Pakes on Film
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Jamie’s Substack
My personal Substack
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Lately
Violence and Accountability in No Other Choice and The Big Short
American Psycho, Barking Dogs Never Bite, and abstract violence
The Truman show, Pokémon, and the isolation of a false world.
The films of Robert Eggers
Nolan's Odyssey makes Homer's epic suitably epic
How calling someone a villain risks flattening discourse
Flow gives a cat an existential crisis
My 9 most anticipated films for the rest of 2026
I still love The Boy and the Heron.
Ranking all 9 releases I've watched this year
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