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: 'Here After'
Here After is a rather smug and self-satisfied movie that takes some time to settle into. The film stars Andy Karl as Michael, a man recently killed in a car accident. That’s a shame but it gets worse for poor Michael in the afterlife. In the universe of Here After, people can only ascend to heaven in pairs. Thus, if one does not have a soulmate, they will be doomed to walk the Earth until they find a soulmate. If they never find a soulmate, they simply fade out of existence.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Willy's Wonderland'
Willy’s Wonderland piles absurdity on top of absurdity and in wonderfully, violently, crazy fashion. That this is a movie starring Nicolas Cage is something that should not surprise anyone. That Cage doesn’t utter a single line of dialogue, outside of an occasional grunt to signify effort, is surprising. Cage’s manic energy is often best employed when he’s wailing like a banshee or saying something strangely or hauntingly poignant. Without words in Willy’s Wonderland the famed personality somehow still shines through and is somehow as entertaining as ever.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Space Jam A New Legacy'
Space Jam A New Legacy is a branding partnership between Lebron James and Warner Media. The goal of Space Jam A New Legacy is to further the branding of both Lebron James and the Warner Media intellectual property known to many as Looney Tunes. That this branding partnership comes in the form of narrative media, known colloquially as a ‘movie’ is really just a means of conveyance.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Space Jam'
Space Jam has become a part of popular culture nostalgia in recent years. I can’t call it a critical reappraisal as critics are more likely to walk intentionally into traffic than actually sit down to assess Space Jam in any critical fashion after 25 years of its release, but a reappraisal has occurred nevertheless. The generations that came after Generation X have come to embrace the cheesy nostalgia and soundtrack of Space Jam regardless of the actual quality of Space Jam.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Broken Diamonds'
Things in movies are more than just things. If a writer or director calls attention to a specific thing, that thing gains meaning from that attention beyond its mere function. In the case of the new mental health drama, Broken Diamonds starring Ben Platt and Lola Kirke, it’s a house that takes on a great deal more meaning than being merely a place where someone lives. The house in question belonged to the main characters’ father and the added layer of meaning deepens as the story unfolds.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'How it Ends'
How it Ends is like an indie pop song, it appeals to some very specific sensibilities and will not be for all audiences. This end of the world comedy finds a nonplussed millennial mildly struggling with her identity and past as she makes plans for the destruction of the planet at the end of this day. What stands out about Eliza (Zoe Lister-Jones), beyond her existential crisis, is that she’s followed everywhere she goes by a projection of her younger self, Young Eliza (Cailee Spenny).
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Tomorrow War'
The Tomorrow War stars Chris Pratt as a High School science teacher and military veteran who gets drafted into a very unique war. While watching the World Cup at a party, Chris and the rest of the world are shocked to find the famed tournament interrupted by the arrival of soldiers from the future. As these soldiers will eventually explain, they’ve developed time travel technology specifically so that they can go back in time to recruit soldiers to fight in a future war against alien beasties.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'Pig' Starring Nicolas Cage
Pig is a very simple movie about loving something more than you love yourself. While it can be hard to take Nicolas Cage seriously these days given his full transformation into a meme in human form Pig shows that there are still times when the actor emerges from the shadow of the icon. Pig is a great example of Nicolas Cage the actor emerging and showing the delicacy and talent that is so often forgotten behind the bugged intensity and meme-worthy posing.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Downeast'
Downeast is a rarity in this modern movie world. It’s a tiny, independent, gritty crime thriller that doesn’t feel as if it is recycling every crime movie cliche. Sure, the characters and the situation are familiar but the setting is new and the characters are authentic and charismatic. Written and directed by Joe Raffa, Downeast is a smart crime drama pitched at a perfect moderate pace that allows the characters to breathe and lets the story to settle into a lovely rise and fall.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 'Dachra' Tunisia's First Horror Movie
Dachra is said to be Tunisia’s first horror movie. If that’s indeed true then they’ve learned a lot from the horror traditions of America. The film is about three journalism students who are chasing an exclusive story in order to get a good grade in their class. They are tasked with doing an original, exclusive, investigative news story and one of the three happens to have an idea that involves a legendary mental patient and the strange village near where the patient was found having survived having her throat cut and other such horrors.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Bad Lieutenant'
Abel Ferrara is one of the most daring, fascinating, and unique voices in film. Though he’s made his fair share of duds in his nearly 50 years behind the camera, he’s also made some truly iconic movies. Ms. 45 was a recent revelation for me, a film about Me Too decades before Me Too became a movement demanding change in the way women are treated by men in our American society. Ms. 45 is, for me, a true classic but for most it is not a movie they’ve even heard of, let alone experienced.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Black Widow'
The legendary pop song American Pie has a small role to play in Black Widow. The song features early in the movie acting as comfort for a little girl who grows up to be Black Widow’s little sister Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh). It reprises later in the movie as a reminder of a more innocent time in Yelena’s life. It’s a bit on the nose but I appreciated it nonetheless, an all time great pop song about America’s loss of innocence reflecting the loss of innocence for one of Marvel’s great heroes.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
