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: 'In the Heights' Plays it Safe
I don’t know what I am missing here? I can’t quite put my finger on what other critics see in In the Heights that I don’t. I love Hamilton and I find the style of Hamilton to be impeccable. Hearing that same style used in In the Heights, I find it derivative and a great deal less interesting. The characters are likable enough and the message of love and community has warmth and good nature but the lasting impact, for me, is a gentle and pleasant musical that plays it safe at every turn.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Holler' is Authentic Rust Belt Drama
Thank you Nicole Riegel! Nicole Riegel is the director of the new drama, Holler and for once, a movie set in the rust belt isn’t defined by terrible clothes and bad wigs. Riegel, a native of a small town in Southern Ohio, has made a movie in Holler that brushes aside Hollywood stereotypes about midwestern hicks and Appalachian residents and found an authentic way to tell a story about being below the poverty line, one that doesn’t waste millions of dollars on terrible wigs and bad teeth.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Horror Movie Review: 'House' 1977
House or Hausu has its origins in a strange place. According to legend, the film was dreamed up after executives at Toho, the company famed for creating Godzilla, had seen Jaws become a worldwide phenomenon and they wanted their own horror phenomenon. The executives tapped well known commercial director Nobuhiko Obayashi to develop the concept and after failing to find anyone inside the company to direct House, and after Obayashi used his commercial instincts to create a small cult around the movie before it had been made, Toho allowed Obayashi to bring his bizarre vision to life.
By Sean PatrickExclusive • 5 years ago
Movie Review: 'The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It' A Demon Possessed Waterbed???
A demon possessed a waterbed! That’s what we’re going with for the latest in The Conjuring franchise? The whole movie hinges on a demon possessed waterbed? I certainly didn’t have The Conjuring franchise paying homage to director George Berry’s legendary 1977 horror camp classic, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats on my 2021 bingo card, but here we are. A boy splashes down on a demonic waterbed and a drunken landlord that the kid has never met ends up dead. Sure, why not.
By Sean PatrickExclusive • 5 years ago
Documentary Review: 'Super Frenchie' Inside the Life of an Extreme Sports Superstar
Super Frenchie is a terrific documentary about a fascinating man. Super Frenchie is the nickname given to Matthias Giraud, a base jumper and extreme skiing fanatic with a deep and abiding addiction to adrenaline. Matthias is one of the most famous base jumpers in the world and, as demonstrated in Super Frenchie, one of the most humble and charming. Giraud takes a sport that appears utterly terrifying and unnecessary and gives it a context and appeal that even someone as desperately afraid of heights as this critic can appreciate.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Interview: Director Darren Lynn Bousman on the Future of 'Spiral' and 'Saw'
Director Darren Lynn Bousman stepped away from the Saw franchise more than a decade ago and assumed he was done working inside the world created for Jigsaw, aka John Kramer. Then, Chris Rock called and suddenly a whole new take on the franchise opened up before Bousman's eyes. Now, the director of three Saw movies, Saw 2, Saw 3 and Saw 4, and what he hopes will be the first of the Spiral movies, has his eyes on the future of the Saw cinematic universe.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Spirit Untamed' Will Entertain the Kids
Your kids, especially young girls, will love Spirit Untamed. This story of a spirited horse and the spirited young girl who befriends him is pure kiddie fare. This is the definition of a babysitter movie, the kind of safe, inoffensive, and wholly unmemorable movie that is perfect for putting on the TV while you go and do chores in another room. There is nothing wrong with Spirit Untamed as an at home presentation for children, though parents might not want to spend the money to see it in a theater.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Deadly Illusions' is a High Camp Thriller
If Cinemax made a lifetime movie, that movie would be Deadly Illusions, a trashy soap opera with just enough trash to reach an R-Rating. Deadly Illusions stars Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis as Mary Morrison, a bestselling author with a seemingly perfect life. She has wealth, a doting husband, Tom (Dermot Mulroney at his most bland), and two adorable moppets who don’t have much to do with this movie other than being plot devices.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Amusement Park' Lost George Romero Movie Found and Restored
I was perhaps a little too excited when I got word that a new George A. Romero movie from the early 1970s had been uncovered and fully restored. I, like so many others, am a huge fan of Romero from all of the Living Dead movies. He’s a storied figure in the history of horror and the notion that a piece of his work had been found and was fully restored, it captured my imagination and made me think that I was about to have a profound experience.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'A Quiet Place: Part 2' is EXHAUSTING
I didn’t enjoy A Quiet Place Part 2, I endured it. John Krasinski’s budding horror franchise is utterly exhausting. I understand that tension is the bread and butter of this premise but at a certain point my excitement during A Quiet Place Part 2 morphed into the kind of feeling one has during a rigorous workout with a tyrannical trainer, I appreciate the necessity but I just want this to be over as soon as possible. Some will call it effective, I don’t entirely disagree with that notion. But I don’t think a feeling of weary relief that I can now go home is what the movie is intending.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Endangered Species' Good Intentions Can't Mask Bad Melodrama
The makers of the new movie Endangered Species starring Rebecca Romijn appear to have their heart in the right place. Director M.J Bassett is a nature documentarian by trade and is passionate about the protection of African wildlife, specifically the waning Rhino population. Unfortunately, crafting a melodramatic narrative about the need to protect the Rhino is deeply misguided in execution. When a rich family gets caught in the middle of the African wilderness while just trying to see a Rhino, it’s hard not to root for the rhino to teach them a lesson.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Cruella' is a Feast for the Eyes . Top Story - May 2021.
Cruella is a punk rock visual fantasia shot through the prism of the Disney empire. Directed by Craig Gillespie, and starring Emma Stone, the film carries a distinctive aesthetic but one wonders what beats beneath the metaphorical chest of this spectacle. Sure, we do have the emotion of yet another dead Disney parent, one killed before our very eyes near the start of the film, but we’ve grown so used to this Disney trope that the impact is relatively minor.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
