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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Movie Review: 'Entwined' Greek Horror Thriller is Too Familiar
You want some advice, dear reader? If someone tells you that a person or place is cursed, believe them. This goes double if you are a character in a movie. Generally speaking, a curse always exists in a movie. Any time elderly towns-people warn some young whipper-snapper that such and such castle is cursed or ‘no one goes into the curse forest,’ no one listens and people end up dead. We’ve seen it thousands of times and the new foreign thriller Entwined has only a minor twist on the convention.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Nail in the Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro'
If you were like me in the early 2000’s you probably wrote off the wrestler, Vampiro, as another failed experiment during the death throes of World Championship Wrestling’s final days. His was a face among many chucked into a stable of wrestlers, referred to as The New Blood, and because the group was about 30 wrestlers strong, not many stood out. Vampiro would have only one memorable moment during that time, a program with wrestling legend Sting that ended with a savage but ultimately failing match that took place in a graveyard.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Mulan' Feels Alive and Vital in Live Action Adaptation
Mulan 2020 is a handsome production, an epic of classic Disney imagination. Directed by the outstanding Niki Caro (Whale Rider), the story feels vital and alive and the production design is spectacular. Whether or not you’ve seen and loved the animated Mulan of the 1990’s I can imagine you falling head over heels for this splendid family adventure that empowers not only women but children in general to follow their hearts and engage in imaginative, heroic, adventure.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Using the Power of Tik Tok to Reunite a Child with a Toy. Top Story - August 2020.
It was a normal Friday as I sat in my talk radio studio in Kewanee, Illinois. I was working on a news broadcast when I looked out my window and saw Floppy. My radio station, WKEI Am 1450 in Kewanee, Illinois, sits on the Corner of one of the busiest intersections in our town. Across the street, I saw a stuffed rabbit lying on the ground and my heart broke for a moment before I leapt up, ran to the door, dodged into traffic and grabbed the stuffed bunny several feet before a Fed Ex truck was going to unknowingly run over it.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Lifehack
Movie Review: 'Breaking Fast' is a Refreshing Twist on the Rom-Com
In terms of genre convention, those well worn, easily recognizable parts and pieces of a movie, stock characters, scenes you expect, tropes, and so on, Breaking Fast is among the most conventional of movies I have seen in some time. Breaking Fast is a romantic comedy right off of an assembly line in many ways. We have a stock protagonist, an almost too good to be true hunky love interest, and familial and cultural obstacles in place to trip up our happy couple.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Centigrade' is a High Grade Survivalist Thriller
Centigrade belongs to the sub-genre of survivalist thriller. This sub-genre runs the gamut from Oscar-worthy, Best Picture candidates such as Danny Boyle's 127 Hours to Blake Lively's beachy, cheesy, shark flick, The Shallows. Centigrade ranks a little closer to 127 Hours in terms of quality, though not nearly that film's equal in artistry or drama. Rather, it's just that both films are quite serious in tone and that seriousness keeps Centigrade from being just a genre movie like The Shallows or a slightly more apt shark movie comparison, Open Water.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'You Cannot Kill David Arquette' A Love Letter to Pro Wrestling
David Arquette loves professional wrestling. For the actor best known for his work in the Scream horror franchise, wrestling is not some surreal art project or a mere cry for attention. Arquette legitimately loves and respects the artistry, athleticism, showmanship and bravery that is required of those who put on trunks and play out pre-determined athletic scenarios for crowds of people who hang on every move the way some hang on every note of a classical symphony.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Tesla' Gets Experimental
There are numerous references to the life and work of Nikola Tesla all over the pop culture landscape. Whether directors are portraying Tesla’s life caught between the twin towers of Edison and Westinghouse, The Current War, or comic book writers are having Tesla fight Superman, it’s fair to say that Tesla’s work captured many an imagination. Director Michael Almereyda is merely the latest in a long line who fancied telling Tesla’s tale.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'The One and Only Ivan' is the Good Kind of Cheesy
The One and Only Ivan is a big slice of family movie cheese from the ultimate cheese factory, Disney. The latest original to debut on Disney Plus, The One and Only Ivan tells the relatively true story of a gorilla in residence for more than 20 years as an off-ramp attraction at a Mall based Circus. The One and Only Ivan is the second feature film from director Thea Sharrock who made her name in theater and on the BBC with Call the Midwife before landing the high cheese romantic drama Me Before You in 2016.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Prey' is Yet Another Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell’s 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game is one of the most popular and influential stories of all time. Connell’s vision of a big game hunter whose grown weary of hunting animals and instead decides on a prey that has more of a fighting chance, has fascinated movie makers for decades. There are dozens of straight ahead adaptations of The Most Dangerous Game of varying titles and quality.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Boys State'
The new to Apple TV documentary Boys State is at once a major achievement and a dystopian, nightmare hellscape. Why? Well, because it’s the clearest indication yet of the damage we’ve done to our children with our ugly, thoughtless and needless political rhetoric. This documentary that should be an inspiring look at politically engaged young people seeking to become the future leaders of this country turns a harsh, unforgiving, light on the bankrupt and corrupt version of politics and leadership we are passing down to the next generation.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in The Swamp
Horror Movie Review: 'Sputnik'
A cold war based horror thriller in this day and age had better hope an audience is educated enough to understand the tropes at play. Perhaps in Russia the trope of a government capable of murdering astronauts to protect a secret new weapon might seem noteworthy and plausible. In America, the trope exists but it’s aged. The audience for a horror movie in this day and age is unlikely to be old enough to remember the intensity of the cold war and the dangers it posed, especially inside the Iron Curtain.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
