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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Interview: Former NFL Linebacker Sam Acho Author of 'Let the World See You'
Former NFL Linebacker Sam Acho played for the Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in his more than 8 seasons in the NFL. In his time in the NFL Sam struggled with his emotions and with trying to hide his insecurities and anxiety and it caused strife in the locker room and in his personal life. It wasn’t until a friend caused Sam to begin to open up and reveal himself that Sam’s life began to get better and his outlook on the world began to change in an incredibly positive way.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Making Time' is an Indie Time Travel Gem
Under normal circumstances I try to avoid it when a filmmaker asks me to watch their movie. Generally speaking, this is a potential disaster. What if I hate the movie? What if the movie is complete garbage? How am I supposed to write an honest, objective, critical essay about something directly to someone? Now, I have written, and will again in the future, write negative reviews, it’s part of the job of a critic, sometimes a work isn’t any good and I am paid to express that to the world.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Celebrity Interview: Nev Shulman Talks Dancing with Stars 'Controversy' and Catfish Legacy
Catfish creator and host Nev Shulman has long harbored a secret desire to be on Dancing with the Stars. Shulman, in this very interview, talks about how the shooting schedule of Catfish was what kept him from being able to take on Dancing with the Stars in the past. Now that the pandemic has forced Nev to host Catfish from home and go on without its usual globetrotting travel schedule, suddenly, Nev found himself with the time and opportunity to be part of Dancing with the Stars and have the experience he secretly desired. I recently spoke with Nev Shulman and you can listen to this interview as a podcast linked here, or read along.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Celebrity Interview: Alexa Nisenson Aka Charlie on Fear The Walking Dead
In my job as an entertainment writer and reporter, I get some really cool experiences and one of those cool experiences recently was getting to interview Alexa Nisenson from Fear The Walking Dead. If you’d like to listen to this interview as a podcast you can find it here .
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Ms White Light is a Lovely Surprise
Lex (Roberta Collindrez) has a rather mysterious gift. Her job has her sit at the bedside of a person who is dying and give them comfort. Despite her baggy brown suit, unkempt hair, and generally odd manner, Lex has a way of reaching out to those who are dying in ways that members of the family or the medical profession cannot. Lex’s gift is seemingly supernatural and she genuinely helps people accept death in a way that brings great comfort to those who let go.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Possessor' is Visually Dynamic, Creepy and Violent
Possessor has me vexed. This sci-fi horror movie from the son of legendary director David Cronenberg, Brandon Cronenberg, is visually dynamic and compelling in a disturbing fashion. But, what is the movie about? I am not sure I know what Brandon Cronenberg is intending to say with this movie that carries themes about identity, gender, violence and psychopathy. It’s a film packed with ideas but none of those ideas resonates as much as I believe they should.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Cagefighter: Worlds Collide'
Cagefighter: Worlds Collide stars Alex ‘Mean’ Montagnani as Reiss Gibbons, the Light Heavyweight Champion of the World in Legends MMA, the film approximation of UFC. Gina Gershon co-stars as Max, the Dana White character, a promoter always on the lookout for the big money fight. Max appears to have found her next big money fight when she books a professional wrestler named Randy Stone (AEW star Jonathan ‘Moxley’ Good) to face Reiss.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'The Lie' is an Unintentionally Laugh Out Loud Comedy
The Lie is one of the dumber movies I have seen in a long while. This sleezy production from Blumhouse Productions, better known for cheap horror, than anything remotely like The Lie, wants to put you in the awkward position of being the parents of a child who has murdered a friend. The filmmakers want you to ask what you would do in order to protect your child from going to prison for murder. For a good person, this question is very easy. For the low brain-power characters of The Lie it’s a plot contrivance.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 'Once Upon a River' Despair in the Form of a Movie
Once Upon a River is as close that movies have come to portraying unending despair outside of holocaust documentaries. The suffering on display in Once Upon a River may be mostly emotional for the protagonist, a teenage half native American girl, but it is so unending and unflinchingly presented, that it falls over viewers like London fog, deep, thick, and unsparing in its consumption of all around it.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Alive' Starring Angus MacFadyen (Not the good Netflix 'Alive')
This review is something of an experiment. I am hoping that by the end of this writing I will know for sure whether or not I actually like or don’t like the newly released horror movie, Alive starring Angus MacFadyen. I am genuinely of two minds on the movie. On one hand, I watched all the way to the end and I really wanted to know how it all turned out. On the other hand, the lead performances are mediocre at best and only the clumsy mystery at the center of the story kept me watching.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Keeper' Arrives at the Exact Wrong Time
Now is not the time for the movie The Keeper. A movie highlighting a story of reconciliation between victims of the Nazis and a Nazi soldier has no place in a world where Nazi propaganda and fascism is once again on the rise. Regardless of the good intentions at the heart of the movie and at the heart of the filmmakers, we need not demonstrate compassion or acceptance for people who fight on the side of Nazi ideology no matter how much they claim that they did so against their will.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Cleats
Documentary Review: 'Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own'
As a younger man I hated the art world. I hated the pretension, the excess, the ludicrous amounts of money paid for creations that made no logical sense to my immature mind. I still have some issues with the money spent on art in a country where we still have people living hand to mouth. That said, I have come around somewhat on the art world in general. The market for art is about people with money, the art is about the artist.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
