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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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The midwest city was frozen by January's indifference. The death-white roads were jammed with protestors straining their voices for the Agents of Division to hear. The spit of their vitriol froze in the air. Their collective breath left low-hanging clouds over the crowd. The protestors moved as one. Every creed, colour and cosmic entity united to defend their community against an oppressive force.

ICE MELTS

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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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Do you remember Kony 2012? It was Invisible Children’s viral campaign to bring attention to Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and capture him by the end of the year. Kony 2012 was one of the most viral videos in history with over 100 million views in less than a week, shattering many records on YouTube. Young people were captured by Kony 2012 and shared the video and campaign countless times. The bright

Katniss and Kony 2012

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Shifting refers to the belief - particularly widespread among young adults - that consciousness can move to other realities, whether alternative worlds or fictional universes, and experience them as if they were real. Jessica Herrelson was a successful actress. She was the new face of many equally successful brands. Any film or series she took part in ended up winning awards. People loved her. She

Shifting is real in 2080.

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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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I’ve found that most articles for this challenge are based on action films led by brave, intelligent characters with extraordinary physical and combat skills, risking their lives in dangerous situations—often for a greater good. But I’d like to focus on the other side of the spectrum: the quiet ones. The ones who choose solitude. The ones who notice everything and feel even more. The Perks of Bein

Charlie Kelmeckis & Todd Anderson: I know what it's like to feel different

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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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We all have that guilty pleasure in our cinematic tastes, that one title we’d rather not admit to in front of discerning cinephile friends. For me, that guilty pleasure is What Women Want. Yes, the 2000 romantic comedy directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. And before anyone judges me, let me explain how a man raised on explosions, car chases, and epic one-liners from Lethal

What Women Want: My Guilty Pleasure Film

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Reflecting on my 2024 movie-going experience, I have discovered a fascinating connection between two new films. One is Foreign Tongue(original: Langue Étrangère), the latest work by French filmmaker Claire Burger, a French-German co-production that was selected for the Berlinale Competition this year. The other is Happyend, the impressive narrative debut feature by Japanese-American director Neo S

Smells like GenZ spirits: Tales of Youth in "Foreign Tongue" and "Happyend"