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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Classic Movie Review: 'Klute' Starring Jane Fonda
Klute is the classic on the latest edition of the Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast. The film was chosen because the new movie Reminiscence appears to be about a private detective and Klute centers on an investigation by a would-be private eye played by Donald Sutherland. More than any of that however, I’ve always wanted an excuse to watch Klute and this was a flimsy enough excuse to do so. I was rewarded for my effort as Klute was a truly rewarding experience.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Annette' Starring Adam Driver
Annette is a masterwork. Director Leos Carax takes the audience into his hands and takes us on a fantastical journey, a strange and magnificent journey of sight and sound. The beauty of music and the beast of hubristic ego slammed together in a story of movies, music, romance, sex, and all that such things entail. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, with music from the duo known as Sparks, Annette is a towering, forceful hurricane of image and emotion.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Habit' Starring Bella Thorne
Habit stars Bella Thorne as a party-girl turned drug dealer after she’s fired from yet another in a series of low paying gigs. With her friends, Addy (Andrea Pejic) and Evie (Libby Mintz), Bella will be selling drugs, supplied to them by a former TV star, Eric (Gavin Rossdale), at a nightclub. Unfortunately, all three friends end up partying a little too much and after taking the party back to their apartment, they wake up to find $8,000 in cash and drugs stolen.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Demonic' starring Carly Pope
Demonic stars Carly Pope as Carly, a woman hiding from her past. 20 years before the start of our story, Carly’s mother became one of the most infamous killers in American history. Angela (Nathalie Boltt) was arrested after she’d set fire to a nursing home, a fire that killed 21 people. She would kill 26 people in all before being captured by Police. Carly has been haunted by her mother’s crimes for years, even after cutting off contact from her mother and changing her name.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Old Man and the Gun' Starring Robert Redford
Robert Redford announced his retirement from acting in 2019. That means that his final performance is his role in the David Lowery helmed Old Man & the Gun. If that is indeed the case, that Mr. Redford is truly retired, he goes out on a pretty great note, playing a character that suits him. The consummate charmer, Redford plays bank robber Forrest Tucker with the kind of half-smile and glint in his eye which marked his all time greatest performances.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: Ugly and Insipid 'Don't Breathe 2' Didn't Need to Exist
Don’t Breathe 2 begins from the flawed premise that the serial murderer and rapist at the center of the first film can somehow be rehabbed into an anti-hero. Stephen Lang’s ‘The Blind Man’ murdered teenagers who simply wandered into the wrong house looking to steal something, yes, and then they stumbled into his rape room. To say as a filmmaker that you want to further explore this character but from the perspective of a hero is strange to say the least and misguided at best.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Ted Bundy American Boogeyman'
In my nearly 20 years of writing about the movies I have seen some disreputable filmmakers and Daniel Farrands, the director of such non-classics as The Haunting of Sharon Tate and The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, is among the most disreputable of them all. Targeting some of the most well known true crime stories in American history, Farrands doesn’t seek to shine a light on the gravest of evil, he seeks to exploit it as if it were just another horror story.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Criminal
Strict Adherence to Screenplay Mechanics Stifles Aretha's Life Story in 'Respect'
It's strange to say this when we are talking about a movie about a real life individual but, since I know some people are sensitive to this, SPOILERS for the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect will be part of this article. In this exercise we are going to break down the entirety of the new Aretha Franklin biopic Respect using screenwriting guru Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet. The late Mr. Snyder was a screenwriter by trade and a teacher of screenwriting as well. His book Save the Cat is a terrific resource for screenwriters who are learning the craft for the first time.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Free Guy'
When I think of Free Guy I think of a vapid, mindless, forgettable experience. Much like Jungle Cruise and The Suicide Squad before it, the empty headed spectacle was there and I didn’t dislike it but I also didn’t enjoy it. That’s surprising for me because I have always enjoyed Ryan Reynolds. I enjoy Reynolds’ quick wit and goofball physicality and both of those wonderful comic traits are in play in Free Guy. And still, I just don’t care.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Series Review: 'Marvel's What if?'
Disney’s What If is the latest extension of the Marvel Brand on the Disney Plus streaming platform. Created by A.C Bradley and directed by Brian Andrews, the series is a re-imagining of the Marvel Universe. Taking the origins of classic Marvel heroes and giving them a new spin, What If manages to refresh these characters and these stories. Thus even a story such as the origin of Captain America, one very familiar from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels new again in an alternate universe where Steve Rogers never becomes Captain America.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Visual Filmmaking in 'Materna'
Visual film-making is tricky, it’s very easy to move an audience to the wrong conclusion by giving bad visual information. In this article I am going to explore the troubled visual film-making in the movie Materna from director David Gutnik and how the visual choices in play in the film’s opening story lead to puzzling conclusions that affect the rest of the film. The choices made during a sequence starring the brilliant Kate Lyn Sheil aren’t bad but as they exist in the story, and are stitched together in editing, they can lead to a conclusion that doesn’t fit with the rest of the movie.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Materna'
Materna has the look and feel of a very good movie. The images at play and elements of the stories being told are really strong and in my very soul I wish I could recommend Materna but sadly I can’t. The bad in this case outweighs the good in Materna far too often from the strange choice of including a sci-fi tinged story in a movie that contains no other element of the supernatural, to letting segments linger for too long, minor issues keep creeping up until you realize that the whole of Materna never congeals into a singular, united story.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks