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: 'Children of Sin' is Better Poster than a Movie
Children of Sin has a terrific movie poster. The poster is 80’s style, hand drawn, animated art that evokes the aesthetic of direct to VHS horror movie discoveries of the 1980s. It’s a great poster that creates an aesthetic expectation that is sadly unfulfilled in the actual movie. Whereas the poster is distinctive and eye-catching, the movie is indistinct and rather by the numbers in style and in execution.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Room 203' Hopes You Are Afraid of the Dark
Room 203 is yet another horror movie that mistakes darkness for atmosphere. This by the numbers exercise in haunted house and demon possession tropes is, at times, so dark, in terms of what you can see, that trying to follow the story is impossible. Perhaps the movie might look better on a big screen, but watching on a professionally set up HD Television, I felt like I was staring into a dark room while stock music played.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'We're All Going to the World's Fair' is a Terrifically Moody ARG Horror Movie. Top Story - April 2022.
One of my favorite YouTube rabbit holes to fall into is Alternate Reality Games or ARG’s. An ARG is an interactive online mystery that invites people watching and participating to keep track of and document clues to a central mystery. These stories often involve elements of true crime, they begin with a murder or an urban legend, they have suspects and clues and make use of YouTube, Reddit and various other forms of social media to expand the mystery in unique ways. The stories are densely packed and easy to get lost in for a few hours.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Ambulance' is an Early Worst of 2022 Contender
Ambulance is a singularly insipid entry in the canon of spectacle director Michael Bay. The action movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul Mateen II set mostly inside an ambulance provides no suspense, stock characters, and a bizarre approach to story logic. A pair of adopted brothers go in on a bank heist and wind up with hostages in an ambulance, including a dying Police Officer, and somehow a movie with this premise has no excitement whatsoever.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Phantom of the Open' Polishes the Legend of the Worst Golfer of All Time
The story of Maurice Flitcroft is legendary among golfers. I can remember hearing about Flitcroft as the son of a Golf Club Pro. My Dad loved the story of Maurice Flitcroft and I can recall him laughing about it when Flitcroft would rise back to the headlines. Flitcroft’s legend is little known outside the golf world and that fact makes the new movie, The Phantom of the Open a welcome reminder of a colorful and unique sports story.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' is Surprisingly Good
When I had read that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was more than 2 hours long and included a mid-credits scene, I was expecting to be deeply impatient and unhappy. It really is rather inconsiderate to make a kids movie that lasts more than 90 to 95 unless you’re Pixar. Fact of the matter is that the target audience for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is not one expected to have an attention span to be in a public place for more than 2 hours.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once' is My Favorite Movie . Top Story - April 2022.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is my new favorite movie. This gloriously chaotic comedy drama from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, is an epic of galaxy-brained thought experiments, love, despair, and everything in between. While the Multiverse is a concept most often given over to Marvel movies in our modern pop culture, it’s also a real theoretical and philosophical concept and Everything Everywhere All at Once plays out the theoretical and philosophical concept to an absurdly brilliant degree to explore the relationship between a mother and a daughter and the choices that made them who they are.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: '7 Days' Gives the Pandemic the Romantic Comedy Treatment
7 Days is a romantic comedy set in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, those uncertain days when people thought the virus was everywhere and on everything. Karan Soni and Geraldine Viswanathan star as Ravi and Rita, Indian Americans navigating the traditions of arranged marriage and the American style of dating and dating and dating. When Ravi and Rita were arranged for a date by their marriage-hungry mothers, they had no plans to see each other much past the first date.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Morbius' is the Disaster We All Expected it to Be
Morbius is pretty much the mess that everyone has been predicting since it was announced that the famed Marvel vampire anti-hero was headed to the big screen. Starring Jared Leto, this lurid monster movie fails in many ways but most abundantly as a way of introducing Morbius to Sony’s bargain bin version of the MCU. Who is Michael Morbius? What is his motivation? What is his relationship with Spider-Man? Who the heck knows? I’ve seen this movie and I am more confused than ever.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Kicking Blood' is a Nice Twist on the Vampire Genre
Kicking Blood stars Alanna Bale as Anna, a vampire. Anna has a taste for blood and while she is a murderer, she tends to enact her need for blood on bad people who deserve to have their life force sucked out by a vampire. Her first kill, that we see, is that of a man who works at the same library where Anna works. First, Anna witnesses this jerk breaking the heart of her elderly co-worker all while also acting creepy toward Anna.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Bubble' is a Complete Unfunny Disaster
The Bubble stars Karen Gillan, at the head of an ensemble cast, as a movie star being convinced to return to an action movie franchise she thought that she had left behind. Gillan’s Carol Cobb became a star in the Cliff Beasts franchise and appeared in 4 of the 5 Cliff Beasts films before abandoning the 5th sequel in favor of making a terrible prestige picture where she played a half Israeli, half Palestinian woman at the heart of the middle east crisis. If you can’t see why that’s a problematic role, one look at a picture of Karen Gillan should explain things.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Lost City' is So Much Fun
The Lost City is the movie I needed right now. This delightful comedy about an author struggling with her place in the world and getting pushed back into the world following the death of her husband, several years earlier, finds just the right mix of fun and lovable characters. The scene stealer though is Channing Tatum whose comedy chops have never been put to better use. If you loved his work in 21 and 22 Jumpstreet, then The Lost City is a must see.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
