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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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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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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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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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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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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 alie

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

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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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It’s impossible to talk about a biopic of a fallen neo-liberal idealist without looking at the social and economic landscape of Silicon Valley at the time. In the mid-'90s, during the dot-com boom, tech startups thrived under the belief that technology would liberate society—a movement known as the Californian ideology. This new wave of laid-back innovators, rejecting traditional corporate culture

Is The Social Network Still Relevant?

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What's a guilty pleasure? Who determines what's good or bad? Personally, I don't let myself get carried away by others' opinions. I experienced it recently with Anora, Sean Baker's new movie everyone around the world is praising. As a fan of his cinema, I could have easily gotten carried away by everyone, but I simply didn't connect with it. I'm not that kind of fan who glorifies with anticipation

25 reasons to love Zack Snyder's 300

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Squid Game Season 2 officially debuted on December 26, releasing all seven episodes at once. Even before airing, Squid Game 2 was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series at the start of this month. This new season’s plotline picks up right where the first season left off. After winning a massive prize of 45.6 billion won (roughly 31 million USD), Seong Gi-hun re-enters the deadly

Squid Game Season 2: The Curse of the Sequel Strikes Again