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: 'Anne at 13,000 Feet' Starring Deragh Campbell
Anne at 13,000 Feet stars Deragh Campbell as Anne, a spirited and troubled young woman whose life appears forever altered after a skydiving trip for a friend's bachelorette party. During the jump Anne is serene and peaceful, back on the ground, returning to work, being around her family and starting a new relationship, Anne is volatile, unpredictable, and flighty. Anne enjoys making other adults uncomfortable for sport.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Afterlife of the Party' Starring Victoria Justice
When he’s trying, director Stephen Herek is not a bad director. However, when he clearly doesn’t care, he makes dreadful movies such as Man of the House starring Tommy Lee Jones or The Chaperone starring professional wrestler Paul ‘Triple H’ Leveque. Afterlife of the Party falls somewhere between Herek’s best work, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and his more mercenary yet watchable work such as Rock Star or Mr Holland’s Opus.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Powder Keg' Starring Nicolaj Coster-Waldau
Powder Keg stars Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Koster Waldau as Rico, a member of the SWAT team in Denmark’s capital city. Rico is getting older and has accumulated injuries and surgeries that have him under the microscope at work. He’s being pushed to retire or accept a desk job, neither of which he’s entirely willing to do. Instead, despite the immense pain he’s in, he still outworks everyone in the gym to try and prove he can still work.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Hosting a Dance Party After September 11th, 2001
My experience of September 11th, 2001, was bizarre. My girlfriend at the time was in the middle of nowhere, on a ship and completely cut off from the world. I was working a morning shift at a video store doing inventory when we heard the news and everyone dropped what they were doing to watch a terrible looking feed of the local NBC affiliate. When the second plane hit and it became apparent that this was not an accident, the boss sent us home for the day to be with our families.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Journal
Coming to Netflix in September
Netflix promised that 2021 would be a year of original movies and shows EVERY week and their living up to that promise and more. In the month of September alone Netflix will debut 11 new feature length movies featuring well known stars and every genre imaginable. Here's a look at what the streaming giant has in store for the month of September...
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
