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: 'Air Doll' is Bold Strange and Fascinating
The movie Air Doll was originally released in 2009 and it flew completely under my radar. Thankfully, our friends at Dekanalog have rescued this lovely, thoughtful and thoroughly strange melodrama about a blow up sex doll that comes to life. That sounds a little like an inverse take on Lars and the Real Girl and the movies do carry a similar sense of whimsical melancholy. Air Doll is far more absurdist than the sweet Lars but if you liked one you may enjoy the other.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Filthy
Documentary Review: 'Worst to First: The True Story of Z100'
In May of 2022 I will have been in radio for 27 years. Naturally, that means I know and revere Scott Shannon as a legend of my business. I’ve had the privilege of hearing Scott Shannon talk about radio in interviews and in person and it never gets old. The man is an indefatigable proponent of my profession since before I was even born. So, you can imagine that when I heard someone was making a documentary about Scott Shannon’s greatest accomplishment, taking New York’s Z100 from worst in the ratings to first, I was excited.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Wolf and the Lion' Harmless Family Movie Product
The Wolf and the Lion is a harmless trifle, a modestly charming family movie with zero edge and occasionally baffling continuity. The heart of the filmmakers is mostly in the right place but you can sense the marketing strings being pulled and tears being jerked with excessive force. Based on the true story of a real life friendship between a baby wolf and baby tiger who grew up together on a Canadian island, The Wolf and the Lion is inelegant but harmless.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Long Night' is a Bore
The Long Night is a remarkably dull and derivative horror movie. This story about a couple trapped in a southern plantation home by some form of powerful demonic cult paints itself into multiple corners that it has no hope of getting out of. The villains have too much power and our protagonists are a bickering couple who have zero chemistry. So that’s fun. Then the movie builds to an ending that features character motivations that shift so fast you may get whiplash trying to keep up with the silliness.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche'
If you aren’t a fan of the British punk rock wave of the late 70s and early 1980s then you may not be aware of the trailblazer known as Poly Styrene. Poly Styrene was the rebellious and distinctive voice of the punk band X-Ray Spex. The band is arguably best known for being banned by the BBC over their song “Oh Bondage, Up Yours,” an anti-authority, anti-patriarchy punk anthem that became a big hit in spite of and because of the BBC ban.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'They/Them/Us' A Sitcom Trying to be a Movie
They/ Them/Us is a modern sitcom crossed with Fifty Shades of Grey. Though the movie has some minor charm it lacks anything to truly make it special. They/Them/Us is another in a surprising yet slow growing trend of sex positive movies that have the appeal of not shaming people over their sexuality but the film also carries the tone deaf quality of a woke dad, trying way too hard to show the kids how cool he is.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes' is So Much Fun
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is one of the most fun movies I have seen recently. This delightfully oddball science fiction comedy from Japan has a brilliantly odd premise, lovable characters and a wildly inventive spirit that permeates each of its delightfully short 70 minute runtime. Directed by Junta Yamaguchi, who also acted as his own cinematographer and editor, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes isn’t merely entertaining, it’s a marvel of film technique, especially in the incredible editing.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
TV Review: Hulu's 'Pam & Tommy' Fails to Justify its existence
When I told a friend that Hulu had made a series based on the stealing of the sex tape belonging to Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee her response was a puzzled, “Why?” That simple one word question feels appropriate even after you have watched three episodes of Pam & Tommy, Hulu’s miniseries on the Pam and Tommy sex tape that was the first video to fully break the internet, in the colloquial sense. Written and directed by Craig Gillespie, the director of the similarly salacious, I, Tonya, Pam & Tommy is intended to be an absurd comic true crime story but it lands somewhere in the uncanny valley between good and bad satire.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Cyrano' Starring Peter Dinklage
Cyrano stars Peter Dinklage as Cyrano De Bergerac, legendary swordsman, soldier and wordsmith. Set in France in the 1600s, Cyrano finds our hero pining for his oldest friend, Roxanne (Haley Bennett) while she pines for a newly arrived soldier in Cyrano’s regiment. Christian De Neuvillette (Kelvin Harrison Jr) is a wide eyed new recruit who spots Roxanne in a crowd at the theater and shares a long romantic glance that each mistake for love at first sight. So powerful is this look that Roxanne arranges to meet with Cyrano to ask her friend to arrange their romance.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Charli XCX: Alone Together' Chronicles the Bond of Artist and Fan
I love fandoms. I love dedicated groups of people who take to an artist and their art and become a community. It’s an online phenomenon that did not exist when I was young and part of various fandoms. I am still a fan of many different artists and their work but I’ve never been part of a fandom and I envy those who have that connection and are able to share their love of pop ephemera with other like-minded people. I’m happy when I see a group of people who get along and are able to find a space to share their dedication to something.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
What I've Seen at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival
The Slamdance Film Festival takes place in January every year as an alternative to the more mainstream and industry friendly Sundance Film Festival. Slamdance is the punk rock to the pop music of Sundance and that is reflected in the always eclectic lineup at Slamdance. For the first time in my career I am doing some virtual coverage at the Slamdance Film Festival and I have seen some good and some great new emerging artists as well as at least one long time artist who is following his muse to a place where mainstream audiences are unlikely to follow.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
TV Review: We Need to Talk About Cosby
I believe the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault. As much as it hurts my heart to say it, the consistent and credible testimony of more than 70 women dating back to the mid-1960s and into the early 2000s, is simply undeniable. But believing that is not easy for me. As a member of Generation X, I grew up watching Bill Cosby. My first memories of my childhood are Picture Pages and Fat Albert. When The Cosby Show began I was the same age as Tempestt Bledsoe’s Vanessa.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Criminal
