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: Tom Hanks Trains a Robot to Take Care of a Dog in Finch
Finch is an overly familiar and rather limp attempt at futuristic, environmental dystopia. The film stars Tom Hanks as the title character, Finch, one of the last living humans on Earth, apparently. We don’t see many other people, others we briefly see are in the midst of being murdered. Finch manages his life by applying his engineering genius to create an enclave to hide in and a means to search for needed resources, or what’s left of those resources.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Top 5 Terrific Uses of Visual Storytelling in the Horror Movie 'Antlers'
Everyday of your life you are processing information whether you realize it or not. Whether it is something as simple as recognizing a hot surface through the context clues of heat rising from the surface or touching that surface and feeling the heat. That’s often something you can do without giving it much thought. This applies to processing visual information such as recognizing a vehicle stopped in the road and needing to stop your car to avoid an accident. These are complex in terms of the macro scale of everything that has built to this immediate situation but it is also mundane in how often you’ve done this and how you don’t linger in thoughts about doing these things.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Antlers' Starring Keri Russell
Antlers stars Keri Russell as Julia Meadows, a troubled young teacher who has moved back to her home state in Oregon to get back on her feet. Living with her younger brother Paul (Jesse Plemons), now a county sheriff, and back in their childhood home where she survived years of abuse from their father, Julia is just doing her best to stay clean and sober amid the many triggers of her past trauma. Her main focus is teaching where she has come to know a troubled little boy whom she sees some of herself in.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Last Night in Soho' is One of the Best of 2021
Last Night in Soho stars Thomasin McKenzie as Eloise, a bright and cheerful young woman who has just been accepted into university to study fashion design. With her love of all things 60s, Eloise has many bright ideas about bringing 60s fashion forward to today. Trouble is brewing behind her eyes however as we learn of what happened to Eloise’s mother, whom Eloise occasionally still sees in the mirror. I won’t say what happened to mom, you should see for yourself.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Artificial Gamer'
Several years ago a group of programmers, under the direction of Greg Brockman, set themselves a remarkable goal. Brockman’s initiative was to create an artificial intelligence that could not only compete with some of the best gamers in the world but could be capable of learning to defeat the greatest players in the world. The game Brockman chose for his project is one that has become the most lucrative and exciting in professional gaming, DOTA 2.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Gamers
Classic Horror Movie Review: 'The Descent'
6 women on a cave exploring trip find themselves face to face with underground cave-dwelling cannibals. It sounds goofy, but as executed in the sensational horror film The Descent it's a terrifying series of gory, edge of your seat, horror that you watch through your fingers. Writer-director Neil Marshall who became known as the director of the much talked about but little seen Dog Soldiers, nails moments of pure, honest ,terror, a rarity in modern horror, by using his unique location and suffocating close up photography and lighting.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
My Top 5 Favorite Horror Movies of All Time. Top Story - October 2021.
Halloween is about candy, fun, costumes and great scares. It’s also about horror movies, the official film genre of Halloween. With that in mind, I decided to lay out my list of my Top 5 All Time Favorite Horror Movies. My choices are both traditional and non-traditional. I have at least one all timer that goes on just about any list of favorite horror movies and two movies that have divided fans who either love these movies and the filmmaker behind them or loathe them. Regardless of how you feel about my list, be sure to get in touch with me and tell me what your favorite horror movies are on Twitter where my handle is @PodcastSean.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Horror Movie Review: 'Wrong Turn' (2003)
Halloween is upon us and with that the need to watch many, many horror movies. With that in mind, I have been watching horror after horror after horror movie, in my pursuit to review as many horror movies as possible. It was this quest that brought me to revisit a horror movie of my past as a critic. In 2003, I reviewed the horror movie Wrong Turn and I hated it. Was I wrong? Is my 2021 perspective different? The movie isn't, but perhaps I am a little different.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong Torres'
Many fans have created their vision of who Ben Fong Torres is based on what they saw in Cameron Crowe’s brilliant 2000 film, Almost Famous. Played by actor Terry Chen, the Ben Fong Torres of Almost Famous is a supremely laid back individual who unwittingly hires a teen aged Cameron Crowe, known as William Miller in the movie, to become a reporter for Rolling Stone. The main thing people remember about the character is that he had a catchphrase, ‘Crazy.’ Everything was ‘Crazy’ in a cool, melodic tone that was anything but crazy.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Documentary Review: 'The United States of Insanity'
My favorite writer is a man named Nathan Rabin. Nathan’s writing is funny, weird, sophisticated and distinctly his own. I admire his voice and envy the clever turns of phrase. It is because I admire Nathan so much that I was able to enter the new documentary, The United States of Insanity, a documentary about the Insane Clown Posse, with less skepticism than I am sure most critics entered with. You see, several years ago, in his brilliant book, You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me, Nathan announced that he was a Juggalo. The fact that someone who I truly hold up as a peer and inspiration is a Juggalo opened my eyes to the phenomenon, not as one that I could identify with but one I could understand and respect.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Passing' Starring Tessa Thompson
Passing stars Tessa Thompson as Irene, an upper middle class woman in 1920s New York City. Though Irene, or Reenie as some called her when she was young, is a black woman she occasionally fancies passing for a white woman using her light skinned complexion and just a little makeup. It’s the 1920s, a time in which even in a big city such as New York, there are privileges denied to people of color. It is while passing for white that Irene runs across a former childhood friend, Claire Bellew, played by Ruth Negga, in the dining hall of an upscale New York Hotel.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Dune' Starring Timothee Chalamet . Top Story - October 2021.
Describing the plot of Dune is complicated. At once it is rich and detailed storytelling and it's deeply complicated to attempt to describe. Director Denis Villeneuve, one of our finest living directors, has crafted a remarkable work of science fiction art and a satisfying blockbuster movie experience with the first part of what is clearly intended to be two movies with lengthy and ambitious stories to be told.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Futurism
