• How Did This Become a Cultural Phenomena?

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Film Friday This film from the turn of the century launched a major magical fantasy film franchise, with 8 films, 3 spinoffs and more. It was also a major cultural phenomena for many years and while perhaps not as big now as it once was, it still remains…

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    Here at Perligo we would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! -Perligo

  • A24’s New Film “Warfare” Looks Incredible

    A new trailer from the studio A24 just released for a film simply entitled Warfare. The project is written and directed by an Iraq War Veteran named “Ray Mendoza” and Alex Garland, who was the director of Ex Machina and a film called Civil War which released earlier in 2024. Ray Mendoza was the military…

  • A Pretentious and Awful Film, Batman’s Motivations and more… | November in Review

    The Latest from The Perligo Podcast God As Form Plato and Divine Simplicity | Episode 008 In this final part of my series on Plato and Divine Simplicity, I conclude this series by laying out all four accounts of Form in comparison. Stop Destroying Tolkien’s Work I am disappointed. The first trailer for the new,…

  • The Assassin Pastor

    This recently released film, with a small budget and a relatively unknown cast of actors, tells a remarkable true story – set during Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.

  • A Track-by-Track Analysis and Review of Jady’s “The Haze”

    In 2022, the band Jady released their debut album entitled “The Haze,” which introduced listeners both to their music and the conceptual world which they were building. In this video, I will walk through and review the album in its entirety. Throughout this entire album we can see that there is this theme of fantasy…

  • Why Are They Making A Live-Action Version of “How To Train Your Dragon?”

    Universal Pictures just released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming live action remake of their animated trilogy: How To Train Your Dragon. The film is currently expected to release in theaters next June. Just from a short teaser this looks like the prime example of why remakes – especially remakes of an animated movie…

  • The Competing Motivations in “The Batman”

    Matt Reeves’ take on the character of Batman in his 2022 film The Batman, is an interesting one. Not only did he aim to deliver a new version of the character in a darker, grittier version of Gotham, he also turned the iconic comic-book hero into an anti-hero. At the beginning of this film, the…

  • Pretentious and Awful

    Megalopolis | Film Friday This is perhaps one of the oddest films released so far this year. It is a passion project from the director of the Godfather films and has received a somewhat divisive reception from audience and critics alike. The trailers which preceded its theatrical release failed to spark my interest, but the…

  • Tyler Joseph Confirms The Dema Story Is Not Over

    During an interview that was conducted during Tyler Joseph’s performance with Q101 (which was recently released on YouTube but was actually recorded back in October) Tyler revealed two things that are very interesting and significant. First of all, as many suspected, the end of the Paladin Strait music video is not the end of the…