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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Five Takeaways from the First Trailer for 'Jumanji: The Next Level'
Jumanji is back and headed to The Next Level this December. Yes. the rather shortly awaited sequel to the 2017 blockbuster reboot, Jumanji: The Next Level, will be ready for theaters by the end of this year, and the marketing push for the movie begins now with the very first trailer setting up how our heroes wind up back in the game and where the new adventure is set to take them and us.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
- Top Story - June 2019
Why I Don't Hate "Old Town Road"Top Story - June 2019
I'm 43 years old, and I don't hate "Old Town Road." Repeatedly, I have been told by people my age, and just a little younger, that I am supposed to hate "Old Town Road." Why? Some cite how it combines genres that they assume don't belong together, country and hip hop, or because the song is overly repetitive and meaningless. Some cite the fact that the song features the oft-derided, and rightfully demeaned, Billy Ray Cyrus as a reason the song should be dismissed out of hand.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
TV Movie Review: 'The Bobby DeBarge Story' Is Earnest, Sad, Camp
Criticizing TV One's The Bobby DeBarge Story is like having to discipline a puppy that has urinated on the floor, you don't want to be mean, but you have to let the puppy know not to do that again. As with a puppy, I will attempt to be gentle, but this is a huge puddle on the floor. This earnest, high camp, biopic mixes emotional honesty with some of the cringiest costumes and performances of 2019.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Classic Movie Review: 'Batman 89'
I was 13 years old in 1989, the perfect age to have my mind blown by a Batman movie. I was rather obsessed with the 1966 television series, which I watched everyday in reruns on one of my local television channels. I didn't have many Batman related toys, and I wasn't a comic book collector, but that didn't prevent me from being as wrapped up in the marketing hype as any other teenager at the time.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Euphoria' Is a Moving Exploration of Death
Euphoria is an elegant and elegiac exploration of life and death. Eva Green stars as a dying woman who uses her death to try and reconnect with her sister, played by Alicia Vikander. How Green's Emilie is able to use her slow death to reconnect with her sister is a strange and fascinating story as told by writer-director Lisa Langseth.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Shaft' 1971
1971's Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks, set a standard for cool. Richard Roundtree's black private dick was a sex machine to all the chicks, and while such a description is hilarious, he backs it up onscreen. The Theme From 'Shaft' by Isaac Hayes became iconic for its descriptions of Detective John Shaft, and eventually eclipsed the movie Shaft in the cultural pantheon.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Dead Don't Die' Fumbles as Zombie Satire
The classic Simpsons headline gag turned meme “Old Man Yells at Cloud” comes to mind rather often for me. I used to admonish myself and call out others who fruitlessly rage in no particular direction, hitting no targets and just generally being misguided. "Old man yells at cloud" is a solid description for writer-director Jim Jarmusch and his new movie The Dead Don’t Die. As written by Jarmusch, The Dead Don’t Die rages satirically against millennial's and consumer culture and iPhones, with no particular direction to the rage.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
The 2000's Movie Project: 'Wonder Boys'
Wonder Boys is the kind of movie that pops up in my mind every now and again, and just hangs out for a while. Something about this oddball little world created by Curtis Hanson just sticks to my ribs. Perhaps it is the lament of the blocked writer that gets me, or it could be that wonderfully cockeyed happy ending. It could be any number of wonderful little details all packed into a charming, ramshackle package held together by the lovely twang of a Bob Dylan inspired soundtrack.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier'
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier begins on a laughable, risible, note. After a prologue that vaguely introduces the film's villain, Laurence Luckinbill, we open on a mountain in California where a man is free climbing El Capitan. This handsome, in-shape, young man is nearly half way up the mountain when, in a scene of stunning incompetence, bad special effects, and remarkable arrogance, the strapping young climber is revealed to be the then nearly 60 year old, paunchy, William Shatner.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'Ma' Is a Jumbled Mess
In a perfect world an actress with the talent and charisma of Octavia Spencer would get any role that suits her, leading or otherwise. But it has been her experience, and indeed, the experience of many actresses, that talent often doesn't mean as much to Hollywood producers, as having an actress who is an example of mainstream notions of attractiveness.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
'Ad Astra' Five Takeaways from the First Trailer for New Brad Pitt Movie
After moving to Netflix for his most recent movie, War Machine, Brad Pitt has two blockbuster movies on tap for 2019. The first up will be, arguably, the most talked about movie of 2019, Quentin Tarentino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which stars Pitt alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in a story that trails along the Hollywood of the late 1960s and the Manson Family murders.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Futurism
30 Years of Nicolas Cage Memes in 'Vampire's Kiss'
30 years later and Vampire’s Kiss starring Nicolas Cage is as crazy and misunderstood as ever. Though it has lived on through endless memes, Vampire’s Kiss is far more than just a bonkers Nicolas Cage, rage-a-thon. In fact, Vampire’s Kiss may be one of the sneakiest works of genius in the last 30 years. Combining elements of Bram Stoker and The Twilight Zone with a hint of Hammer Films, Vampire’s Kiss combines these unique influences in a riveting, often hilarious, and never boring package.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks