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The Sunshine Man

The Sunshine Man

Urban StarPeliplat's Epic ScribblerParticipant "My 2024 WTF Cinema Moment"

Alto Knights: The Rotten Cannoli of the Gangster Micro-Universe

Year 1990. While your nonna cooks fettuccine in a huge pot with the classic pomodoro sauce and stew, your mom asks you to grab the wine, fizzy water, sodas and put them on the table. The table has no cloth so you ask your grandpa where it is. Your dad is chopping garlic in small pieces for the sauce, and the dogs bark at the entrance. You step away because you understand the concentration needed for such a culinary task. Your grandpa glances at you while closely watching the Formula One race on

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The DC

The DC

Local LegendEditor Pick "My Guilty Pleasure"Participant "Red Flags Films"

VSFF '25 Reviews | We Were, Tailor Made, The Neighbourhood at the End of the World

As a part of the Peliplat content team, I’ve had the opportunity to dive into some short films that are screening at this year's Vancouver International Short Film Festival. Although there's no set theme for the festival, I didn’t expect memory to be the thread that would tie these films together. Through complete randomness, these stories about love, heartbreak, exile, and doppelgangers are in dialogue with each other. Even more unexpected was the fact that, years ago, I was (very briefly and t

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JamieL

JamieL

Peliplat's Epic ScribblerChatterbox CharmingUrban Star

Mission: Impossible Ends… Or Does It?

After watching the nearly three-hour-long Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in theaters, I breathed a long sigh of relief, thinking, “Finally, it's over.” I don't mean to imply that the eighth Mission: Impossible was pure boredom, but that was my immediate reaction after seeing Tom Cruise—the star and soul of the series—perform death-defying stunts: falling from dizzying heights to the earth below. A prolonged cinematic spectacle and the invincible heroic image of Agent Ethan Hunt bombar

Solis Aureo: I felt that Tom Cruise was too narcissistic. This narcissism made me feel lost. I didn’t know whether I paid for a movie or to watch Cruise’s self-admiration.

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Gwen Pem

Gwen Pem

Cinephile PanelManuscript MagicianUrban Star

You're Missing the Point of The Last of Us

The internet really pisses me off sometimes. Watching season two of The Last of Us week by week has definitely been an experience. I've never played the video games that the show is based on, so everything that happened in the first three episodes has been a complete surprise. I would suggest that you keep it that way if you can. There will be spoilers here, but not just yet. I have some stuff I need to get off my chest first. In the finale of season one, when Ellie's life is at stake, Joel slau

MovieZone: I am a gamer and in fact very faithful to the game and I understand the people who feel that Joel is the main character, and it is as you mention, it is because of the charisma they have for Pedro, however those of us who have played the video games know that the main character in the first game is Joel and the affection they have for him is because it is not the same to see season 1 which lasts about 8 hours, than to play with the character for about 40 hours (this for those who have only played the first game). Now if you have completed the second game you will understand that Abby is not a villain, just one side of the same coin q Ellie .... Abby avenged her father and Ellie in the second game seeks revenge on Abby, both seek to avenge her father, but one is accustomed to, let's call it that way, team 1.

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ThomasBabalola

ThomasBabalola

Local LegendInked ExplorerParticipant "Fresh Film Focus"

Chuck Norris vs. the Predator: A Legend Too Tough to Hunt

In the steamy, unforgiving jungles of Central America, a mission unfolds that no ordinary man could survive. But this is no ordinary tale, for the leader of this elite commando team is not Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch from the 1987 classic Predator.No! It's Chuck Norris, the toughest being that ever liveth.The Predator also known as a Yautja in expanded lore is a towering, highly intelligent alien species bred for one thing: to stalk and eliminate the strongest prey they can find.The Predators

Fiorella Crepaldi: An incredible article!! I invite you to read mine about Snow White "This isn’t the fairest of them all: The Snow White remake that lost its soul" and leave a like if you liked it, it is in another category. Thank you!!

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Beautiful People-- Comedically Suffering-- Karmically-Caused-- For "Two Weeks-- In Bruges-- Wichu?"

