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: 'Blackbird' Solid Family Drama
Blackbird stars Susan Sarandon as Lily, the matriarch of a family dominated by strong willed women. As the story unfolds, Lily has made the choice to end her life before the disease that is slowly degenerating her body can end it for her. Lily wants the chance to say goodbye and go out on her own terms, even if it means having to have her husband, a doctor, Paul (Sam Neill) break all sorts of laws to achieve her end.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Families
'Remember Me' Remains the Strangest and Most Inappropriate 9/11 Movie Ever
As I write this essay, it is September 11th, 2020, 19 years removed from one of the most monumental tragedies in American history. As I ponder 9/11 and reflect on my memories now filtered through nearly two full decades of pop culture criticism, I find myself struck by one strange memory that has nagged at me for over a decade. Hollywood and September 11th as seen through the perspective of the 2010 teen romance Remember Me.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Rent A Pal' IFC Midnight as Midnight Movie Hit on Its Hands
Rent A Pal starring Wil Wheaton and Brian Landis Folkins is a trip. Set in 1990, this story about a man who rents himself a friend on a VHS tape has atmosphere for days and a pair of lead performances with electrifyingly weird intensity. Themes of loneliness, depression and mental illness linger like a hazy fog that rarely lifts. Moments of joy are punctuated by creeptastic moments of dark comedy and despair.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Birds of Prey' Gives Us the Harley Quinn We Always Wanted
Birds of Prey is as fun and exciting as Suicide Squad was bad and forgettable. The character of Harley Quinn as embodied by Margot Robbe, escaped the disaster that was Suicide Squad and has come out the other side a bigger and more bankable star than ever. Not many actors can say that starring in a bad movie worked out for the best but Robbe taking the character of Harley from Suicide Squad to Birds of Prey does just that, it worked out for one of the best D.C movies.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Rhythm Section' Dreary Action Movie Rehash
The Rhythm Section is an intensely boring action thriller that takes the supremely charismatic Blake Lively and somehow renders her bland. It seems impossible based off of Lively’s performances in The Shallows and A Simple Favor that any movie could dim her star appeal but somehow, The Rhythm Section does just that. This thriller is a dismal, dreary affair that fails to capitalize on a revenge premise and especially on a cast that includes Blake Lively, Jude Law and Sterling K Brown.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Turning' Fails as Literary Adaptation and Modern Scare-Fest
The Turning stars Mackenzie Davis (Tully) as the new Governess, Kate, at one of those only in the movies, dusty old mansions where every creaky floorboard is likely a malevolent spirit looking to slam a door. Kate has just been hired to replace a Governess who left abruptly, you get no points for guessing what happened to her, though the movie pretends that the fate of the previous Governess is a mystery.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Gentlemen' is One of My Favorites of 2020
The Gentlemen is one of those movies that sneaks up on you with how clever it is. This lighthearted yet unabashedly violent and filthy-mouthed flick from Guy Ritchie is light on its feet, supremely charming, and still comes off like classic tough guy cinema. It’s everything people like me have wanted from Director Guy Ritchie since he sold his soul to corporate Hollywood to make boring blockbusters.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Grudge' 2020 Sequel or Remake or Just Not Good?
Is The Grudge a remake? A Sequel? A reimagining? Who cares? The Grudge is bad and that is the simple fact of this far too soon rehash of something that hasn’t even had the time to develop any notable fan nostalgia. The Japanese original made waves at the international box office in 2002 and was snapped up for a quickie, Americanized remake in 2004 starring Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michele Geller.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Entwined' Greek Horror Thriller is Too Familiar
You want some advice, dear reader? If someone tells you that a person or place is cursed, believe them. This goes double if you are a character in a movie. Generally speaking, a curse always exists in a movie. Any time elderly towns-people warn some young whipper-snapper that such and such castle is cursed or ‘no one goes into the curse forest,’ no one listens and people end up dead. We’ve seen it thousands of times and the new foreign thriller Entwined has only a minor twist on the convention.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Nail in the Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro'
If you were like me in the early 2000’s you probably wrote off the wrestler, Vampiro, as another failed experiment during the death throes of World Championship Wrestling’s final days. His was a face among many chucked into a stable of wrestlers, referred to as The New Blood, and because the group was about 30 wrestlers strong, not many stood out. Vampiro would have only one memorable moment during that time, a program with wrestling legend Sting that ended with a savage but ultimately failing match that took place in a graveyard.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Mulan' Feels Alive and Vital in Live Action Adaptation
Mulan 2020 is a handsome production, an epic of classic Disney imagination. Directed by the outstanding Niki Caro (Whale Rider), the story feels vital and alive and the production design is spectacular. Whether or not you’ve seen and loved the animated Mulan of the 1990’s I can imagine you falling head over heels for this splendid family adventure that empowers not only women but children in general to follow their hearts and engage in imaginative, heroic, adventure.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Using the Power of Tik Tok to Reunite a Child with a Toy. Top Story - August 2020.
It was a normal Friday as I sat in my talk radio studio in Kewanee, Illinois. I was working on a news broadcast when I looked out my window and saw Floppy. My radio station, WKEI Am 1450 in Kewanee, Illinois, sits on the Corner of one of the busiest intersections in our town. Across the street, I saw a stuffed rabbit lying on the ground and my heart broke for a moment before I leapt up, ran to the door, dodged into traffic and grabbed the stuffed bunny several feet before a Fed Ex truck was going to unknowingly run over it.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Lifehack
