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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Documentary Review: 'Truth to Power' Celebrates Art Changing the World
Though System of a Down became popular and relevant during a time when I should have taken notice of them, I somehow have managed to miss out on their career entirely. Where once I was plugged into nearly every music scene and every relevant popular band on those scenes, after September 11th, 2001, I fell out of love with any music that was not a comforting reminder of a pre-terrorism past.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Silk Road'
From 2011 to 2013, you could hardly engage in internet content without hearing about Silk Road. Silk Road was the pirate, dark web, website where users were able to obtain just about anything they desired. Pioneered by young entrepreneur, Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road was a fiefdom, an 'international waters' on the internet, the wild west of the World Wide Web.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Burn it All'
“Why are you so angry?” “Calm down” “Why are women are so emotional?” These are just a few of the trigger phrases for women that have persisted through the years. Insecure and clueless members of the male gender have used these phrases to deflect the feelings of women since time immemorial. The new action-suspense thriller, Burn it All uses the tropes of the thriller genre to show a woman who is just over it. She’s over the patriarchy, she’s over being talked down to, and she’s just over the misogyny of men in general.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Viva
Movie Review: 'The Blackout'
The Blackout is a charming movie filled with characters who are smart, intelligent and romantic. This tiny, low budget, drama about friends gathering for a party in a New York City apartment just as Hurricane Sandy is hammering the City is filled with heart, romance, humor and genuine heartfelt emotion. I mean this in the kindest way possible, the movie is reminiscent of a millennial take on The Big Chill, minus the pretension and the killer soundtrack that outshines the actual movie.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Young Hearts'
Most of us have nostalgia for a first love. You likely remember that first person who stirred up your hormones and with whom you enacted what you assumed a relationship was like. Adolescent fumbling's of first kisses and sexual experimentation are among the most universal of human memories. That said, most of us did not have the most cinematic experience. Sure, the lens of time has rendered the memories in a fashion that has kept the highlights, but it wasn’t exactly the thing a great narrative is built upon.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Mauritanian'
While it has slipped from the American public consciousness, the international community will likely not soon forget what America did at so-called ‘Black Sites’ around the globe and at the well known island prison of Guantanamo Bay. Many of us would like to put this memory out of our minds and pretend like it was not important. Movies like the new legal drama The Mauritanian refuse to allow that to happen.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in The Swamp
Movie Review: 'To All the Boys: Always and Forever'
I must admit my complete ignorance of Netflix’s To All the Boys film series. Until the pandemic began, I didn’t do much Netflix and chill, I was busy at the movie theater. I would take time to check out Netflix when they did something big and splashy like The Irishman, but, for the most part, I ignored the rest of the streaming channel’s output, especially their many, MANY, young adult products which are so numerous as to have completely run together into a blob of high schools and hormones.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Minari'
The American dream is for everyone. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, the American dream, prosperity, independence, freedom, are available to everyone. Some people place hurdles in front of the dream based on their prejudice, petty hatreds, and ignorance. But those hurdles can take nothing away from the true American dream and those who fight to achieve it. A good example of that is the new movie Minari.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Families
Movie Review: 'X' Camp Erotic Thriller Subverts Expectations
X is a movie that is difficult to describe. It’s not a pornographic movie but it is a very sexual movie. It’s not a thriller but it’s not a straight drama either. It’s a very modern movie with a strong eye toward the pansexuality of modern, big city youth culture. It also has elements of social media satire, and a wildly strange conclusion that has stuck with me in the several days since I watched the movie.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Filthy
Movie Review: 'French Exit'
If you’re curious about the title, French Exit, specifically what is a ‘French Exit,' the Wiktionary defines a French Exit as “A hasty exit without farewells to anybody.” It is, indeed, an apt title for the new comedy from director Azazel Jacobs, the writer-director of the lovely romantic comedy of manners, The Lovers. In French Exit, Jacobs re-teams with his The Lovers’ star Tracy Letts who portrays the voice of a cat.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Judas and the Black Messiah'
In January of 1990, a documentary called Eyes on the Prize 2 was aired on PBS. The documentary contained the one and only interview ever conducted with former FBI informant Ron O’Neal. The documentary aired on the night of Martin Luther King Jr Day and that night, after the documentary aired, Ron O’Neal committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic. Seemingly, O’Neal could no longer live with what he’d done as an FBI informant in the late 1960’s.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review 'More than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story'
What do you know about Pat Morita? You likely know that he was Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid. If you’re older you may remember Morita as Arnold, the proprietor of the restaurant hang out for the Happy Days gang. But did you know that Pat Morita found his first success as a stand up comic? I sure didn’t and the problematic aspects of his fame in the 1960s and 1970s is a cringe inducing trip into the American history of racism.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks