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: 'The Harder They Fall' Starring Idris Elba
The Harder they Fall stars Jonathan Majors as Nat Love, an outlaw in the old west and leader of the Nat Love Gang, a criminal outfit that robs other criminals. Joining Nat are his lady love, Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz), Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi), Jim Beckworth (R.J Cyler) and Mary’s right hand, Cuffee (Danielle Deadwyler). Together they battle other gangs and rob them to enrich themselves while Nat pursues a lifelong revenge.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain begins on such a painful note of whimsy that I thought I might gag on it. The first time we meet Benedict Cumberbatch, in the role of real life artist Louis Wain, the performance is so mannered, so broad, and so deeply affected that it feels like a Saturday Night Live parody. It doesn’t help that the early cinematography choices, handheld and bumpy, looks grainy in a way very similar to SNL shorts, those pre-taped bits SNL occasionally does.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Lamb' Starring Noomi Rapace
Lamb is a bizarre and brilliant new film from Icelandic filmmaker Valdimar Johannson. The film stars Noomi Rapace as Maria and Hilmur Snaer Guonason as Maria’s husband, Ingvar. The two lead a rather mundane life as sheep herders and farmers in a lonely but utterly gorgeous patch of land in Iceland. Their existence is serene and routine, tending to the sheep, fixing the tractor, tilling the land for planting and harvesting, and so on.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Subject' Starring Jason Biggs
The Subject is an exciting new drama about a documentarian who finds himself on the other side of the camera in the wake of a tragedy that occurred during the making of his recent award winning documentary. Jason Biggs stars in The Subject as Phil Waterhouse, an award winning documentary filmmaker who harbors guilt over the death of one of the subjects of his last documentary, for which he was lavished with awards and praise.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Last Duel Starring Matt Damon
The Last Duel stars Jody Comer as Marguerite, a daughter of privilege traded like property to Squire and future Knight, Jean De Carrouges (Matt Damon). She’s also the object of the affections of Carrouges' long time friend turned enemy, Jacques LeGris (Adam Driver). In the course of The Last Duel we will see the same story told from each of these three perspectives but only Marguerite’s is actually treated as ‘The Truth.’
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Halloween Kills' Starring Jamie Lee Curtis
Halloween Kills stars Jamie Lee Curtis once again in the role of Laurie Strode. If you recall the previous entry in this franchise, you will remember that Laurie, along with her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), trapped Michael Myers/The Shape, inside of Laurie’s home and set the place on fire. It appeared that they’d put a stop to Michael for good but the next time we see them, riding to the hospital to save Laurie’s life, firefighters are on their way to an unfortunate rescue.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Introducing Selma Blair'
Introducing Selma Blair is a work of raw, passionate honesty. It’s a revealing look at a disease that anyone who doesn’t suffer from it, wants to look away from. No looking away here however, as the famed star of Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde pulls back the curtain and brings you inside the turbulent trial of a person with Multiple Sclerosis and all that that diagnosis entails, broad swaths of physical and emotional pain and a desperate search for hope amid the turmoil.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Retaliators'
The Retaliators stars Michael Lombardi as Bishop, a widowed pastor in a small town. His life is rather perfect, raising two beautiful daughters, teenager Sarah (Katie Kelly) and pre-teen, Rebecca (Abbey Hafer), and overseeing a thriving parish. Familial tension arises mostly through restrictions like curfews and time spent looking at phones. There is also a small matter of Sarah thinking her dad isn’t strong as we watch him allow a bully to take the Christmas tree he and his daughter’s had just chosen from a tree lot. Bishop sees this as a teachable moment about turning the other cheek. Sarah sees it as weakness.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'The Velvet Underground' from Director Todd Haynes
The Velvet Underground was unlike any other band in rock history. Presented like an art show, under the guidance of legendary pop art provocateur Andy Warhol, the band was living art in New York City in the late 1960s. The Velvet Underground with cantankerous and charismatic lead singer Lou Reed, sonic scientist John Cale on piano and viola, glass ceiling busting drummer Moe Tucker, and guitarist Sterling Morrison, were the combustible elements of a genre busting, new kind of rock stardom.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Bergman Island' Starring Vicky Krieps
Bergman Island stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as a couple of married filmmakers who travel to Sweden, and to Faro Island, the spiritual and actual home of the legendary filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman. Bergman filmed his most celebrated films on Faro Island, including Scenes from A Marriage. In fact, our main characters, Chris and Tony, are ominously staying in the very home in which the famed movie that launched a thousand divorces was shot.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Hard Luck Love Song'
Singer Albert King once sang “If it wasn’t for Bad Luck, I would not have no luck at all” in his legendary song Born Under a Bad Sign (1968). That poetic and poignant lament perfectly suits the protagonist of the drama, Hard Luck Love Song. Jesse, played by Michael Dorman, has more than his share of bad luck but much of it is his own fault. Working as a pool hustler in Nashville, Tennessee is not the safest or smartest activity. Hustling pool tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth of those who are subject to the hustle and thus Jesse often finds himself in a bad way.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: God Told Me To
God Told Me To is a 1976 horror-thriller from legendary B-movie director Larry Cohen and it’s a movie that deserves a chance for a remake. Inside of God Told Me To there is a very good religious based horror movie dying to get out. Sadly, Larry Cohen only found the seeds of that great horror movie and never fully cultivated those seeds into a satisfying final product. What we get instead is a half of an excellent movie and half of a bizarre, outlandish and outright terrible movie.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
