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: ESPN 30 for 30 'Long Gone Summer'
The summer of 1998 went from something none of us baseball fans would ever forget, to one that we have all collectively tried to wash away from history. The cloud of steroids and the ugliness of lies and deceit that accompanied hearings in Washington D.C and public battles in the sports media are memories we’d all like to leave behind as much as the summer of '98 itself. It is the memories of bitter arguments among baseball historians and everyday fans that clouds what was once the most magical moment in the history of the sport, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s pursuit of Roger Maris’s single season home run record.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'The King of Staten Island' is a Mixed Bag
It’s tempting, as an observer and critic of culture, to attempt to place movies within large contexts. “What does this movie say about insert grand subject here?” That’s not a bad approach per se but when it is applied too liberally, as to ANY movie you see, it doesn’t work so well. Some movies don’t have that kind of ambition or intent. Not every movie is trying to say something important.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Bruce Lee is Well Remembered in Remarkable 'Be Water'
Imagine being incredible. Think of what it might be like to believe and be able to prove in many ways that you are exceptional. For some of us that will all we'll ever have is an imagining of our own greatness. For Bruce Lee, greatness was evident, it was provable and undeniable. And yet, despite his greatness being obvious to anyone who witnessed him, he was still denied what he should have been assured, worldwide stardom on a scale similar to or exceeding any Hollywood star in history.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Four Women Shine in 'Shirley'
Have you ever met someone whose mood is capable of controlling the temperature in the room they are in? The Shirley Jackson portrayed by Elisabeth Moss in the new movie, Shirley, is one of those people. Whatever room Shirley is in appears colder when she’s there. Her very being bespeaks a menacing intelligence so present it could bite. Shirley is portrayed here as being so quick witted that she could kill with words.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
The Inspiring Lynn Shelton: A Look Back at Humpday and Identity
R.I.P Lynn Shelton and thank you for inspiring this essay. On the latest Everyone’s a Critic podcast we paid tribute to writer-director-auteur-iconoclast, Lynn Shelton by making her 2009 movie Humpday our classic for the week. When I first saw Humpday back in 2009 I rejected it immediately as a gimmicky bit of mumblecore nonsense. I was arrogant and brash and rejecting mumblecore was part of my critical posturing, a way of establishing myself against the rise of younger, hipper critics.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Filthy
A Father, A Son, Identity and Back to the Future 3
Back to the Future 3 places me into an odd mindset 30 years later. In its innate nostalgia for the western, Back to the Future 3 took me to a place of examining the things that my father embraced as a young man, the kinds of things I thought that I had rejected in creating a personality separate from my father. In this review/essay, Back to the Future 3 will be the vehicle with which I will examine maturity, childhood, identity and my relationship with my father, abstractly of course, I would need a therapist to tackle the subject directly.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review Throwback: 'Fire Bird' Nicolas Cage Loves a Helicopter
If you thought silly almost parody levels of jingoistic patriotism was just a relic of 1980's action movies, you're not entirely wrong. That said, the genre of fetishistic love for American military might did linger a little ways into the 90's before we all started to fully tire of it. As evidence, here is Fire Birds, a 1990 love letter to American military might that doubles as a right wing thesis statement on how we could have won the war on drugs with super-cool, super-expensive helicopters.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
To Better Days and My Return to the Movies After COVID-19
Every day, amid the threat of the virus, I find ways to stay positive and think of the future. That's not easy for those of us with pre-existing lung conditions. I have asthma and I live with the specter of COVID-19 and the damage it does to the ability to breathe. It's terrifying, I have been on a ventilator and I know the horror of not catching your breath.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Humans
Top 5 Movies Set in Hawaii
The new Netflix comedy, The Wrong Missy, stars David Spade and Lauren Lapkus in a romantic comedy about a guy who invites the wrong woman named Missy on a corporate retreat to Hawaii. The film was shot in late 2019 on the Big Isle in Hawaii and well prior to the global pandemic which has made travel to one of the most beloved tourist spots in the world impossible for most.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
The 2000 Movie Project: 'The Big Tease' is the Most Forgotten Movie of the Year 2000
We are at the beginning of our exploration of film form in the year 2000 and it is likely too early to identify a particular trend, aside from bad movies, lots of bad movies early in this century, I’m looking at you Supernova and Next Friday. But if I were to force the discovery of a theme perhaps one that stands out is fumbling attempts at experimenting with film form. In Next Friday, that meant employing some of the most awkward fourth wall breaking voiceover I think I’ve ever experienced.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
The 2000s Movie Project: The Toxic Masculinity of Play it to the Bone
We have proof that Ron Shelton is a talented director. His Bull Durham is an unquestionable masterpiece. Bull Durham is arguably the greatest baseball movie ever made. Bull Durham is romantic, quirky, funny and dedicated deeply to the love of baseball. Bull Durham comes from a director who is assured, confident and masterfully in control of tone and style. How did that same director also make Play it to the Bone?
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Spaceship Earth' Rethinking the Legacy of the BioSphere
Wow! I can't believe I completely forgot that BioSphere was a thing. As a student of history and culture it is unthinkable that I could have forgotten about this unique and strange bit of history. As a fan of reference humor I certainly should have stowed this memory away to drawn upon it for comic reference but no, until I saw the documentary, Spaceship Earth, I had completely lost the memory of BioSphere.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
