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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My Favorite Movies from the 52nd Annual Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival was held from September 30th to October 6th of 2021 and I was lucky enough to attend the festival, virtually. I would have loved to be there in person but my capacity as a full time radio host and my duties with the Critics Choice Documentary Awards and my gig reviewing general release movies, meant that there was no getting away from home and only the chance to see several select movies from the Nashville Film Festival. For this article I settled on three movies that I loved the most from my time virtually attending the Nashville Film Festival.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Venom Let There Be Carnage' Starring Tom Hardy
Venom Let There Be Carnage is a very quirky comic book action movie. Directed by Andy Serkis, the man who gave physical life to Gollum in Lord of the Rings, Venom Let There Be Carnage appears far more interested in the relationship between between Venom, the alien symbiote being that eats human heads, and Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), the reporter turned body host for Venom. But the question is: What does Andy Serkis have to say about the relationship between Venom and Eddie Brock?
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Guilty' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal
The Guilty is an American remake of a 2018 Danish thriller that was based very loosely on real events. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the American version of The Guilty is one of the fastest paced and most exciting movies of 2021. This can be attributed to Fuqua, a talented action director whose style translates shockingly well to a drama about one man and a phone bank. Of course, The Guilty would not work as well as it does without star Jake Gyllenhaal, an actor with more than enough presence and charisma to carry a movie all by himself.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Many Saints of Newark'
The Many Saints of Newark stars Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisant, a gangster in Newark, New Jersey circa the late 1960s, running numbers and stealing trucks to resell the goods inside. Typical gangster stuff. Dickie is a high ranking member of the Soprano Crime Family, headed up by Johnny Boy Soprano (Jon Bernthal) and his little brother Junior (Corey Stoll). Dickie has his own crew of Italian stereotypes who follow his orders.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Five Movies to Watch for at the 52nd Annual Nashville Film Festival
The 52nd Annual Nashville Film Festival began on September 30th and runs through October 6th, 2021. Several feature films will be part of the presentation at the Nashville Film Festival and below are 5 of the movies to keep an eye at the festival and to look forward to after the festival as they move out toward wider audiences. I have the distinct privilege of being able to virtually attend the Festival and here’s what I am looking forward to…
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'American Night' Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I would tell you that I hate the new movie American Night starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jeremy Piven but, I’m not sure what it is that I hate? Truly, is this a movie? It's more like pure chaos in the shape of a movie. Between the sub-Tarantino attempt at mixing up chapters or character perspectives, the baffling attempts at what I think is humor, or the pointless, meaningless, character death and violence, there are so many things to hate about American Night that I am almost too tired to care enough to hate American Night.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Implanted'
Implanted stars Michelle Girolami as Sarah, a struggling young woman, recently let go from her job. Needing money to find a place to live, Sarah decides to join a medical study that promises a $20,000 payment. By joining this strange experiment, Sarah agrees to have a device implanted into her back that will speak to her as if she had Siri in her brain that only she can hear. The goal of the implanted device is to help with mental health and self improvement by having the chip monitor health and mental conditions and tell the user if anything is wrong.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'The Jesus Music'
The Jesus Music is an entirely unnecessary documentary on the history of Christian Music. It features a series of well known artists delivering talking head monologues about their career with very dry anecdotes of little interest outside of the niche of people who follow Contemporary Christian Music and likely already know these stories. Directed by John and Andy Erwin, The Jesus Music does little to justify its own existence.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Old Henry' Starring Tim Blake Nelson
Old Henry is an old school western, gritty and violent filled with dirty, stinking wretches out for blood and money. Henry himself, played by Tim Blake Nelson, is dirty and stinky but he is, at the very least, trying to be peaceful. Henry moved to the middle of nowhere years ago to escape a past of grave violence and death. You will learn a little about Henry’s past as Old Henry unfolds but the story is almost entirely in Henry’s present where a stray horse leads Henry to a wounded man and a satchel full of ill-gotten gains.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Heval' A Hollywood Actor Makes Friends in Syria
Heval, in Kurdish, means friend or comrade. Actor turned Freedom Fighter, Michael Enright received many questions and concerns after he claimed to be a Heval of the Syrian refugee movement. The former deep bench supporting player in the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Enright joined the U.S backed Kurdish Militia to fight ISIS in 2015. The new Curiosity Stream original documentary, Heval, examines the mystery surrounding the actor turned unlikely soldier, the doubts surrounding his account and the evidence that may show he’s sincere.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Serve
Movie Review: 'The Survivalist' Starring John Malkovich
The Survivalist is a new pandemic thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the owner of a large piece of land in Pennsylvania living peacefully away from the regular world where COVID-19 has mutated and caused mass death. Meyers’ Ben is a former FBI Agent with a stockpile of weapons and food who smartly began to prepare for this situation just as things started to get very, very bad.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Coming Home in the Dark'
Coming Home in the Dark is a grim and fearsome revenge movie. The story of a family that takes a day trip to a New Zealand mountain range only to be assaulted and kidnapped by thieves with a secret agenda, Coming Home in the Dark quickly becomes shocking and never really lets up from there. Directed by newcomer James Ashcroft, Coming Home in the Dark is about the past, the present and the complicity of inaction.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Horror