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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Why Am I Drawn Toward Failure? David Bowie Leads to A Writer's Epiphany
This is my brain on David Bowie. Listening to Bowie I realized who I am as a writer and a person. I’ve been struggling lately with many different things, nothing beyond the average. except for my seeming colossal failure as a writer. I’m a failure as a writer, I can admit that. As of this writing, I have published nearly 800 pieces and I have barely a few nickels to rub together. I don’t know how to write for the algorithm and I don’t know that I would want to write for the algorithm. But that leaves me as a failed writer, in financial terms.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Journal
Movie Review: 'Take Me Somewhere Nice'
Take Me Somewhere Nice is a stylish bit of nothing in particular. Aimless and odd but not nearly quirky enough to justify the odd, the directorial debut of Croatian-Danish filmmaker Ena Sendijarevic is supposedly reminiscent of the work of Jim Jarmusch but with a European twist. I can see the the alleged influence, but never having been a huge fan of Jarmusch, I wasn’t particularly enamored with the comparison made by many of my fellow Western critics.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
TV Review: 'Loki' is the Best MCU Series So Far
Loki is the single best thing the MCU has given us since it came into existence. Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief has long been the secret weapon of the MCU and now, standing out front, he’s fully the brand’s biggest breakout star. Loki is a wildly clever, intricately plotted, gorgeously imagined series that boasts one of the most talented supporting casts in the MCU and the best single premise of any modern Marvel franchise.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'In the Heights' Plays it Safe
I don’t know what I am missing here? I can’t quite put my finger on what other critics see in In the Heights that I don’t. I love Hamilton and I find the style of Hamilton to be impeccable. Hearing that same style used in In the Heights, I find it derivative and a great deal less interesting. The characters are likable enough and the message of love and community has warmth and good nature but the lasting impact, for me, is a gentle and pleasant musical that plays it safe at every turn.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Holler' is Authentic Rust Belt Drama
Thank you Nicole Riegel! Nicole Riegel is the director of the new drama, Holler and for once, a movie set in the rust belt isn’t defined by terrible clothes and bad wigs. Riegel, a native of a small town in Southern Ohio, has made a movie in Holler that brushes aside Hollywood stereotypes about midwestern hicks and Appalachian residents and found an authentic way to tell a story about being below the poverty line, one that doesn’t waste millions of dollars on terrible wigs and bad teeth.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Horror Movie Review: 'House' 1977
House or Hausu has its origins in a strange place. According to legend, the film was dreamed up after executives at Toho, the company famed for creating Godzilla, had seen Jaws become a worldwide phenomenon and they wanted their own horror phenomenon. The executives tapped well known commercial director Nobuhiko Obayashi to develop the concept and after failing to find anyone inside the company to direct House, and after Obayashi used his commercial instincts to create a small cult around the movie before it had been made, Toho allowed Obayashi to bring his bizarre vision to life.
By Sean PatrickExclusive • 5 years ago
Movie Review: 'The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It' A Demon Possessed Waterbed???
A demon possessed a waterbed! That’s what we’re going with for the latest in The Conjuring franchise? The whole movie hinges on a demon possessed waterbed? I certainly didn’t have The Conjuring franchise paying homage to director George Berry’s legendary 1977 horror camp classic, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats on my 2021 bingo card, but here we are. A boy splashes down on a demonic waterbed and a drunken landlord that the kid has never met ends up dead. Sure, why not.
By Sean PatrickExclusive • 5 years ago
Documentary Review: 'Super Frenchie' Inside the Life of an Extreme Sports Superstar
Super Frenchie is a terrific documentary about a fascinating man. Super Frenchie is the nickname given to Matthias Giraud, a base jumper and extreme skiing fanatic with a deep and abiding addiction to adrenaline. Matthias is one of the most famous base jumpers in the world and, as demonstrated in Super Frenchie, one of the most humble and charming. Giraud takes a sport that appears utterly terrifying and unnecessary and gives it a context and appeal that even someone as desperately afraid of heights as this critic can appreciate.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Interview: Director Darren Lynn Bousman on the Future of 'Spiral' and 'Saw'
Director Darren Lynn Bousman stepped away from the Saw franchise more than a decade ago and assumed he was done working inside the world created for Jigsaw, aka John Kramer. Then, Chris Rock called and suddenly a whole new take on the franchise opened up before Bousman's eyes. Now, the director of three Saw movies, Saw 2, Saw 3 and Saw 4, and what he hopes will be the first of the Spiral movies, has his eyes on the future of the Saw cinematic universe.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Spirit Untamed' Will Entertain the Kids
Your kids, especially young girls, will love Spirit Untamed. This story of a spirited horse and the spirited young girl who befriends him is pure kiddie fare. This is the definition of a babysitter movie, the kind of safe, inoffensive, and wholly unmemorable movie that is perfect for putting on the TV while you go and do chores in another room. There is nothing wrong with Spirit Untamed as an at home presentation for children, though parents might not want to spend the money to see it in a theater.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Deadly Illusions' is a High Camp Thriller
If Cinemax made a lifetime movie, that movie would be Deadly Illusions, a trashy soap opera with just enough trash to reach an R-Rating. Deadly Illusions stars Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis as Mary Morrison, a bestselling author with a seemingly perfect life. She has wealth, a doting husband, Tom (Dermot Mulroney at his most bland), and two adorable moppets who don’t have much to do with this movie other than being plot devices.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Amusement Park' Lost George Romero Movie Found and Restored
I was perhaps a little too excited when I got word that a new George A. Romero movie from the early 1970s had been uncovered and fully restored. I, like so many others, am a huge fan of Romero from all of the Living Dead movies. He’s a storied figure in the history of horror and the notion that a piece of his work had been found and was fully restored, it captured my imagination and made me think that I was about to have a profound experience.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
