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: 'Old Henry' Starring Tim Blake Nelson
Old Henry is an old school western, gritty and violent filled with dirty, stinking wretches out for blood and money. Henry himself, played by Tim Blake Nelson, is dirty and stinky but he is, at the very least, trying to be peaceful. Henry moved to the middle of nowhere years ago to escape a past of grave violence and death. You will learn a little about Henry’s past as Old Henry unfolds but the story is almost entirely in Henry’s present where a stray horse leads Henry to a wounded man and a satchel full of ill-gotten gains.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Heval' A Hollywood Actor Makes Friends in Syria
Heval, in Kurdish, means friend or comrade. Actor turned Freedom Fighter, Michael Enright received many questions and concerns after he claimed to be a Heval of the Syrian refugee movement. The former deep bench supporting player in the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Enright joined the U.S backed Kurdish Militia to fight ISIS in 2015. The new Curiosity Stream original documentary, Heval, examines the mystery surrounding the actor turned unlikely soldier, the doubts surrounding his account and the evidence that may show he’s sincere.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Serve
Movie Review: 'The Survivalist' Starring John Malkovich
The Survivalist is a new pandemic thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the owner of a large piece of land in Pennsylvania living peacefully away from the regular world where COVID-19 has mutated and caused mass death. Meyers’ Ben is a former FBI Agent with a stockpile of weapons and food who smartly began to prepare for this situation just as things started to get very, very bad.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Coming Home in the Dark'
Coming Home in the Dark is a grim and fearsome revenge movie. The story of a family that takes a day trip to a New Zealand mountain range only to be assaulted and kidnapped by thieves with a secret agenda, Coming Home in the Dark quickly becomes shocking and never really lets up from there. Directed by newcomer James Ashcroft, Coming Home in the Dark is about the past, the present and the complicity of inaction.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Napoleon Dynamite'
Starting at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival we began hearing raves about a little $400,000 dollar indie called Napoleon Dynamite. The film about a nerdy Idaho kid and his weird family and friends became a hit at arthouses and online where fan-sites spouted dialogue and debated the film’s deeper meanings even before the film became a mainstream smash. Once Napoleon Dynamite did hit the mainstream in wide release the hype proved to be very real, Napoleon Dynamite was a phenomenon.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen' Starring Ben Platt
Try-hard is a term used to describe people who desperately want to be accepted by a group of people but their effort renders them pathetic and roundly rejected. Try-hard is an apt description of the new Broadway film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen. The film starring Ben Platt as the title character, Evan, tries very hard to make you like Evan and identify with him, and feel sorry for his outsider plight. However, the sweaty, pathetic obviousness of the attempt renders it completely unwelcome.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'The Village Detective: A Song Cycle'
Filmmaker Bill Morrison and I share a fascination with old movies, specifically those that have been mostly lost to time. His remarkable found footage documentary Dawson City Frozen Time explored the decaying beauty of silent films found buried in a former gold mining outpost. Some of the films were far too gone to be restored while others were remarkably well kept in that frozen tomb. Morrison shared both the decayed and well preserved, edited together to tell the story of Dawson City, a place with a very unique history all its own.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Hester Street' Starring Carol Kane
For those who might only know actress Carol Kane from her work on television in the series Taxi or, far more recently, the Netflix comedy, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, you might not be aware that Carol Kane is an Oscar nominee. In 1975, Kane co-starred in the movie Hester Street and her thoughtful, sweet and vulnerable performance as Jewish mother arriving in America at the turn of the 20th Century earned her a nomination for Best Actress. Kane lost out to Louise Fletcher’s daringly dastardly performance as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Last Night in Rozzie'
Last Night in Rozzie is a complicated story about relationships. From friendships to marriages to parent and child relationships, Last Night in Rozzie has a lot of different types of relationship dramas to navigate around. The film stars Neil Brown Jr as Ronnie Russo, a kid from Rozzie, a suburb of Boston, real name Roslindale. Ronnie Russo is a rare Rozzie success story in that he made it out of the lower middle class suburb and made something of himself in the big city.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Best Sellers' Starring Aubrey Plaza
Best Sellers is a frustratingly conventional movie about two opposites forced to work together. It’s frustrating because this highly conventional comedy premise stars the remarkably unconventional Aubrey Plaza. Aubrey is far too interesting for a conventional comedy. Her talent for spiky line delivery and brilliantly awkward comedy defies convention. See movies like Black Bear or Safety Not Guaranteed or even a movie of hers that I don’t care for like Ingrid Goes West. Regardless of the role, or the quality of the movie, Aubrey Plaza can’t be confined by plot.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' Starring Clint Eastwood
The Outlaw Josey Wales stars Clint Eastwood in the title role of a man with a deep and abiding dedication to revenge. When Union soldiers in Missouri after the Civil War, murder Josey’s wife and son, he quickly joins up with a group Southern resistance fighters, led by Fletcher (John Vernon). This resistance however, doesn’t last long and soon enough, Fletcher is advising his men to turn themselves over to the enemy in exchange for their lives.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Little Girl'
Little Girl is a heart-rending documentary about the struggles of a little girl who was born a boy. Sasha was born a boy but by a very early age, she began to express to her mother that she was really a boy. Sasha’s parents, at first, dismissed their child’s gender questions but, eventually, they were forced to come around. Now, they are tangling with schools, and bullies and Russian ballet coaches who keep working to make Sasha’s life far more difficult than it should be.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Pride
