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: '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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 years ago in Pride
Movie Review: 'Collection' Starring Alex Pettyfer
Collection stars Alex Pettyfer as a bill collector, one of those phone harassing types eager to take advantage of those who have fallen behind on bills. Pettyfer’s Brandon is ruthless and he’s successful by being ruthless and chasing down money by any means necessary. Brandon leads a team of collection agents headed up by his best friend and muscle man, Ross, played by Mike Vogel.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Cry Macho' Starring Clint Eastwood
Cry Macho’s best asset is that it isn't as completely unwatchable as some of Clint Eastwood’s most recent movies. The Mule was obnoxiously slow and dedicated to polishing Eastwood’s ego while his take on the true life drama of the Paris train incident, 15:17 to Paris, is a shockingly awful movie where Eastwood the director looked nearly as amateur as his cast of non-actors blandly re-enacting their much ballyhooed act of heroism. 15:17 to Paris is awe-inspiringly terrible, especially coming as it does from an Academy Award winning director.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Copshop' Starring Gerard Butler
Copshop is not a movie that I was looking forward to. I have a long standing one sided feud with actor Gerard Butler. He has no idea that I exist and I hate every movie that he makes more and more and more. So, I did not go into Copshop expecting much other than Butler’s usual brand of meathead, mindless, action nonsense. Butler’s brand is more bullets than brains and I can’t be mad at that, other actors are quite good at that brand of action. Butler’s version unfortunately tends toward the smarmy and obnoxious and that’s where I draw the line.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Spoiler Review: 'The Card Counter' Starring Oscar Isaac
The Card Counter is among the most frustrating movies I have ever seen. The film stars Oscar Isaac as a professional gambler with a talent for counting cards. It’s a talent that he developed while in prison. While biding his time until release, he taught himself how to count cards and he uses that talent at casinos across the country.He’s smart about this talent, he never goes for big money, and he knows exactly when to walk away from the table to collect his winnings.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Kate' Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kate stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the title character, Kate, an assassin for hire under the guidance of Varrick, played by Woody Harrelson. Kate’s newest assignment is to take out the brother of a major Japanese criminal syndicate, possibly the Yakuza though that’s not made entirely clear. The hit job is complicated when the target’s daughter, a teenager named Ani (Miku Martineau), arrives at the location of the hit with her father.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Death Drop Gorgeous'
Death Drop Gorgeous is a bizarre and often gross homage to the trash cinema of the legendary John Waters. The movie tells the story of a group of drag performers who become the target of a serial murderer in their community. A series of ever more grisly murders unfold and a pair of thoroughly nonplussed cops investigate the crime while also trying to keep the series of murders quiet so as not to upset the business interest of a local club owner who is missing three fingers.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Giddy Stratospheres' Starring Laura Jean Marsh
Giddy Stratospheres was written by, directed by and stars Laura Jean Marsh as Lara, a well known and well loved London party girl. Lara fancies herself a club promoter though evidence of her actual job is hard to come by. We meet Lara as she is awakening from a one night stand and heading to her favorite local pub for perhaps another one night stand as such trivialities are common to her life, as her best friend Daniel (Jamal Franklin) indicates.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Queenpin' Starring Kristen Bell
Queenpins stars Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as bored suburbanite besties who decide to turn their love of coupons into a side business. Of course, if that was all that they did, there would not be a movie made about them. Thus, as Connie and JoJo, Bell and Howell-Baptiste, launch a minor criminal enterprise in order to sell illegal coupons on the internet until they are tracked down by a loss prevention specialist and a Postal Inspector.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Lily Topples the World'
One of my favorite modern internet things is the evolution of the word wholesome. Wholesome has been adopted by online culture as a content category, a safe space for earnest, sweet, and gentle, feel good stories. Searching for content on Twitter you can find people praising wholesome content left and right, often animal videos or old people being cute or babies dancing. Wholesome content can even strive to be more than merely viral.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
