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: 'Queen Marie of Romania'
Queen Marie of Romania is part soap opera and part solid CBS television drama. This historical drama attempts to reclaim the legacy of the Romanian Queen, Queen Marie, a woman born of English Royalty, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who went on to have her legacy destroyed by her own son, Prince Carol II. Queen Marie of Romania is a handsome but insubstantial film with a weak screenplay bolstered somewhat by a compelling lead performance by Roxana Lupu.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Paper Spiders' is a Deeply Empathetic Look at Mental Illness
Paper Spiders is an emotional rollercoaster regarding the ups and downs in a strained relationship between a teenage daughter and a mother suffering from mental illness. The film stars Lili Taylor in the role of the mother and newcomer Stefania LaVie Owen as her college bound daughter. Facing life alone in a big empty, her husband having passed away not long ago, the mother begins to exhibit strange behavior that spirals out of control.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: '15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot (Number 1 Will Blow Your Mind)'
15 Things You Didn’t Know about Bigfoot is a very modern piece of satire. Directed by Zach Lamplugh (Editor, known for Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell), 15 Things tells the story of a millennial journalist working for a website that is part Buzzfeed and part Vice. Poor Brian Emond (played by actor Brian Emond) just wants to do real journalism. Unfortunately, his current niche for the web based media company Compound is more along the lines of clickbait.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
TCM Film Festival: 'Tex Avery at MGM'
The Turner Classic Film Festival, May 6th through the 9th on TCM and HBO Max, is treading into the minefield that is the legacy of one Tex Avery during the 2021 TCM Film Festival. One of the centerpieces of TCM’s Saturday morning is the documentary Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons, a 1988 52 minute documentary that has rarely been seen as it has mostly been out of circulation in the last few years. It’s on YouTube but if you’re in America, and you don’t have one of those VPN disguises, you aren’t able to watch it. Thus the show, Saturday morning at 6 Am Eastern time on TCM is a rare opportunity to see the documentary.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Stealing Chaplin'
Stealing Chaplin is a charmless black comedy that intends to adopt the cache of Charlie Chaplin, by employing an impersonator as the film’s narrator, but comes up short at every turn. Stealing Chaplin stars Simon Phillips as Cal and Doug Phillips as Cal’s hapless brother Terry. Together they are low level con artists who are somehow $30,000 in debt to the Las Vegas mob or it’s various offshoots.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Things Heard & Seen'
I have a reputation, via the Everyone’s A Critic Movie Review Podcast, for being hard on haunted house movies. Indeed, I’ve trashed most of them. Whether it’s The Conjuring franchise and its associated films or just the random September/October studio detritus, made to capitalize on the ravenous horror fandom, I’ve not been impressed with Hollywood’s ghost stories. It’s not a particular bias ghosts ghosts. Rather, it’s an issue with overused tropes, vague motivations, and screenwriting shortcuts that have put me off of Hollywood’s over-familiar ghost formula.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Horror
- Top Story - April 2021
Best Picture Winner 'The Artist' 10 Years Later Top Story - April 2021
In the 10 years since the release of The Artist and it's eventual Best Picture win at the Academy Awards in 2012, the film's lasting legacy is that a lot of people really liked the dog in the movie. Beyond that, it’s the hatred many hold for this admittedly lovely movie because it should not have won Best Picture. Now, most people likely could not name one of the several nominated movies that lost out and were more deserving than The Artist but I am not here to call anyone out or say that anyone is wrong for thinking The Artist as less than Best Picture caliber.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Here are the Young Men' Takes Advantage of Anya Taylor-Joy
Here are the Young Men is a young adult novel that must have been an absolute beast trying to adapt into a screenplay. Though the film has traditional characters and a gritty coming of age story, the book employs fanciful, dreamlike elements to communicate the mental state of the 4 male protagonists and one female character in their sphere. The film drops one of the male characters and tries to keep the fantasy and dream-like elements and comes off as chaotic and hard to follow.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
What's Next for the 2021 Academy Award Winners?
The 93rd Academy Awards are in the rearview mirror. It was a wonky ceremony to say the least. The new, more intimate setting, the strangely muted and lengthy introductions of the nominees, and the social distancing around the world, made for a strange ceremony to say the least. Then, Best Picture was announced before Best Actress and Best Actor and it tossed the whole ceremony into chaos that kept going as the ending approached and an upset occurred in the Best Actor category that left the whole ceremony feeling abrupt, rushed and unsatisfying.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Mitchell's vs the Machines' is Sony Animated Features at it's Best
The Mitchell’s Vs the Machines is an absolute delight. The latest movie from Sony Pictures Animation, and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Mitchell’s vs the Machines is skipping theatrical release and headed directly to Netflix on April 30th. Directed by Michael Randia, The Mitchell’s Vs the Machines is a sweet, smart and uproarious family comedy that avoids the pitfalls of many animated kids flicks by focusing on creating a group of wonderful central characters, a winning family of underachievers forced to battle robots in order to save the world.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Mortal Kombat 2021 is a Bloody Violent Good Time One of the Best Video Game Movies Ever
To say that Mortal Kombat 2021 had a low bar for me would be an understatement. I had zero hope that Mortal Kombat would be any good. The 90s takes on the Mortal Kombat video game series are borderline unwatchable, sub B-movies with laughable performances and silly looking effects. Video Game movies in general don’t tend to be very good and thus the stage was set for Mortal Kombat. The new movie would have to trip over its own feet repeatedly for me to not find it superior to what has come before it.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
- Top Story - April 2021
The Legacy of 'Bridesmaids' 10 Years Later Top Story - April 2021
It’s hard to believe but Bridesmaids arrived in theaters a decade ago. Released on April 28th, 2011, the raunchy, female-centric comedy was an immediate phenomenon. The film shot Kristen Wiig to immediate stardom and turned director Paul Feig into an A-list, in-demand, talent behind the camera. 10 years later, Bridesmaids remains a cultural touchstone. Kristen Wiig is now starring in blockbuster comic book movies, Wonder Woman 1984, and co-star Melissa McCarthy has become one of the biggest stars in the world.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks