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Welcome back to your monthly digest of everything worth reading, writing, and talking about on Peliplat. February can be kind of a blah month in the real world. Luckily those rules don't apply on Peliplat. ✨ Read all the previous issues of The Peliplat Dispatch here 🔥 Trending on Peliplat 🔥 These topics and pieces have been sparking conversation across the community lately: 🎬 🏆Oscars & Awards

The Peliplat Dispatch | Issue 006

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Political activist Fannie Lou Hamer said, “Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.” It’s this kind of tenacity that changes the course of history. Films exist to bear witness and preserve our collective memory where politics and power would prefer we for

Cry Freedom: Blessed Are The Filmmakers

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Dearest Gentle Reader, As yet another season waltzes in with its diamond-encrusted heel and rosy-lipped smiles, a question hovers heavily amidst the glamour of high society: will the lingering jewelled emerald courtship of the last season of Bridgerton continue to disenchant us? Or, perhaps, it is time to dust off our chagrin and start anew. It can be spoken with great certainty that the spectacle

Yours In Scandal, Lady Whistledown

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After growing up and now being in your 20s it has been rare to see a precise representation of the journey you have taken. While yes there have been many teenage surrounding films, none of them have felt entirely accurate. They tend to be over dramatized or too cheesy in what characters do. There have not been enough films, or television shows, that showcase the actuality of the coming-of-age. The

There's Nothing Better than an Honest and Accurate Coming of Age Film

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Many stories begin in a place where reality has failed to meet our expectations. Nothing is more satisfying to the human mind than an alternative ending – one where good prevails and justice is restored. From time to time, everyone needs a fairy tale that dares to sell a dream. Storytelling itself is a form of resistance. When you are placed in a small box filled with suffering, you pick up a piec

Dark Fantasies of the Suppressed Mind

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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 n

You're Missing the Point of The Last of Us

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What combination would take down any criminal, villain or ne'er-do-well? For me, it’s the combination of an alien with godlike power that’s known across a large portion of the (DC) universe and some random bald guy in a yellow costume. Superman and Saitama (One Punch Man, in case you didn’t know) are some of the most powerful heroes in fiction. They each have the ability to destroy planets but con

Super Punch: Who’s the strongest? Who knows

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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 St

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

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… You end up in a conversation somehow (lucky you!), and discover you both like movies. You, a man at least ten years her senior who is for some reason interested in this university student, how do you catch her interest? Did you say you would recommend the movie Perfume : The Story of a Murderer? No? Well good job, you’re not deranged! What a pity that some people don’t have the same basic common

You see a young woman alone in a bar…

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Sometimes miracles happen in cinema. Incredibly stupid ideas give birth to formidably entertaining films. How this happens is a mystery, but it's probably due to a combo of a great cast, a good director and a smart script that keeps the pacing devilishly (!) fast and doesn't have the luxury of questioning the credibility of the horrible underlying idea of the whole story. How Universal Pictures gr

How to create a great cult movie from a ridiculous idea, The Car, 1977

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I’m a big believer in Bob Dylan and an even bigger disbeliever in biopics. So when I heard about the inevitable release of a Dylan biopic helmed by Hollywood journeyman James Mangold, my reaction was anxiety, puzzlement, and rejection—because a genius like Dylan can’t possibly fit into the constraints of a traditional biopic. We already have an excellent non-traditional Dylan biopic: Todd Haynes’

A Complete Unknown: I’ve seen it, and I don’t hate it (and Timmy Chalamet isn’t a bad Dylan)