Contra Zoom Pod
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Film based podcast Contra Zoom, hosted by Dakota Arsenault Vancouver/Toronto. Co-founder of @cascadiacritics https://linktr.ee/contrazoompod
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New review! Influencers is the sequel to the 2022 horror film Influencer. This time CW and her new girlfriend have a weekend getaway in France where things for the social media star quickly turn deadly. Click to read @brodiecotnam.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: Influencers - Contra Zoom Pod
Influencers, is a the sequel to the 2022 Shudder film Influencer about a young woman who tries to escape her past trauma but can't.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New review! Influencers is the sequel to the 2022 horror film Influencer. This time CW and her new girlfriend have a weekend getaway in France where things for the social media star quickly turn deadly. Click to read @brodiecotnam.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: Influencers - Contra Zoom Pod
Influencers, is a the sequel to the 2022 Shudder film Influencer about a young woman who tries to escape her past trauma but can't.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New review! Influencers is the sequel to the 2022 horror film Influencer. This time CW and her new girlfriend have a weekend getaway in France where things for the social media star quickly turn deadly. Click to read @brodiecotnam.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️ review.
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New review! With the physical release of HIM, Jeff Bulmer reviews both this occult football themed horror movie starring Marlon Wayans and the Collector’s Edition home release. Click to read his ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: HIM – Physical Release - Contra Zoom Pod
HIM, directed by Justin Tipping, is a occult football film where a rookie quarterback must learn more than just the playbook from the veteran GOAT.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
New review! With the physical release of HIM, Jeff Bulmer reviews both this occult football themed horror movie starring Marlon Wayans and the Collector’s Edition home release. Click to read his ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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New review! Meadowlarks tells the story of four adult indigenous siblings who meet for the first time after all being victims of the 60’s scoop. What starts out as a group of strangers eventually becomes something special. Read @plexsty.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: Meadowlarks - Contra Zoom Pod
In Meadowlarks, four adult indigenous siblings meet for the first time after being victims of the 60's Scoop in Canada.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New review! Meadowlarks tells the story of four adult indigenous siblings who meet for the first time after all being victims of the 60’s scoop. What starts out as a group of strangers eventually becomes something special. Read @plexsty.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Have you checked out the latest podcast? Here are our double bill pairings we would make with Room. Kramer vs Kramer (Dakota’s pick), Prisoners (Matthew’s pick) and The Lovely Bones (Alex’s pick). What would you make as a double bill pairings?
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November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Have you checked out the latest podcast? Here are our double bill pairings we would make with Room. Kramer vs Kramer (Dakota’s pick), Prisoners (Matthew’s pick) and The Lovely Bones (Alex’s pick). What would you make as a double bill pairings?
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New review! Heaven is a re-release of Diane Keaton’s 1987 debut film as a director where she made a documentary about interviewing people about their thoughts on heaven and the afterlife. Click to read @plexsty.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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Reviews: Heaven - Contra Zoom Pod
Heaven, the directorial debut of Diane Keaton, is a documentary asking everyday people their thoughts on the afterlife that originally came out in 1987.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New review! Heaven is a re-release of Diane Keaton’s 1987 debut film as a director where she made a documentary about interviewing people about their thoughts on heaven and the afterlife. Click to read @plexsty.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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New episode! We continue our A24 Retrospective series with 2015’s Room directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. Guest Alex Southey joins the show to discuss it. Click link in bio to listen!
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318: A24 Retrospective - Room
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November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New episode! We continue our A24 Retrospective series with 2015’s Room directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. Guest Alex Southey joins the show to discuss it. Click link in bio to listen!
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In honour of the great Martin Scorsese’s birthday, here is my ranking of the 17 films I’ve seen of his. What’s your favourite?
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In honour of the great Martin Scorsese’s birthday, here is my ranking of the 17 films I’ve seen of his. What’s your favourite?
New review! Tatsumi follows a low level Yakuza cleaner who accidentally gets embroiled in a conflict when he tries to help out a young woman. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: Tatsumi - Contra Zoom Pod
Final Rating: 3/5 Tatsumi, a gritty crime drama from Japanese director Hiroshi Shôji, stars Yûya Endô as the titular Tatsumi, a man caught up in the world of low level Yakuza gangsters. He spends his ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New review! Tatsumi follows a low level Yakuza cleaner who accidentally gets embroiled in a conflict when he tries to help out a young woman. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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New reviews! The Leiden International Film Festival in the Netherlands just wrapped up and @elysiacb.bsky.social was there to write about Sentimental Value, Arco, Eternity, Rental Family and more! Click link to read!
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Reviews: 2025 Leiden International Film Festival Round Up - Contra Zoom Pod
The Leiden International Film Festival, the Netherlands’ premiere festival for international narrative film just finished and we have reviews from the fest.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New reviews! The Leiden International Film Festival in the Netherlands just wrapped up and @elysiacb.bsky.social was there to write about Sentimental Value, Arco, Eternity, Rental Family and more! Click link to read!
