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Hello Again and Welcome to The Peliplat Dispatch It’s been a busy little stretch on Peliplat: new creators joining, Writing Challenges starting and ending, our Christmas Movie Bracket kicking off, and year-end reflections starting to bubble up. So let’s dive into what’s been happening and what’s coming next. ICYMI: The Peliplat Dispatch Issue 01 The Peliplat Dispatch Issue 02 🌟 New Creator Spotli

The Peliplat Dispatch | Issue 003

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Before I start this, I just want to deliver a quick PSA to all adults with kids: please tie your tubes. Ok, cool, let’s begin. Zootopia is a fun buddy-cop adventure set in the magical land of Zootropolis, where anthropomorphic animals replace humans. The 2nd one came out after 10 years, and I was immediately seated. Alone. By myself. Despite my adult friends' judgements. Look, I tried so hard to s

The Seductive Appeal of Wilde Hopps

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After the internet combusted from the TSITP finale, it didn't seem possible that there'd be another show to take its place. Of course, unbeknownst to me at the time, Maxton Hall had been biding its time. For those of you who don't know what Maxton Hall is, I would tell you that it's The Summer I Turned Pretty on crack. If you still have no idea what I'm talking about, then I think this might be th

Maxton Hall Needs To Bang TSITP While I Watch

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….ok just hear me out on this one. Believe me, I was quite disappointed in Materialists as well. I fell in love with the subtle romantic triangle at the heart of Celine Song’s previous effort, Past Lives. To hear that Dakota Johnson, my all-time archnemesis (the “what are butt plugs” line from Fifty Shades of Grey still haunts me to this day), was to be starring in her next feature, I was concerne

Materialists – Broke Man Propaganda or Poignant Commentary on Modern Dating?

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'Sick as a dog' is how I would describe my girlfriend last weekend. A bad case of the flu had her knocked out on the couch, and in my house, that means she gets TV privileges. It was probably the fever that led her to choose the 2023 Hunger Games movie, The Ballad of the Ladybird. The prequel sucked ass, but it infected her mind just as badly as the disease did, so over the weekend, she forced the

The Hunger Games Through the Eyes of a Guy Who'd Rather Watch Anything Else

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Before going to my first ball, I treated watching Paris Is Burning like studying for an exam that mattered. It was preparation mixed with anticipation and a little bit of fear. Ballroom culture felt like something I deeply admired but did not fully understand, so I sat down with Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary and let it guide me. It felt like a queer orientation session, except instead of pa

Paris is Burning the Gender Binary

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*spoiler-free :) I’ve spent most of my life perfecting the art of self-deprecation. Not out of humility, out of strategy. If you undersell yourself first, nobody else gets the satisfaction. It’s the emotional equivalent of beating someone to the punchline. I think it's a reflex that's been drilled into a lot of us in this generation. Self-belief is strangely controversial in contemporary culture,

Marty Supreme and the Pursuit of Greatness

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Source: Kayla Oaddams/ Steven Ferdman/ Paul Archuleta/ Astrid Stawiarz / Getty LOVE IS BLIND With each new drop, post, and event attended, reality TV fans fall deeper in love with the personalities they have come to adore. From podcast tours to live shows and sold-out meet-and-greets, these stars have quickly become the celebrity class of our era, leaving Hollywood’s polished elite to play catch-u

The Blurred Lines Between Hollywood and Reality TV Fame

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2025 was not my year. On paper, from the outside, it looked pretty solid: I graduated formally from my PhD programme, got a really interesting part time gig in research impact, made new friends, taught my own short course on Studio Ghibli to a lovely group of students, and started writing for this brilliant website as a verified critic. All of that was, and is, wonderful, but it's far from the ful

Tearing Through 2025 with Chainsaw Man

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I have a lot of feelings about Wicked For Good. Not many thoughts, but a lot of feelings. To tell you the full story though, we have to go back to the beginning. Before 2024, my best friend and I had no idea what to expect from Wicked. We only knew three things about it. 1. It was a musical 2. It had something to do with The Wizard of Oz 3. It was about two girls who meet at university and become

Wicked For Good Makes Me Grateful for My Glinda

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When people talk about a film that defines their entire year, they're not often the types of films that are meant to rip you apart. Typically people mention a really popular title that happens to be really well-made or was merely an entertaining watch. And while there are more films that I could talk about, one in particular that I'm choosing to right now is I Saw the Devil (2010). Yes, a Korean h

'I Saw the Devil' Still Has a Grip on Me This Year

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This year, I joined Raymond Garraty, Peter McVries, and more on The Long Walk. The Long Walk, based on Stephen King’s novel, takes place in a dystopian America where teenage boys compete in a deadly annual walking contest where they must continue moving or face execution until only one boy remains. Though I do not find myself in a nightmarish 1970’s America, the message of King’s story still rings

The Long Walk of 2025

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2025… another year where I thought my life would finally look different. But instead, much of it felt like an echo of the years before. And yet, when I try to look at the good—because there was good—I remind myself that my year was kinder to me than many of the stories circulating online. On the bright side, my health improved in ways I didn’t even expect. My eyesight got better—something I didn’t

Finding Myself in Zootopia

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If Marlow was going to commit suicide—and this time, he really was—he wasn’t about to make some elaborate production of it. He refused to leave behind a situation which needed cleaning up. That meant not hanging himself, not slitting his wrists, and definitely not shooting himself. Sleeping pills were the obvious choice, but Marlow’s brother had died of an overdose, and he just couldn’t bring hims

A Bad Day to Die

10+ Peliplaters sent LIGHT

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If you love slow burn thrillers and wild reveals, then Holland is your next obsessive rewatch. Buckle up and adjust your prescription lenses before you hit play , because Holland 2025 is not your average suburban thriller…. This film is packed with nods from the director Mimi Caves favorite auteurs, and she’s not shy about it. There’s a little Hitchcock and dare I say, a dash of David Lynch in how

Mimi Cave’s Vision of Domestic Horror and The Male Gaze

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Adolescence is a brilliant display of the dangers of this bizarre wave of gender ideology that is swarming the internet. The Red Pill. This article will be a praise to the series, sure, but also a slight critique, since as a teacher I have seen how this mentality is affecting young people (specially men) and how dangerous this can be. The series opens with an operative breaking into a house, a sce

A Warning To All Parents

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For a very long time, Hollywood was described, showcased and everything in between as the biggest juggernaut in the world. Even other countries like Europe or Bollywood were afraid. It is where the best movies are made, where all the greatest movie stars lived and where is the backlot for many movies and tv shows. But in recent times, the camera has evolved and taken a step further into the world

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