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 Night House' Starring Rebecca Hall
The Night House stars Rebecca Hall as Beth, a recently widowed teacher dealing with the aftermath of her husband, Owen’s, suicide. Deeply disillusioned and jaded by her husband’s decision to kill himself, Beth struggles to not be the subject of anyone’s pity. Beth would like little more than to get back to her life and go back to work and put the past behind her but something in her home continues to draw her back toward grief.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'No Time To Die' Starring Daniel Craig
No Time to Die is the best James Bond movie of the Daniel Craig era. That’s not particularly high praise coming from me as I have not enjoyed a James Bond movie since the Roger Moore era and that was mostly a so bad it’s good appreciation of A View to a Kill. For me, James Bond went out of fashion when the Cold War ended. Since then, better and more dynamic spy characters, such as Matt Damon’s super-spy Jason Bourne came along and revamped the spy genre.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Detention'
Detention is a Taiwanese horror movie that uses the tools of the genre to tell a story of Taiwanese history and the vile threat of authoritarian dictatorship. Directed by John Hsu, Detention is based on a video game, of the same title, from Red Candle Games that was released in 2017. Both the game and the movie make use of the aesthetics of horror to tell a deeper and richer story in a clever package.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'South of Heaven' Starring Jason Sudeikis. Top Story - October 2021.
Annie (Evangeline Lilly) is dying. Annie has lung cancer and has been given between 9 and 12 months before her life ends. The diagnosis is recent enough that she got it just before her long term fiancé, 12 years to be precise, Jimmy Ray (Jason Sudeikis) was to go in front of a parole board. Jimmy has spent almost the entirety of their engagement behind bars. It might seem convenient when he tells of Annie’s prognosis in front of the parole board but what you come to find out about Jimmy Ray is that bad luck and timing are a big part of his life.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
My Favorite Movies from the 52nd Annual Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival was held from September 30th to October 6th of 2021 and I was lucky enough to attend the festival, virtually. I would have loved to be there in person but my capacity as a full time radio host and my duties with the Critics Choice Documentary Awards and my gig reviewing general release movies, meant that there was no getting away from home and only the chance to see several select movies from the Nashville Film Festival. For this article I settled on three movies that I loved the most from my time virtually attending the Nashville Film Festival.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Venom Let There Be Carnage' Starring Tom Hardy
Venom Let There Be Carnage is a very quirky comic book action movie. Directed by Andy Serkis, the man who gave physical life to Gollum in Lord of the Rings, Venom Let There Be Carnage appears far more interested in the relationship between between Venom, the alien symbiote being that eats human heads, and Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), the reporter turned body host for Venom. But the question is: What does Andy Serkis have to say about the relationship between Venom and Eddie Brock?
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Guilty' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal
The Guilty is an American remake of a 2018 Danish thriller that was based very loosely on real events. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the American version of The Guilty is one of the fastest paced and most exciting movies of 2021. This can be attributed to Fuqua, a talented action director whose style translates shockingly well to a drama about one man and a phone bank. Of course, The Guilty would not work as well as it does without star Jake Gyllenhaal, an actor with more than enough presence and charisma to carry a movie all by himself.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Many Saints of Newark'
The Many Saints of Newark stars Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisant, a gangster in Newark, New Jersey circa the late 1960s, running numbers and stealing trucks to resell the goods inside. Typical gangster stuff. Dickie is a high ranking member of the Soprano Crime Family, headed up by Johnny Boy Soprano (Jon Bernthal) and his little brother Junior (Corey Stoll). Dickie has his own crew of Italian stereotypes who follow his orders.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Five Movies to Watch for at the 52nd Annual Nashville Film Festival
The 52nd Annual Nashville Film Festival began on September 30th and runs through October 6th, 2021. Several feature films will be part of the presentation at the Nashville Film Festival and below are 5 of the movies to keep an eye at the festival and to look forward to after the festival as they move out toward wider audiences. I have the distinct privilege of being able to virtually attend the Festival and here’s what I am looking forward to…
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'American Night' Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I would tell you that I hate the new movie American Night starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jeremy Piven but, I’m not sure what it is that I hate? Truly, is this a movie? It's more like pure chaos in the shape of a movie. Between the sub-Tarantino attempt at mixing up chapters or character perspectives, the baffling attempts at what I think is humor, or the pointless, meaningless, character death and violence, there are so many things to hate about American Night that I am almost too tired to care enough to hate American Night.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Implanted'
Implanted stars Michelle Girolami as Sarah, a struggling young woman, recently let go from her job. Needing money to find a place to live, Sarah decides to join a medical study that promises a $20,000 payment. By joining this strange experiment, Sarah agrees to have a device implanted into her back that will speak to her as if she had Siri in her brain that only she can hear. The goal of the implanted device is to help with mental health and self improvement by having the chip monitor health and mental conditions and tell the user if anything is wrong.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'The Jesus Music'
The Jesus Music is an entirely unnecessary documentary on the history of Christian Music. It features a series of well known artists delivering talking head monologues about their career with very dry anecdotes of little interest outside of the niche of people who follow Contemporary Christian Music and likely already know these stories. Directed by John and Andy Erwin, The Jesus Music does little to justify its own existence.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
