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: 'Kate' Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kate stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the title character, Kate, an assassin for hire under the guidance of Varrick, played by Woody Harrelson. Kate’s newest assignment is to take out the brother of a major Japanese criminal syndicate, possibly the Yakuza though that’s not made entirely clear. The hit job is complicated when the target’s daughter, a teenager named Ani (Miku Martineau), arrives at the location of the hit with her father.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Death Drop Gorgeous'
Death Drop Gorgeous is a bizarre and often gross homage to the trash cinema of the legendary John Waters. The movie tells the story of a group of drag performers who become the target of a serial murderer in their community. A series of ever more grisly murders unfold and a pair of thoroughly nonplussed cops investigate the crime while also trying to keep the series of murders quiet so as not to upset the business interest of a local club owner who is missing three fingers.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Giddy Stratospheres' Starring Laura Jean Marsh
Giddy Stratospheres was written by, directed by and stars Laura Jean Marsh as Lara, a well known and well loved London party girl. Lara fancies herself a club promoter though evidence of her actual job is hard to come by. We meet Lara as she is awakening from a one night stand and heading to her favorite local pub for perhaps another one night stand as such trivialities are common to her life, as her best friend Daniel (Jamal Franklin) indicates.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Queenpin' Starring Kristen Bell
Queenpins stars Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as bored suburbanite besties who decide to turn their love of coupons into a side business. Of course, if that was all that they did, there would not be a movie made about them. Thus, as Connie and JoJo, Bell and Howell-Baptiste, launch a minor criminal enterprise in order to sell illegal coupons on the internet until they are tracked down by a loss prevention specialist and a Postal Inspector.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Lily Topples the World'
One of my favorite modern internet things is the evolution of the word wholesome. Wholesome has been adopted by online culture as a content category, a safe space for earnest, sweet, and gentle, feel good stories. Searching for content on Twitter you can find people praising wholesome content left and right, often animal videos or old people being cute or babies dancing. Wholesome content can even strive to be more than merely viral.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Malignant' from Director James Wan
Malignant stars Annabelle Wallis as Madison, a woman in an abusive relationship. When Madison returns home from work she gets into an argument with her husband, Derek (Jake Abel). He shoves Madison’s head into the wall hard enough to break the wall and cut Madison’s head open. He leaves, she locks him out of the bedroom and worries how his abuse might have affected her unborn child.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Dogs' From Director Bogdan Mirica
Dogs found fame at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival but is only finding an American release now via Dekanalog. This crime thriller about an outsider who comes to a small village following the death of his Uncle only to find trouble with his Uncle’s former gang of violent criminals is a stark and striking first feature from director Bogdan Mirca. Dogs is unrelentingly sparse and dry but the visceral impact of the action is as great as any big budget American thriller
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'The Capote Tapes'
When it comes to Truman Capote it’s fair to wonder if there is anything new to learn about the man. Capote’s life and work have been explored in books, television series, documentaries and even a pair of biographical films released within a year of each other, Capote starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 2005 and Infamous starring Toby Jones, released in 2006. More recently a stage play and documentary was made regarding Capote’s friendship with Tennessee Williams, a fellow tempestuous writer with a lengthy and well documented history.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Ema' From Director Pablo Larrain
Director Pablo Lorrain is stepping onto the world stage this awards season thanks to his biopic on Princess Diana titled, Spencer. And while star Kristen Stewart is getting most of the publicity for her reportedly uncanny performance as Princess Di, Pablo Larrain has me excited about his career and where he’s headed. Not just because I have heard great things about Spencer but rather because I have seen and been blown away by Lorrain’s remarkable 2019 feature, Ema, a shocking, provocative and exhilarating film.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Language Lessons' Starring Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales
When I was 30 years old, my grandmother died. On the last day of her life, I was there with her. It was just her and I and she was in and out of consciousness. She became very ill and I panicked. I had no idea what to do so I called a competent person, my sister in-law Jennifer. She’s incredible, she was so kind to me, especially that day. I had to wait there for her to arrive and I did what I could to be comforting to my grandmother.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It'
If you don’t fall in love with legendary actress Rita Moreno before the end of the documentary, Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided to Go For It, I will never understand you. In this remarkable biographical documentary, Rita Moreno relives her career highlights and downfalls and reveals herself to be one of the most inspiring and resilient performers in Hollywood history. Hollywood did Rita Moreno dirty for decades before she finally won in the end and Just A Girl Who Decided to Go For It covers it all.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'The Meaning of Hitler'
In less than a decade firsthand accounts of the holocaust, the most horrific and terrifying crime in human history, will be gone. Those who were there when Hitler murdered six million Jewish people now on average are in their 80s and 90s. They are sadly not long for this world and the history they take with them in their passing is some of the most important historical events in our collective history.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks