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: 'Tolkien' Is a Surprising Delight
I am the last person I expected to be a huge of a biopic of The Hobbit creator J.R.R Tolkien, but here we are. As the mystical magic of the movies settled over me in a theater in Davenport, Iowa, I found myself almost instantly won over by the story of a supremely intelligent young orphan, haunted by the unexpected early death of his incredibly creative mother, Tolkien, the movie, crafts a vision of a man one might expect to create entire worlds from his remarkable imagination.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Looking Back at 'Bedtime Story' The Inspiration for Anne and Rebel in 'The Hustle'
Bedtime Story is a relatively forgotten part of Marlon Brando’s filmography. It’s certainly a departure from the Brando of lore, the temperamental method actor, desperately serious about his craft in his early years, and debauched, and disengaged in his later years. Bedtime Story is Marlon Brando with a light comic touch, and it suits him nearly as well as his leather jackets of the 50s, and his Godfather personae of the 70s.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
The 2000s Movie Project: 'Pitch Black'
The latest entry in the 2000s Movie Project is Pitch Black starring Vin Diesel and Radha Mitchell. This movie gave Diesel the cult movie cred to match the blockbuster cred he earned from Fast and the Furious.Pitch Black is hardcore, dystopian sci-fi with blood, guts, and a body count. Directed by David Twohy, Pitch Black has a very standard, and perfunctory feel in every way except for its star Vin Diesel who gives the film an edge with his tough guy cheeseball persona.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
The 2000s Movie Project: 'Scream 3'
The third entry in The 2000s Movie Project was the first blockbuster of this young century Scream 3. I won't lie to you, when it was released on February 11, 2000, I was a Scream 3 apologist. I defended the movie even as the critical consensus was dire. Naturally, I never revisited the movie again so as to preserve my opinion. Watching it again, from a more mature perspective, it's not that I was wrong, it's that I did not yet know how to determine how wrong I was.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
The 2000s Movie Project Review: 'Supernova'
I am beginning a new project that involves looking back at the moves of this relatively young century. The 2000 Movie Project is part of a book I hope to write in the future looking close at the way movies reflect the time in which we now exist and the way culture shapes the world and the world shapes the culture. It’s going to be an eclectic compilation for sure, especially judging by my first entry, Walter Hill’s massive sci-fl flop Supernova.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
The 2000s Movie Project: 'Down to You'
In this second entry in my new series, The 2000s Movie Project, I am taking a look back at an actor whose work I have loathed and reviled for most of 20 years. In the late 90s, Freddie Prinze Jr. was my nemesis in a fashion that rivaled my similar disdain for the work of Adam Sandler and Eli Roth. In hindsight, I can see now that this hatred may not have been entirely warranted. Don’t misunderstand, movies such as She’s All That and the Scooby Doo movies are still garbage, but they are not on the same remote scale as Sandler’s cash-ins or Eli Roth’s genuine villainy.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Candidate' Is Criminally Empty Political Theater
With the release of the Seth Rogen-Charlize Theron political romantic comedy, Long Shot, the Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast chose to look back at a relic of political comedy past, Robert Redford's The Candidate. In doing so, I did not expect to find that Long Shot, an ostensible stoner romantic comedy would demonstrate sharper political barbs than the 1972 film that is remembered mostly for sharp elbowed politics. That perception some have put forward over the years anyway.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in The Swamp
Movie Review: Looking Back at 'The Fast and the Furious' Ahead of 'Hobbs and Shaw'
Hobbs and Shaw hits theaters this summer in the very first spinoff of The Fast and the Furious franchise. With that in mind, I am taking a look back at the franchise and each of its evolutionary stages. We begin in 2001 with the very first film in this ever so unusual blockbuster franchise, 2001s The Fast and the Furious.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Original 'I Spit on Your Grave' Is Still Terrible
In the early 2000s, it became briefly hip amongst film cultists to defend Meir Zarchi's 1978 exploitation flick, I Spit on Your Grave. Cult film critic, Joe Bob Briggs, is on the record calling the film a "masterpiece of cinema.” So many stepped forward to defend the film, that it earned a special edition dvd release from Elite Entertainment to celebrate the film’s 25 year anniversary back in 2003. The dvd came complete with THX sound, tv spots, critic reviews, and two commentary tracks—one by the film’s director Meir Zarchi and the other by the aforementioned Joe Bob Briggs.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Timecode'
I began writing about movies in the year 2000. For reasons that I cannot begin to fathom, the first movie I ever wrote about—for a long since discarded and forgotten blog—was Mike Figgis's bizarre, experimental failure, Timecode. Released in August of 2000, Timecode stars an ensemble cast that included Danny Huston, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, and Saffron Burrows in disparate stories told via what looks like several different security cameras.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Painfully Earnest 'After' Is Hard to Watch
After is a painfully earnest romantic teen drama starring a pair of starry eyed millennials, one a naive bumpkin at a big city college for the first time and the other a mopey, emo bad boy. If you’re wondering if this story has been recycled from a piece of fan fiction you’re really on to something. After is actually based on a recycled bit of One Direction fan fiction that was picked up and turned into a novel.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Favorite Film From Every Year You Were Born Meme Fires Up Love of Movies
There is a new meme that is delighting movie lovers everywhere and inspiring a loving and nostalgic look back at a life at the movies. What is your favorite movie from every year of your life? From the year you were born through the last complete year of your life. For me, that is 42 years of movies to choose from.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks