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: 'The Killing of Two Lovers' is a Stunning and Gorgeous Drama
The Killing of Two Lovers begins with a striking visual. We open on a pair of people sleeping peacefully. It’s a serene scene except for the soundtrack which sounds as if bad pipe were rumbling throughout the house but somehow not interrupting the sleeping couple. The scene culminates with the appearance of a gun and a draw backwards to reveal a man holding a gun, pointing at the couple in the bed.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Scavenger' is One of the Worst Movies Ever Made THAT'S NOT A REASON TO SEE IT
Scavenger is among the most ugly, nasty and genuinely unpleasant movies I’ve ever endured. I hate saying that, I know I should not open the review with that. I know that people who release a movie as ugly and vile as Scavenger love for critics to say how awful they are, they consider a negative review such as this as good publicity. I hate that fact but I can’t put this lightly or simply dismiss the revulsion I felt while watching Scavenger.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Silo' is Better Suited for Reality TV Documentary than Feature Film
The newly released movie Silo, opening in some theaters and for on-demand rental on Friday, May 7th, plays like an episode of the reality crime series, I Survived, if that show were reduced only to re-enactments. This slight and slim drama about the potential dangers inside a midwest grain bin, has a strong central conceit but the flat, perfunctory performances and rote subplots play out as soggy melodrama, more public service announcement than movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
TCM Film Festival Review: 'Doctor X' and the Horror Films of Michael Curtiz
In his insanely prolific career with more than 170 film credits in just over 40 years in Hollywood and Germany, Director Michael Curtiz made only three horror movies. As is typical of Michael Curtiz, these aren’t merely horror films, they are incredibly detailed, exceptionally well made horror films. Curtiz did nothing halfway in his remarkable career and while Doctor X may not be well remembered today, it’s an exceptional 1930’s horror movie filled with suspense, drama and a touch of comedy to make the scares more fun.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Queen Marie of Romania'
Queen Marie of Romania is part soap opera and part solid CBS television drama. This historical drama attempts to reclaim the legacy of the Romanian Queen, Queen Marie, a woman born of English Royalty, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who went on to have her legacy destroyed by her own son, Prince Carol II. Queen Marie of Romania is a handsome but insubstantial film with a weak screenplay bolstered somewhat by a compelling lead performance by Roxana Lupu.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Paper Spiders' is a Deeply Empathetic Look at Mental Illness
Paper Spiders is an emotional rollercoaster regarding the ups and downs in a strained relationship between a teenage daughter and a mother suffering from mental illness. The film stars Lili Taylor in the role of the mother and newcomer Stefania LaVie Owen as her college bound daughter. Facing life alone in a big empty, her husband having passed away not long ago, the mother begins to exhibit strange behavior that spirals out of control.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: '15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot (Number 1 Will Blow Your Mind)'
15 Things You Didn’t Know about Bigfoot is a very modern piece of satire. Directed by Zach Lamplugh (Editor, known for Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell), 15 Things tells the story of a millennial journalist working for a website that is part Buzzfeed and part Vice. Poor Brian Emond (played by actor Brian Emond) just wants to do real journalism. Unfortunately, his current niche for the web based media company Compound is more along the lines of clickbait.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
TCM Film Festival: 'Tex Avery at MGM'
The Turner Classic Film Festival, May 6th through the 9th on TCM and HBO Max, is treading into the minefield that is the legacy of one Tex Avery during the 2021 TCM Film Festival. One of the centerpieces of TCM’s Saturday morning is the documentary Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons, a 1988 52 minute documentary that has rarely been seen as it has mostly been out of circulation in the last few years. It’s on YouTube but if you’re in America, and you don’t have one of those VPN disguises, you aren’t able to watch it. Thus the show, Saturday morning at 6 Am Eastern time on TCM is a rare opportunity to see the documentary.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Stealing Chaplin'
Stealing Chaplin is a charmless black comedy that intends to adopt the cache of Charlie Chaplin, by employing an impersonator as the film’s narrator, but comes up short at every turn. Stealing Chaplin stars Simon Phillips as Cal and Doug Phillips as Cal’s hapless brother Terry. Together they are low level con artists who are somehow $30,000 in debt to the Las Vegas mob or it’s various offshoots.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Things Heard & Seen'
I have a reputation, via the Everyone’s A Critic Movie Review Podcast, for being hard on haunted house movies. Indeed, I’ve trashed most of them. Whether it’s The Conjuring franchise and its associated films or just the random September/October studio detritus, made to capitalize on the ravenous horror fandom, I’ve not been impressed with Hollywood’s ghost stories. It’s not a particular bias ghosts ghosts. Rather, it’s an issue with overused tropes, vague motivations, and screenwriting shortcuts that have put me off of Hollywood’s over-familiar ghost formula.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Best Picture Winner 'The Artist' 10 Years Later . Top Story - April 2021.
In the 10 years since the release of The Artist and it's eventual Best Picture win at the Academy Awards in 2012, the film's lasting legacy is that a lot of people really liked the dog in the movie. Beyond that, it’s the hatred many hold for this admittedly lovely movie because it should not have won Best Picture. Now, most people likely could not name one of the several nominated movies that lost out and were more deserving than The Artist but I am not here to call anyone out or say that anyone is wrong for thinking The Artist as less than Best Picture caliber.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Here are the Young Men' Takes Advantage of Anya Taylor-Joy
Here are the Young Men is a young adult novel that must have been an absolute beast trying to adapt into a screenplay. Though the film has traditional characters and a gritty coming of age story, the book employs fanciful, dreamlike elements to communicate the mental state of the 4 male protagonists and one female character in their sphere. The film drops one of the male characters and tries to keep the fantasy and dream-like elements and comes off as chaotic and hard to follow.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
