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: 'Flinch'
“She didn’t flinch.” That’s the reason that professional killer, Joe Doyle (Daniel Zovatto) gives to his mother (Cathy Moriarty) for why he didn’t kill a witness to a murder he committed. It’s based off of a superstition passed down to Joe from his father (Steven Bauer), himself a killer. Joe’s father once let a man go because that man, whom Dad was going to kill, didn’t flinch. To Joe’s dad, that meant that the man had something in him, something to live for.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Our Friend'
A poignant time-shifting look at grief, loss and friendship, the new drama, Our Friend, is deeply moving. The film features star turns from Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson and, in perhaps the most unexpected and nuanced performance from funnyman Jason Segal. Segal has done dramatic work before, he very well portrayed the loss of a father on the TV series How I Met Your Mother and, in 2017 he stood out playing legendarily troubled author David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Locked Down' is Much More Fun than You Think
In the first of what we can imagine will be a spate of movies involving lockdowns and the Coronavirus, HBO’s newest original film, Locked Down stars Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It’s London at the start of the pandemic lockdown. For those not aware, England’s lockdown was much more strict than here in America. Thus when married couple Linda and Paxton decided they were going to separate from each other, things got held up by the virus.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Outside the Wire' Has Netflix Year of Originals Off to a Slow Start
Outside the Wire stars Damson Idris as Lt Thomas ‘Harp’ Harper, a headstrong drone pilot. When a mission appears to be going sideways and a missile laden vehicle appears ready to wipe out an entire platoon, Harp violates orders and uses his drone weapons to eliminate the threat. However, the cost is the lives of two Marines that the platoon was attempting to save before the drone strike came. Harp killed two men in order to save 36 and that is all that saves him from a court martial for violating orders.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Love Sarah'
Love Sarah tells the story of three generations of women coming together to honor a late mother, daughter and best friend. In a masterful opening salvo, Love Sarah begins with a lovely series of scenes introducing Sarah as she is running late to the first day that she has access to the space that will become her very own bakery. In the course of 5 minutes we find that she has a daughter who loves her, a mother whom she is estranged from and a best friend who is to be her business partner.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Wake of Light' starring Matt Bush and Rome Brooks
The Wake of Light stars Rome Brooks as Mary, a woman from a small town who has remained in this town to take care of her ailing father. When she was six years old, Mary’s father, Stanley (William Lige Morgan), collapsed in a field from a stroke. Since that time, he’s been mostly unable to speak and has had minimal function other than walking from the bedroom to the kitchen to the living room on a day to day basis.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Curse of Aurore' Beats the Found Footage Curse
Found footage horror is the sub-genre that will not die. Despite the repeated and tiresome tropes and the sameness of the look of found footage, filmmakers continue to return to this well worn subset of the horror genre. The reason for this is obvious, it’s a way to make a movie cheap and fast. This doesn’t mean a found footage movie can’t be good, but the challenge grows to make a found footage movie that isn’t like every other found footage horror film.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'I Blame Society'
I Blame Society is an absolute, start to finish, blast. This insanely dark comedy about a documentary filmmaker plumbing the depths of her psychosis is a thrill ride of rising stakes and rising insanity. Written and directed by Gillian Horvat, I Blame Society is bold, unique and shockingly original. Imagine the movie May but made by a female Christopher Guest character and you have a sense of what I Blame Society is like.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Stars Fell on Alabama'
Real talk, am I getting soft or is the new romantic comedy Stars Fell on Alabama as charming as it I think it is? I thought I wrestled with my still unfinished review of I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Stars Fell on Alabama has provided an entirely different kind of challenge. On one hand, I can’t pretend I didn’t find parts of the movie charming but on the other hand, am I just a sucker for a good leading lady and a couple subversions of expectations?
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'One Night in Miami'
One of our finest dramatic actresses, Regina King, has made an effortless transition to the director’s chair with One Night in Miami. This speculative historical drama brings to life a meeting of well known black leaders and celebrities for a lengthy discourse on the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the often controversial role played by the Nation of Islam amid that struggle.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Top 10 Movies of 2020
Running late on publishing this list because I have spent the first four days of 2021 very, very ill. Thankfully, I do not have COVID-19 but pneumonia for sure is also not fun. I’d planned on publishing this list on New Year’s Eve but I figured why not celebrate instead, the end of 2020 by watching Netflix comedy specials and spending time with my family. Besides, New Years Day would be just as fine of a day to release this list. Then, boom, pneumonia, 4 days of pain and nausea that eventually put me in the hospital. Fun stuff.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review 'Night of the Kings'
I can honestly say that I am not at all familiar with the rich history of storytelling from Africa’s Ivory Coast. But, after experiencing the new movie Night of the Kings, I am fascinated by the intensity, invention and participatory style they’ve pioneered. The unique and thrilling story told in Night of the Kings uses this fantastic device of traditional storytelling to create a thriller narrative set inside of a famed Ivory Coast prison.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
