Sean Patrick
Bio
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: 'Desolation Center' Doc Explores Guerilla Concerts of the 80s
Where did the idea of festivals mixing art and music come from? Some will credit Lollapalooza or Burning Man for creating this unique combination of art and music. But, the real origin of a truly punk festival of music and art may be Desolation Center. Director Stuart Swezey was the founder of Desolation Center in the 1970s and now, Swezey has taken the reigns to tell the story himself of the founding of a festival.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Artik' is Another Good Shocker from Dread Central
There is something both old school and incredibly modern about Artik, the latest low-budget horror surprise from the good folks at Dread Central. The film posits a serial killer with influences that reflect both comic books and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's a strange, off-kilter mix of influences anchored by lead performances that bring those influences to bear.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: Gentle, Sweet, Thoughtful—'The Last Black Man in San Francisco'
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a wonderfully quirky drama with fascinating characters and a story that meanders in a way that is incredibly charming in its own way. The story goes that Jimmie Fails, played by Jimmie Fails, is obsessed with his childhood home in a now gentrified part of San Francisco. Though Jimmie was only in the home when he was very young, he recalls vivid memories of living there and the comfort he found there.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: 'Hot Air' Steve Coogan Suffers in Adam Sandler Leftover
Hot Air is a lazy, pace-free, laugh free, comedy/drama that wastes the brilliant Steve Coogan in a role that he should have absolutely killed. I should not be surprised that a movie directed by Frank Coraci, Adam Sandler’s go to guy for dim-witted, unfunny tripe, would stink on ice and I am not surprised, not really. I am surprised however, that someone as ingenious and irrepressible as Steve Coogan would waste his time on something so toothless and creaky as Hot Air.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Wild Rose' Is a Messy, Wonderful, Brilliant Movie
Wild Rose is an absolute powerhouse, a brilliantly written and performed movie with a star-making lead performance by Jessie Buckley, and yet another Academy Award level supporting turn from the incredible Julie Walter, arguably, the single most generous actress on the planet. Walter could steal any scene she's in and instead she helps everyone else into the spotlight through her remarkable strength.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Spoiler Alert: We Need to Talk About the Unintentionally Hilarious Ending of 'Angel Has Fallen'
That Angel Has Fallen is one of the worst movies of 2019 should come as no surprise. Olympus Has Fallen is a legendary terrible movie in which Gerard Butler originated his meathead, franchise fronting, character, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning. That was followed up by London Has Fallen, another desperately moronic action flick in which Butler took the macho nonsense of Olympus has Fallen and brought it to the international stage.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Ready or Not' Is One of the Best Surprises of 2019
Ready or Not stars Samara Weaving as Grace, a soon to be married woman. Grace is marrying Alex (Mark O'Brien) and marrying into Alex's incredibly rich family, the Le Domas family. The Le Domas Family are an odd group of gin soaked alpha males and domineering women who do not welcome outsiders with ease.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review 'The Kitchen' Sinks
The Kitchen is a stultifying mess of a movie. This failure of tone and purpose features three exceptional actresses starring in the same movie, yet often appearing as if they are in different movies, acting with different purpose. The Kitchen stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss in a story of late 70s mobsters.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Hoax' Shows Dread Central as the Home of Modern Drive-In Horror
A group of attractive young people are getting horny and high in the woods, as one of them begins to tell a campfire story. As the group splits into couples to indulge in their attractive young people-ness, a rumble emerges from the forest. The rumble becomes a roar, and our pretty storyteller is dispatched.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Where'd You Go Bernadette'
Where'd You Go Bernadette? Antarctica. Bernadette went to Antarctica, it's literally in the trailer for the movie. I'm being obtuse and flippant, but Where'd You Go Bernadette inspires such flippancy. This paean to awful rich people without real problems flounders among a set of characters so unlikable or poorly realized that even the effervescent Cate Blanchett is taken down.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 30 Years of 'Uncle Buck'
When I was a kid, I thought Uncle Buck was a good movie. Now, it's the perfect illustration of how, though movies don't change, we do. 30 years later, as an adult with taste, and what I hope is a little sophistication, I can look back on Uncle Buck, and Roger Ebert's review of Uncle Buck, which I disliked at the time, and see that Roger was absolutely right, and I was as immature and childish as this movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks