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Patrick Scott

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Patrick Scott is a recent graduate from Monash University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Communications. He is a freelance film reviewer based in Melbourne, and contributor to Janks Reviews. Deserted island movie collection: LOTR Trilogy, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Spirited Away, anything by Stanley Kubrick and Pixar. Favourite movie snack: Popcorn.
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'The Integrity of Joseph Chambers' Review - A Cautionary Tale

By Patrick Scott
20/08/22
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'Moonage Daydream' Review - An Immersive Musical Experience

By Patrick Scott
13/08/22

The first film approved by the Bowie estate, Moonage Daydream, is the third documentary feature by Brett Morgen and by far, his most experimental.

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'Flux Gourmet' Review - Culinary Style with a Pinch of Substance

By Patrick Scott
05/08/22

Filmmaker Peter Strickland has developed a shorthand for horror and tension in his cinematic oeuvre with a fetishistic soundscape of food, objects and even the idiosyncrasies of characters. His latest film, Flux Gourmet, sardonically offers a dual perspective on food as pleasure and pain.

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'Like a Dirty French Novel' Review - Inept Low-Budget Viewing

By Patrick Scott
07/09/21

Like A Dirty French Novel intertwines the stories of two estranged brothers, a sex-phone operator and a cosplayer, set to the backdrop of the current Covid pandemic.

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'Disclosure' Review - A Tense and Confronting Australian Drama

By Patrick Scott
30/08/21

Disclosure is a confronting tale about two close couples whose friendships implode through the allegation that one of their children was sexually abused by the other.

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'You Cannot Kill David Arquette' Review - Wrestling and Redemption

By Patrick Scott
26/08/21

You Cannot Kill David Arquette is the redemptive tale of washed-up Hollywood actor David Arquette and his attempt to redeem the mistakes of his past.

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'Annette' Review - Quirky and Absurd Musical Drama is an Experience

By Patrick Scott
19/08/21

After the band Sparks’ two previous failed attempts to make a musical film, first with Italian slapstick actor Jacques Tati, then with Tim Burton, the third time is the charm in French filmmaker Leos Carax’s Annette.

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'La Verónica' Review - Quest for Social Media Influence at its Most Pitiful

By Patrick Scott
13/08/21

La Verónica (literally) centres on social media star and footballer’s wife Veronica (Mariana Di Girólamo), whose persistent efforts to procure a sponsorship deal is derailed by re-surfaced murder charges of their infant child from many years ago.

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'The Ice Road' Review - Liam Neeson Action-Thriller Stumbles

By Patrick Scott
12/08/21

Set in the icy tundra of Manitoba, Canada, The Ice Road is a race-against-time action thriller that pits Liam Neeson not only against thin ice roads that could crack at any minute but also corporate greed.

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'Fanny Lye Deliver'd' Review - A Hypnotic and Violent Period Thriller

By Patrick Scott
30/07/21

Fanny Lye Deliver’d is a quasi-Western set just after the English Civil War, circa 1657, in a period of moral and sexual liberation, as well as barbaric violence.

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'Dating Amber' Review - Queer Teenage RomCom is a Charm

By Patrick Scott
08/07/21

Dating Amber centres on Eddie and Amber, two gay teenagers who fake a romantic relationship at school to convince their tormenting classmates they are straight and otherwise ‘normal’.

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'Minamata' Review - A Powerful True Story Lacks Sympathetic Lead

By Patrick Scott
05/06/21

Minamata captures the harrowing real-life story of Japanese locals suffering shocking neurological and physical paralysis from severe mercury poisoning in the water supply of its coastal towns.

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