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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Classic Horror Movie Review: 'The Descent'
6 women on a cave exploring trip find themselves face to face with underground cave-dwelling cannibals. It sounds goofy, but as executed in the sensational horror film The Descent it's a terrifying series of gory, edge of your seat, horror that you watch through your fingers. Writer-director Neil Marshall who became known as the director of the much talked about but little seen Dog Soldiers, nails moments of pure, honest ,terror, a rarity in modern horror, by using his unique location and suffocating close up photography and lighting.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
My Top 5 Favorite Horror Movies of All Time. Top Story - October 2021.
Halloween is about candy, fun, costumes and great scares. It’s also about horror movies, the official film genre of Halloween. With that in mind, I decided to lay out my list of my Top 5 All Time Favorite Horror Movies. My choices are both traditional and non-traditional. I have at least one all timer that goes on just about any list of favorite horror movies and two movies that have divided fans who either love these movies and the filmmaker behind them or loathe them. Regardless of how you feel about my list, be sure to get in touch with me and tell me what your favorite horror movies are on Twitter where my handle is @PodcastSean.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Horror Movie Review: 'Wrong Turn' (2003)
Halloween is upon us and with that the need to watch many, many horror movies. With that in mind, I have been watching horror after horror after horror movie, in my pursuit to review as many horror movies as possible. It was this quest that brought me to revisit a horror movie of my past as a critic. In 2003, I reviewed the horror movie Wrong Turn and I hated it. Was I wrong? Is my 2021 perspective different? The movie isn't, but perhaps I am a little different.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong Torres'
Many fans have created their vision of who Ben Fong Torres is based on what they saw in Cameron Crowe’s brilliant 2000 film, Almost Famous. Played by actor Terry Chen, the Ben Fong Torres of Almost Famous is a supremely laid back individual who unwittingly hires a teen aged Cameron Crowe, known as William Miller in the movie, to become a reporter for Rolling Stone. The main thing people remember about the character is that he had a catchphrase, ‘Crazy.’ Everything was ‘Crazy’ in a cool, melodic tone that was anything but crazy.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Documentary Review: 'The United States of Insanity'
My favorite writer is a man named Nathan Rabin. Nathan’s writing is funny, weird, sophisticated and distinctly his own. I admire his voice and envy the clever turns of phrase. It is because I admire Nathan so much that I was able to enter the new documentary, The United States of Insanity, a documentary about the Insane Clown Posse, with less skepticism than I am sure most critics entered with. You see, several years ago, in his brilliant book, You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me, Nathan announced that he was a Juggalo. The fact that someone who I truly hold up as a peer and inspiration is a Juggalo opened my eyes to the phenomenon, not as one that I could identify with but one I could understand and respect.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Passing' Starring Tessa Thompson
Passing stars Tessa Thompson as Irene, an upper middle class woman in 1920s New York City. Though Irene, or Reenie as some called her when she was young, is a black woman she occasionally fancies passing for a white woman using her light skinned complexion and just a little makeup. It’s the 1920s, a time in which even in a big city such as New York, there are privileges denied to people of color. It is while passing for white that Irene runs across a former childhood friend, Claire Bellew, played by Ruth Negga, in the dining hall of an upscale New York Hotel.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Dune' Starring Timothee Chalamet . Top Story - October 2021.
Describing the plot of Dune is complicated. At once it is rich and detailed storytelling and it's deeply complicated to attempt to describe. Director Denis Villeneuve, one of our finest living directors, has crafted a remarkable work of science fiction art and a satisfying blockbuster movie experience with the first part of what is clearly intended to be two movies with lengthy and ambitious stories to be told.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'The Harder They Fall' Starring Idris Elba
The Harder they Fall stars Jonathan Majors as Nat Love, an outlaw in the old west and leader of the Nat Love Gang, a criminal outfit that robs other criminals. Joining Nat are his lady love, Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz), Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi), Jim Beckworth (R.J Cyler) and Mary’s right hand, Cuffee (Danielle Deadwyler). Together they battle other gangs and rob them to enrich themselves while Nat pursues a lifelong revenge.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain begins on such a painful note of whimsy that I thought I might gag on it. The first time we meet Benedict Cumberbatch, in the role of real life artist Louis Wain, the performance is so mannered, so broad, and so deeply affected that it feels like a Saturday Night Live parody. It doesn’t help that the early cinematography choices, handheld and bumpy, looks grainy in a way very similar to SNL shorts, those pre-taped bits SNL occasionally does.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Lamb' Starring Noomi Rapace
Lamb is a bizarre and brilliant new film from Icelandic filmmaker Valdimar Johannson. The film stars Noomi Rapace as Maria and Hilmur Snaer Guonason as Maria’s husband, Ingvar. The two lead a rather mundane life as sheep herders and farmers in a lonely but utterly gorgeous patch of land in Iceland. Their existence is serene and routine, tending to the sheep, fixing the tractor, tilling the land for planting and harvesting, and so on.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Subject' Starring Jason Biggs
The Subject is an exciting new drama about a documentarian who finds himself on the other side of the camera in the wake of a tragedy that occurred during the making of his recent award winning documentary. Jason Biggs stars in The Subject as Phil Waterhouse, an award winning documentary filmmaker who harbors guilt over the death of one of the subjects of his last documentary, for which he was lavished with awards and praise.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Last Duel Starring Matt Damon
The Last Duel stars Jody Comer as Marguerite, a daughter of privilege traded like property to Squire and future Knight, Jean De Carrouges (Matt Damon). She’s also the object of the affections of Carrouges' long time friend turned enemy, Jacques LeGris (Adam Driver). In the course of The Last Duel we will see the same story told from each of these three perspectives but only Marguerite’s is actually treated as ‘The Truth.’
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
