and indifferent healthcare system.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' is the Funniest Movie of 2022 So Far
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stars Nicolas Cage in arguably his greatest role, playing himself. Rather, I should say, Nicolas Cage is not playing himself but the pop cultural conception of who we think Nicolas Cage is. Nick Cage, if you will. This conception of Cage as a bizarre egomaniac obsessed with his own fame, struggling with money, and deeply weird is built on some foundations of truth, gossip, and the perceptions created by Cage’s many iconic film performances. It’s an utterly brilliant meta-creation that gives audiences the Nicolas Cage we want while distancing the actor from our perceptions with a layer of creative irony and detached humor.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Spectacular, Bloody, Violent, and Complex, 'The Northman is a Must See
Director Robert Eggers decided he wanted to make the definitive movie about Vikings and with The Northman he did just that. In scope, scale, performance, complexity and visual splendor, Eggers has made THE movie about Vikings. You can decide for yourself if that is a thing you want to experience but just know, the definitive movie about Vikings now exists and it is called The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Alexander Skarsgard and Anya Taylor Joy.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Confidently Weird, 'Stanleyville' is Wildly Intriguing
Stanleyville is a strange dark comedy that I imagine will get better on a second viewing. I say that because the movie is dense and strange and yet it contains riches that I imagine I might uncover with another viewing. Stanleyville is the feature length debut from director Maxwell McCabe Lokos and it is a statement of weird and fascinating purpose. Set in one location and proceeding in the fashion of Squid Game, a series of games that may or may not kill the participants, the film maintains a strangely light tone amid the potential for death at any moment.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Rhea Perlman is Outstanding in 'Marvelous and the Black Hole'
Marvelous and the Black Hole is a delightful comedy about a depressed teenager and the magician who helps turn her life around. If that premise doesn’t perk you up a little, the movie isn’t for you but if you’re like me, and that description made you smile, you must see this movie. Rhea Perlman, famed star of Cheers, gets a rare leading role as the magician in this story and she has lost none of her light comic touch from when she was a television star. In fact, based on the evidence of this movie, experience has only made Perlman even more lovable.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Unplugging' is Unfunny
Unplugging is a dimwitted sitcom premise desperately stretched out to feature length. The premise of this new comedy starring Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh could barely sustain an episode of insert modern family comedy here and yet someone thought it would make a good feature length film. They were wrong, very, very wrong. Unplugging is a tedious 90 plus minute slog through an unfunny dad joke.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Song Review: 'First Class' by Jack Harlow is Another in a Long Line of Mediocre Number 1 Hits
I am truly baffled, what is the appeal of the current number one song in America, First Class by Jack Harlow? Now, the song is not repellent, for the most part, but it is remarkably uninteresting. First Class takes Fergie’s 2006 chart topper, GLAMOROUS, and re-imagines it through the lens of hip hop star Jack Harlow reflecting on his rather remarkable and immediate success in the world of pop music. And that’s really it. There is nothing insightful or new about it, Harlow humblebrags and Fergie’s producers have already done most of the work. At least the work that wasn’t already, already done by Sheila E’s producers back in the 1980s.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Children of Sin' is Better Poster than a Movie
Children of Sin has a terrific movie poster. The poster is 80’s style, hand drawn, animated art that evokes the aesthetic of direct to VHS horror movie discoveries of the 1980s. It’s a great poster that creates an aesthetic expectation that is sadly unfulfilled in the actual movie. Whereas the poster is distinctive and eye-catching, the movie is indistinct and rather by the numbers in style and in execution.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Room 203' Hopes You Are Afraid of the Dark
Room 203 is yet another horror movie that mistakes darkness for atmosphere. This by the numbers exercise in haunted house and demon possession tropes is, at times, so dark, in terms of what you can see, that trying to follow the story is impossible. Perhaps the movie might look better on a big screen, but watching on a professionally set up HD Television, I felt like I was staring into a dark room while stock music played.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'We're All Going to the World's Fair' is a Terrifically Moody ARG Horror Movie. Top Story - April 2022.
One of my favorite YouTube rabbit holes to fall into is Alternate Reality Games or ARG’s. An ARG is an interactive online mystery that invites people watching and participating to keep track of and document clues to a central mystery. These stories often involve elements of true crime, they begin with a murder or an urban legend, they have suspects and clues and make use of YouTube, Reddit and various other forms of social media to expand the mystery in unique ways. The stories are densely packed and easy to get lost in for a few hours.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Ambulance' is an Early Worst of 2022 Contender
Ambulance is a singularly insipid entry in the canon of spectacle director Michael Bay. The action movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul Mateen II set mostly inside an ambulance provides no suspense, stock characters, and a bizarre approach to story logic. A pair of adopted brothers go in on a bank heist and wind up with hostages in an ambulance, including a dying Police Officer, and somehow a movie with this premise has no excitement whatsoever.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Phantom of the Open' Polishes the Legend of the Worst Golfer of All Time
The story of Maurice Flitcroft is legendary among golfers. I can remember hearing about Flitcroft as the son of a Golf Club Pro. My Dad loved the story of Maurice Flitcroft and I can recall him laughing about it when Flitcroft would rise back to the headlines. Flitcroft’s legend is little known outside the golf world and that fact makes the new movie, The Phantom of the Open a welcome reminder of a colorful and unique sports story.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
