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: 'Umma' Underwhelms Despite Sandra Oh
Umma stars Sandra Oh as Amanda, a single mother living off the grid somewhere in the southwest of America with her daughter, Chris (Fivel Stewart). Amanda has a desperate aversion to electricity and refuses to power their home. Amanda goes so far as to advise everyone not to even bring cars or cellphones on to her property. This is related to a childhood trauma in which her mother tortured her physically with the frayed cord of an ornate lamp.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'X' is One of the Best of 2022 So Far
X takes the idea of aesthetic homage to its best possible place by evoking the look and feel of the best of 1970s horror while not forgetting to tell its own story. X is the story of a group of low level hustlers trying their hand at making low budget pornography. The success of Debbie Does Dallas inspired hundreds of copycats and the characters of X feel that they have a terrific chance for success with their sexy strippers and a ‘talented’ male star.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'The House of the Devil'
Merely emulating the style of another era of film is not an idea, it’s an aesthetic. The 2009 horror movie, The House of the Devil, a breakout for director Ti West impressed a lot of people with its aesthetic. The film’s grainy cinematography evoked the early 1980s and the horror aesthetic of that time. Indeed, in style alone, The House of the Devil is quite impressive. Every last retro touch from the clothes right down to the heroine’s walkman looks perfectly of the period.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Bull Durham' is the Greatest Baseball Movie of All Time
Bull Durham is the best baseball movie ever made, bar none. You can have your Field of Dreams or your A League of their Own or The Babe Ruth Story, for those of you with terrible taste, but for me, there is no contest, Bull Durham is THE BEST. Funny, smart, romantic, sexy and quotable, Bull Durham goes even beyond baseball and into the realm of simply being a great movie.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Alice' Starring Keke Palmer
Alice stars Keke Palmer as a woman named Alice who has been raised as a slave. Alice is a captive on a Georgia plantation so deep in the woods that word of the end of the Civil War never reached the people held captive there. We know this because we’ve seen the trailer and therein lies a fatal flaw in the film-making concept behind Alice. The movie drags on for nearly 40 minutes crafting an air of mystery and secrets while illustrating life on the plantation as if setting us up for a shocking reveal that we're already fully aware of.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Brokeback Mountain' Opened the World to New Western Stories
With The Power of the Dog exploring themes of sexuality and masculinity in the context of the mythic American west as it transitioned to modernity and civilization, I was reminded of how Brokeback Mountain explored similar ideas in an even more modern version of the West. With The Power of the Dog nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and rankling the elderly members of the Academy with its modern themes, it seems that now is as good a time as ever to reflect on Brokeback Mountain.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Pride
Classic Movie Review: David Cronenberg's 'Eastern Promises'
Kino Lorber is releasing a 4K Ultra HD and Blu Ray Release for David Cronenberg's exceptional, 2007 crime thriller, Eastern Promises starring Viggo Mortenson and Naomi Watts. This new release of Eastern Promises was approved and graded by cinematographer Peter Suschitzky and features a new round of bonus features talking about the making of Eastern Promises. The 4K Ultra HD and Blu Ray release of Eastern Promises will be available on March 22nd, 2022. With that, here is a look back at Eastern Promises.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Deep Water' is a Dreary 'Erotic' Thriller
Hey, you know who doesn’t need a comeback right now? Director Adrian Lyne. No time in our collective popular culture could be any less suited for the kind of sleazy, sexist, trope heavy sex thriller that Lyne specialized in in the 1980s. While his Fatal Attraction is certainly an unforgettable movie, it was also an ugly, misogynistic, chauvinistic, sleazefest that blamed men’s infidelity on these predatory women always out to turn good men into cheaters.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
The Anxiety of Watching John Travolta Eat Pizza in Saturday Night Fever. Top Story - March 2022.
Has anyone ever noticed how John Travotla’s character, Tony Manero, in Saturday Night Fever eats pizza? It’s an odd question, I know, but as I sat down to watch Saturday Night Fever as the classic on the Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast, I noticed that Tony stops for pizza on his way to work during the iconic Staying Alive credits sequence. He orders two slices of pizza, New York Style.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Feast
Movie Review: 'The Adam Project' is a Terrific Time Travel Adventure
The Adam Project stars Ryan Reynolds in the role of Adam Reed. Adam is a pilot in some unspecified dystopian future where time travel has not only been discovered, it’s been used for nefarious purposes. When Adam decides to fight back and steal a time traveling spaceship, he ends up getting shot before jumping back in time to the year 2022. There, Adam plants his ship in the trees behind his childhood home and meets his 12 year old self, played by Walker Scobell.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Song for Cesar' Documents the Music of a Movement
From pain, anguish, and strife often comes the greatest works of art. This has been true throughout civilization but in certain areas, it was crystalized. Flashpoints of great pain and suffering are marked in human history by great works of art and a strong example of that comes in the art that was born from the fields of toil in California in the 1940s to the 1960s and 1970s, much of it inspired by a man named Cesar Chavez.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: Childish 'Win a Trip to Browntown' Hopes Infamy Sells
Win a Trip to Browntown is one of the most bizarre movies ever made. At once a wholesome family sitcom and a movie that believes anal sex is the funniest idea in the history of man, the very existence of Win a Trip to Browntown boggles the mind. How did any sane person think this was a good idea for a movie? The premise has a man betting his wife with him earning the chance to have anal sex with her if he wins. Who is this movie for?
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Filthy
