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: 'Deep Water' is a Dreary 'Erotic' Thriller
Hey, you know who doesn’t need a comeback right now? Director Adrian Lyne. No time in our collective popular culture could be any less suited for the kind of sleazy, sexist, trope heavy sex thriller that Lyne specialized in in the 1980s. While his Fatal Attraction is certainly an unforgettable movie, it was also an ugly, misogynistic, chauvinistic, sleazefest that blamed men’s infidelity on these predatory women always out to turn good men into cheaters.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
The Anxiety of Watching John Travolta Eat Pizza in Saturday Night Fever. Top Story - March 2022.
Has anyone ever noticed how John Travotla’s character, Tony Manero, in Saturday Night Fever eats pizza? It’s an odd question, I know, but as I sat down to watch Saturday Night Fever as the classic on the Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast, I noticed that Tony stops for pizza on his way to work during the iconic Staying Alive credits sequence. He orders two slices of pizza, New York Style.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Feast
Movie Review: 'The Adam Project' is a Terrific Time Travel Adventure
The Adam Project stars Ryan Reynolds in the role of Adam Reed. Adam is a pilot in some unspecified dystopian future where time travel has not only been discovered, it’s been used for nefarious purposes. When Adam decides to fight back and steal a time traveling spaceship, he ends up getting shot before jumping back in time to the year 2022. There, Adam plants his ship in the trees behind his childhood home and meets his 12 year old self, played by Walker Scobell.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Song for Cesar' Documents the Music of a Movement
From pain, anguish, and strife often comes the greatest works of art. This has been true throughout civilization but in certain areas, it was crystalized. Flashpoints of great pain and suffering are marked in human history by great works of art and a strong example of that comes in the art that was born from the fields of toil in California in the 1940s to the 1960s and 1970s, much of it inspired by a man named Cesar Chavez.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: Childish 'Win a Trip to Browntown' Hopes Infamy Sells
Win a Trip to Browntown is one of the most bizarre movies ever made. At once a wholesome family sitcom and a movie that believes anal sex is the funniest idea in the history of man, the very existence of Win a Trip to Browntown boggles the mind. How did any sane person think this was a good idea for a movie? The premise has a man betting his wife with him earning the chance to have anal sex with her if he wins. Who is this movie for?
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Filthy
Movie Review: 'Moon Manor' is One of the Best of 2022 So Far
Moon Manor is one of the best movies of 2022. This lovely ode to a life well lived coming to an end features a main character unlike any I have seen in a very long time. James Carozzo is a man who was on the fringes of Hollywood for many years. He was a hippie who tried out for the musical Hair before moving to Hollywood where he found work in Cabarets, nightclubs and on cruise ships where he always delighted audiences.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Heckle' starring Steve Guttenberg
It’s almost hard to believe that at one time, Steve Guttenberg was a major Hollywood star. Coming off of his terrifically fun role in Police Academy in 1984, Guttenberg became a highly marketable talent. He got more than sequel out of The Police Academy movies, to declining interest each time and managed to squander the significant goodwill he’d accrued in Police Academy, a movie many people still love today.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Huda's Salon'
Huda’s Salon begins on the most mundane note. Two women in a hair salon are having a conversation typical of the setting. Huda (Manal Awad) is a kindly hairdresser having a friendly working friendship with Reema (Maisa Abd Elhadi). For nearly 10 minutes we listen as Reema explains the trouble in her marriage to Said (Samer Bisharat) and how controlling and jealous he is. If you are paying attention you can see a quick shift in Huda’s demeanor as the conversation turns to Said and his jealousy. It’s subtle but it’s there and it is the trigger for the rest of the story.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'I Am Here'
In 2019, a group of white nationalists in South Africa started engaging in Holocaust denial. One woman, a longtime resident of South Africa, responded not by meeting their hate and ignorance with more hate but by bravely asking these young men to meet with her and talk with her and hear her story. That woman’s name is Ella Blumenthal, she’s 98 years old and she survived stints in three different German extermination camps during World War 2.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in The Swamp
Movie Review: 'The World Ends at Camp Z'
World Ends at Camp Z is a low budget zombie movie that, though it may look like a horror comedy, takes its premise deathly seriously. Directed by Ding Wang, what looks like it should be a wild horror comedy quickly establishes itself as a dire waiting game as interchangeable characters are introduced, bicker in desperately unfunny fashion, and wait for zombies to show up and make a meal of them.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Batman & Me'
Batman & Me is a meandering and mildly entertaining documentary about one man’s obsession with collecting. You might assume that the movie is about what drives someone to become obsessed with a particular brand of pop culture to an all-encompassing degree. The reality is sadly more mundane and mildly amusing. Though the documentary seems to promise a greater insight into the mind of collectors, what we ultimately get in Batman & Me is that sometimes people become obsessed and it’s only a notable aspect of their life.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Dear Mr. Brody'
In 1970 a man named Michael Brody, the little known heir to a margarine fortune, became the most talked about person on the planet by offering to give away his multi-million dollar fortune. A self-described hippie, Michael Brody had been known by friends as a lonely but very generous young man. Mostly abandoned by his rich parents, Michael grew up in the care of nannies and housekeepers and developed a disdain for the fortune he would one day inherit.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
