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: 'Marry Me' is Romantic Comedy Done Right . Top Story - February 2022.
I went into the new romantic comedy Marry Me, starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, with the expectation of hating the movie. It was a feeling that was not unfair given the track record that Jennifer Lopez has in terrible romantic comedies. Lopez has been party to the decline of the rom-com genre over the last two decades by churning out one horrific example of the genre after another. Movies like 2001’s dreary The Wedding Planner, the abysmal, unwatchable failure that was Gigli, the gag inducing comedy The Back Up Plan, and 2018's regrettable Second Act, in my mind, perfectly justify my expectation to hate Marry Me.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
10 Things You Might Not Know About Channing Tatum
Superstar Channing Tatum is returning to the big screen in February and making his debut as a director with the new movie, Dog. Dog tells the story of a former soldier desperate to get back into the military. He’s given the chance to rejoin his old unit but only if he successfully delivers a former bomb sniffing dog to the funeral of the dog’s former master, a fellow soldier being buried somewhere across the country.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Jackass Forever'
I understand that the appeal of Jackass is lost on a lot of people. Most people I know, close friends especially, are apoplectic over my appreciation for the silliness of Jackass. Indeed, that is why I am writing a review of Jackass Forever, a movie that really doesn’t need a critical analysis. Either you like Jackass stunts or you don’t and no critic is going to change your mind either way. So, instead, I am going to explore what I enjoy about Jackass and specifically, Jackass Forever and try to help explain the appeal.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Other Me' Sensitively Explores Sexual Identity
The Other Me operates on dream logic. The film starring Jim Sturgess and Andreja Pejic as two halves of the same person may seem obtuse or bizarre but that is intentional. The Other Me is telling a story about discovering trans identity using a divided psyche and the fractured emotional plane of dreams to lay the groundwork for a story about a bartender going blind from an unnamed disorder who finds his sight again when he discovers his mirror self as a trans woman.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: 'Catch the Fair One' is Authentic and Gritty
Catch the Fair One is a bold and uncompromising thriller about the desperate plague of human trafficking. The film stars real life boxing champion Kali Reis as Kaylee, the older sister of Jaya (Kimberly Guerrero). Jaya has been taken and to get her back Kali will offer herself to a human trafficking ring while making plans to get her and her sister out. Written and directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, Catch the Fair One is not an easy sit but it is one that will haunt you if you give it a chance.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Cosmic Dawn' Can't Walk the Line Between Cheap Melodrama and Camp
Cosmic Dawn stars Camille Rowe as Aurora. As a child Aurora witnessed her mother being abducted by aliens. She was 5 years old when it happened but her memories are still vivid. Regardless of her account however, people chalk up the alien story to having been traumatized by her mother’s disappearance. Aurora grows up a lost soul always searching for something she can’t quite wrap her mind around.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'Moonfall' is Bad But You Already Knew That. Top Story - February 2022.
Moonfall stars the charisma vacuum that is Patrick Wilson, continuing in his astonishing magic trick, fooling the world into seeing him as a movie star. Wilson plays a NASA astronaut, Brian, who, while debating the lyrics of the song Africa by Toto, because random counts as a personality in a movie like Moonfall, sees a massive alien destroy the satellite he’s working on, killing a fellow astronaut.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Air Doll' is Bold Strange and Fascinating
The movie Air Doll was originally released in 2009 and it flew completely under my radar. Thankfully, our friends at Dekanalog have rescued this lovely, thoughtful and thoroughly strange melodrama about a blow up sex doll that comes to life. That sounds a little like an inverse take on Lars and the Real Girl and the movies do carry a similar sense of whimsical melancholy. Air Doll is far more absurdist than the sweet Lars but if you liked one you may enjoy the other.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Filthy
Documentary Review: 'Worst to First: The True Story of Z100'
In May of 2022 I will have been in radio for 27 years. Naturally, that means I know and revere Scott Shannon as a legend of my business. I’ve had the privilege of hearing Scott Shannon talk about radio in interviews and in person and it never gets old. The man is an indefatigable proponent of my profession since before I was even born. So, you can imagine that when I heard someone was making a documentary about Scott Shannon’s greatest accomplishment, taking New York’s Z100 from worst in the ratings to first, I was excited.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Wolf and the Lion' Harmless Family Movie Product
The Wolf and the Lion is a harmless trifle, a modestly charming family movie with zero edge and occasionally baffling continuity. The heart of the filmmakers is mostly in the right place but you can sense the marketing strings being pulled and tears being jerked with excessive force. Based on the true story of a real life friendship between a baby wolf and baby tiger who grew up together on a Canadian island, The Wolf and the Lion is inelegant but harmless.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Long Night' is a Bore
The Long Night is a remarkably dull and derivative horror movie. This story about a couple trapped in a southern plantation home by some form of powerful demonic cult paints itself into multiple corners that it has no hope of getting out of. The villains have too much power and our protagonists are a bickering couple who have zero chemistry. So that’s fun. Then the movie builds to an ending that features character motivations that shift so fast you may get whiplash trying to keep up with the silliness.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche'
If you aren’t a fan of the British punk rock wave of the late 70s and early 1980s then you may not be aware of the trailblazer known as Poly Styrene. Poly Styrene was the rebellious and distinctive voice of the punk band X-Ray Spex. The band is arguably best known for being banned by the BBC over their song “Oh Bondage, Up Yours,” an anti-authority, anti-patriarchy punk anthem that became a big hit in spite of and because of the BBC ban.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
