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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My Father and His Bradford Pear Tree
To call my dad stubborn would be insufficient. He wasn’t merely stubborn, he was intractable. When he set his mind to something it was a guarantee that he would not budge from that position. He was, in many ways, quite different from the tree that he spent so much of his time defending. The legendary Bradford Pear tree is notoriously sensitive to the elements. It’s branches fall in the weakest of breeze, most are born barren and when they do bear fruit it’s rarely on any kind of expectation.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Earth
Movie Review: 'Karen' Starring Taryn Manning
Karen stars Taryn Manning as the ultimate embodiment of toxic white privilege, the living meme of Karen. Karen is an openly bigoted and unhinged fascist who becomes triggered a when she finds out that her new neighbors are a black couple, Malik and Amani, played by Cory Hardrict and Jasmine Burke. Karen can’t stand having black neighbors and her mask of civility falls away almost immediately as she schemes to get the couple to move out as quickly as they moved in.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Moneyball' Starring Brad Pitt
Moneyball is a baseball movie but you need not be a baseball fan to enjoy it. The intricacy of Brad Pitt's performance, the way his mind works, his various quirks and ticks are so intriguing that he could be talking about stocks, CIA assassinations, or romancing a romantic comedy leading lady and you would be equally engaged. Pitt’s version of real life baseball executive Billy Beane is a full bodied performance, Pitt vibrates restlessly as if his ideas were generated by a constantly whirring unseen engine.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Candyman' 2021
Candyman 2021 stars Yahya Abdul Mateen II as Anthony, a rising star in the Chicago art world. Anthony has been struggling of late since he and his girlfriend, Brianna (Teyonna Parris) moved to their new apartment. In need of inspiration, Anthony becomes enamored with a story Brianna’s brother Troy (Nathan Stewart Jarrett) tells one night over drinks. Troy tells the story of Helen and The Candyman, an entity that can be summoned by saying his name 5 times.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Candyman' 1992
Candyman 1992 stars Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle, a grad student working on a thesis on urban legends. With her best friend, Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) co-writing the thesis, the two have begun to investigate a very particular legend, that of the Candyman. An exposition professor, played with righteous pomposity by Michael Culkin, explains that Candyman (Tony Todd) was a former slave turned painter who was lynched in the late 18th century after fathering a child with a white woman, the wife of a plantation owner.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'CODA' Starring Emilia Jones
CODA or Child of Deaf Adults was a huge festival hit in early 2021. The film debuted to huge ovations at the Sundance Film Festival and set a record when Apple TV bought the movie for a rumored $25 million dollars. With all of that buzz and hype you must be wondering, 'why have I never heard of CODA?' Great question, I wish I knew the answer. CODA is a really good family drama that Apple TV bought at a premium and spent nothing to promote.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'He's All That' Starring Addison Rae
He’s All That is slightly less offensive than the 1999 original, She's All That. That’s pretty much the nicest thing I can say about this dreary, derivative excuse for product placement. Director Mark Waters long ago gave up on trying to make actual movies, preferring to cash paychecks for young adult products not worthy of taking up space on movie theater screens. It makes sense that his work is now on streaming television, his ambition is barely above that of a low rent television show.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: '2001 A Space Odyssey'
I have no excuse to write a full length review of 2001 A Space Odyssey in 2021. It's not celebrating an Anniversary, it's not new to 4K or the Criterion Collection. I have nothing remotely to tie this movie to other than my desire to sit and experience it again on my 50+ inch flat screen television, the one great indulgence of my life, more expensive than my car. (That's only a slight exaggeration.)
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Futurism
Documentary Review: 'Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed'
Bob Ross’s place in American popular culture is remarkably unique. He slowly became a welcome presence on PBS, he became a figure of derision and mockery for a time, people taking easy shots at his earnest love of painting, his unique hairstyle, and so on, and then he came back around to becoming an icon. As the new documentary, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed, rightly points out, amid the pandemic, the calming presence of Bob Ross became a welcome and soothing balm, a pleasant safe space.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Colony' (2021) Starring Nora Arnezeder
My least favorite film sub-genre is dystopian fiction. Grimy, dirty people eating each other and talking solely about how awful all of humanity is just does nothing for me. Most dystopian fiction feels the same to me. I even had strong reservations about Mad Max Fury Road because, again, dirty people talking about how bad humanity is and blah, blah, blah. Now, I know that Mad Max Fury Road is the internet’s favorite movie, so, please, allow me to remind you that I do admire that movie, I just don’t love it with the kind of fury that you do. Sorry.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'We Need to Do Something'
As a storm overtakes a small suburban town, an internal storm rages inside the suburban home of a divided family of four in the horror thriller, We Need to Do Something. Directed by Sean King O’Grady, We Need to Do Something stars Pat Healy as Robert, the agitated father, Vinessa Shaw plays Diane, the secretive but loving mother to Melissa, played by Sierra McCormick, and Bobby, played by John James Cronin.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Behemoth'
The story behind the new movie Behemoth is more interesting than the story being told in the movie Behemoth. Director Peter Szewczyk is a famed effects artist and managed to make this effects heavy horror flick with a budget of only $65,000. That’s a remarkable achievement considering the cost of a movie in general can be twice that amount without relying on special effects spectacle.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
