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Have you guys heard of these backrooms? The secret liminal spaces lurking on the other side of the ones we inhabit every single day? I look for them all the time now since watching Backrooms, a movie with a concept and flair so tantalising I think my brain is literally still stuck wandering its fluorescent hallways. Kind of like the characters in the movie, I stumbled upon the world of Backrooms b

There usually comes a point in any underground thing; every movement, every scene, every culture born in the damp and dark, when the lights come up. When the tourists arrive, or the magazine sends a writer. And the question hangs unspoken in the air, the one that always matters: what did we lose to get here? New Queer Cinema was born angry, and born broke. It was born in the specific and necessary

Welcome back to The Peliplat Dispatch! A newsletter rounding up all the recent highlights on Peliplat, brought to you by… Me! Alex, from the Peliplat HQ. Read all the previous issues of The Peliplat Dispatch here 🔦 new creator spotlight 🔦 Amongst all the challenges and events, it's easy to miss some diamonds in the rough. I highly recommend checking out these new writers. Give them a follow & re

Throughout my life, I've had the misfortune of being on one side of almost every romantic interaction. It didn't matter if they reciprocated even a little, because I idealized their humanness, making even the most mundane person into an intricate three-act-structure plot rom-com that I myself am an avid audience for. I see people like poetry – something to figure out, to make sense of, and to admi

I went to a fan event Wednesday night for Masters of the Universe. Not because I’m a fan, but because Page is out of town and I run a website (that garners around 50 views a week, mainly hate-views?). I wasn’t sure what He-Man fans look like, obviously it’s mainly men, but as far as age goes, I’m not really sure. The original cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dates back from 1983, so

I get it. 1984 is not your style. Too bleak. The greyscale aesthetic is a damper. Maybe that's why you've avoided dystopias for so long. There isn't anything to cling to in all the achromatic stillness, the black and whites that just merge and blend into one shade. Into one movie. And what kind of uniformity is that? Not an interesting kind, for sure. How to know you're oppressed in dystopian fict

Yesterday, I saw the most recent Jim Jarmusch film, Father Mother Sister Brother (2025). I live in South America, so I couldn't watch it earlier. The film was released in this hemisphere five months after its first time rolling on a screen, in Italy, December, 2025. I've been following Jarmusch's work since my teenage years, while falling in love with all kinds of movies. So I have a pretty comple

Now this is what we need in 2026: big moustaches, slow-burn romances, 80s hits, and David Tennant owning the screen as a conniving, revenge-seeking, philandering television executive. The talented (and downright attractive) cast of Rivals' second season successfully turns a raunchy, morally-technicolour drama into a heavy-hitting romance with some excellent needle drops and potent conflicts remini