As another fantastic season of Mike White's The White Lotus (his third) comes to a blistering close-- I'm once again reminded of a particularly niche-in-specificity-- cinematic-subset-genre that I often find myself largely hankering for, drawing towards and returning back to. That of which I like to call-- "Beautiful People Being Utterly Miserable, While Totally Trapped In Paradise, & Comically Stuck On Vacation." What should ostensibly be a totally fun time in the sun-- usually instead tends to

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She Loves Explosions

She Loves Explosions

Inked ExplorerLocal Legend

The Final Reckoning Broke My Heart

Out of all the spy movies that I devoured at a young age, Mission: Impossible was always my favourite. There was something about Ethan Hunt in particular that drew me in. He wasn't a flawless badass like James Bond, but no matter what was thrown at him, he could always figure it out. His competence and total commitment to the cause were what set him apart for me. As an anxious little kid who spent a lot of time thinking about everything that could possibly go wrong, I was inspired by Ethan's abi

Matthew Alan Schmidt: Talk about a nose dive to end off the franchise.

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Fran Casillas

Fran Casillas

Inked ExplorerLocal Legend

🍿 Popcorn Patriotism & the Mother Complex: Rogue Nation and the Birth of the Franchise’s Final Form

At some point, franchises stop fidgeting. They shed the trial-and-error adolescence and become something else entirely—ritualized, reliable, rewatchable. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is that moment. The fifth installment isn’t just another spy flick; it’s the final alchemical step where all the ingredients—tone, tempo, Tom—fuse into brand identity. Like the precise mix of the Powerpuff Girls, this is M:I in its purest, most self-assured form. You feel it instantly. This is no longer a film

Ishika: Wow, this was such a fun read. Loved the comparison to the Powerpuff Girls and the idea of the franchise finally "hardening into canon". Also totally agree about Ilsa Faust; she’s not just a cool character, she means something in the way she interacts with Ethan. The maternal reading is wild but makes so much sense once you lay it out. And yeah, at this point we’re all just here to see what absolutely unhinged thing Tom Cruise is gonna do next—like cinematic stunt therapy.

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Let Girls be Whimsical: How the Minecraft Movie and the Entertainment Industry Fail Women

A few weeks ago, I saw the Minecraft movie at long last. Was it a good movie? No. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely. I watched the movie in a local theatre with my best friend and 4 other people. It was great! We cheered every time there was an iconic line from the trailer, like “Flint and Steel”, or “I am Steve”, or even the infamous “Chicken Jockey”. (We did not throw popcorn at the screen because we are CIVILIZED!) Say what you will about the writing of the movie, but you have to admit it created a

Matthew Alan Schmidt: The female characters in this movie got shafted so hard. The writers just had them go off and play house while the boys went on the actual adventure.

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cinejanie

cinejanie

Participant "The Character I Want to Date"Urban StarParticipant "My 2024 WTF Cinema Moment"

Sinners Might Be the Best Film of the Year

It felt like everyone around me was talking about Sinners for a while. They said it was the best film of the year so far, that it was destined to become a modern classic, and that Ryan Coogler was a genius. The descriptions piled up like a challenge, “A vampire musical Western religious thriller fused with Black history.” Who could resist that? And yet, maybe that’s exactly why I hesitated. When a film is described as “magical” as that, is it because it really has something to say, or is it just

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Lucas.

Lucas.

Cinephile PanelParagraph ProdigyThe Film Collector

Wes Finds God

Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme is funny, symmetrical, and surprisingly action packed, but at its core is the story of a stoic businessman coping with his own mortality and morality. It's Anderson's most spiritual movie yet, one that was inspired by the death of his "larger-than-life" father-in-law, whom the movie is dedicated to. Consequently, the movie stares death in the eye without a glimmer of fear. It may not have had the emotional depths that I wanted Anderson to return to, but it wa

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Ishika

Ishika

Cinephile PanelManuscript MagicianUrban Star

Simulating Connection in Rehearsal

We can never really know what someone else is thinking; what we understand is always just a perception, flawed and easily twisted by circumstances and emotions. Watching Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal often feels like staying up late alone with your thoughts, obsessively replaying every unhinged moment and bad decision in your life, except with a twist—there’s a camera recording it all, forcing you to face those moments again and again. In theory, that sounds like a nightmare, but as a televisio

elle driver: still not over the way nathan laid down on that guys bed

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