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New review! Nuremberg tells the story of the famous Nazi trials after the war. Hermann Göring Was the highest ranked official tried and here we see what went into prosecuting him. Click to read @plexsty.bsky.social's ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: Nuremberg - Contra Zoom Pod
James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg recreates the famous trials of high ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring and the men who tried him.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New review! Nuremberg tells the story of the famous Nazi trials after the war. Hermann Göring Was the highest ranked official tried and here we see what went into prosecuting him. Click to read @plexsty.bsky.social's ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Frequent @contrazoompod.bsky.social guest Paulo Bautista, had the pleasure of attending the NYFF. He reports back with audio diaries on films he saw.
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Contra Zoom Pod Episode 317: 2025 New York Film Festival Diaries
Frequent CZP guest Paulo Bautista, had the pleasure of attending the NYFF. He reports back with audio diaries on films he saw.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Frequent @contrazoompod.bsky.social guest Paulo Bautista, had the pleasure of attending the NYFF. He reports back with audio diaries on films he saw.
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New episode! We have a special dispatch episode from frequent guest Paulo Bautista. He reviews 6 films he saw during the New York Film Festival including No Other Choice, Sentimental Value, Scarlett and more! Click link in bio to listen.
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317: 2025 New York Film Festival Diaries
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New episode! We have a special dispatch episode from frequent guest Paulo Bautista. He reviews 6 films he saw during the New York Film Festival including No Other Choice, Sentimental Value, Scarlett and more! Click link in bio to listen.
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With the latest version of Frankenstein coming out from director Guillermo del Toro, @contrazoompod.bsky.social look's back at the history of this monster movie.
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Contra Zoom Pod Episode 316: Old, Young and New Frankenstein
With the latest version of Frankenstein coming out from director Guillermo del Toro, we look back at the history of this monster movie.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
With the latest version of Frankenstein coming out from director Guillermo del Toro, @contrazoompod.bsky.social look's back at the history of this monster movie.
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New review! The Things You Kill is a drama from Turkey about a man who slowly is losing everything in his life and struggles to keep things together. The film is Canada’s submission for the Oscars this year. Click to read @plexsty.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review!
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Reviews: The Things You Kill - Contra Zoom Pod
Final Rating: 4/5 Family secrets bubble to the surface as an English teacher in Turkey wrestles with the untimely passing of his mother. Alireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill challenges viewers from t...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New review! The Things You Kill is a drama from Turkey about a man who slowly is losing everything in his life and struggles to keep things together. The film is Canada’s submission for the Oscars this year. Click to read @plexsty.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review!
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New review! Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a deconstruction of the spy genre taking classic tropes and cliches and putting a microscope on them to show the grim reality. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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Reviews: Reflection in a Dead Diamond from TADFF 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a surreal recontexulizes the spy genre by questioning the escapist fantasy nature they so often present.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
New review! Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a deconstruction of the spy genre taking classic tropes and cliches and putting a microscope on them to show the grim reality. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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New episode! We continue our annual Halloween tradition by doing a special themed episode. With the release of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, we look at 3 versions of the classic horror film! Click to listen!
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316: Old, Young and New Frankenstein
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October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
New episode! We continue our annual Halloween tradition by doing a special themed episode. With the release of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, we look at 3 versions of the classic horror film! Click to listen!
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New review! The Ice Tower is a French film about a young orphan who hides on a film set where she befriends the star of the film within a film discovering how much they have in common. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: The Ice Tower from Genre Gems 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
Final Rating: 3/5 Where do our dreams end and reality begin? The Ice Tower from French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic is a haunting fairy tale-esque journey of a young woman’s life beyond her sheltere...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New review! The Ice Tower is a French film about a young orphan who hides on a film set where she befriends the star of the film within a film discovering how much they have in common. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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This movie is so goddamn good. Go watch this immediately, especially if you like Pontypool.
Thinking about "The Vast of Night" again and how this movie still doesn't have a proper physical release. An entrancing and beautiful movie marred by being stuck in streaming compression jail.
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This movie is so goddamn good. Go watch this immediately, especially if you like Pontypool.
New review! Blue Moon tells the story of Lorenz Hart the former writer partner of Richard Rodgers on the night that the first Rodgers and Hammerstein show Oklahoma opened. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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Reviews: Blue Moon - Contra Zoom Pod
Blue Moon is the story of Lorenz Hart, the former writing partner of Richard Rodgers on the night that his former partner opens the show Oklahoma!
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October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New review! Blue Moon tells the story of Lorenz Hart the former writer partner of Richard Rodgers on the night that the first Rodgers and Hammerstein show Oklahoma opened. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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New review! In The Piano Accident a young woman is famous for her inability to feel pain, so she makes lucrative viral stunt videos. When one stunt goes awry she gets blackmailed to cover up the secret. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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Reviews: The Piano Accident from Genre Gems 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
Final Rating: 3.5/5 The Piano Accident, a dark comedy from director Quentin Dupieux, explores the world of celebrity, fortune and the internet age. Magalie (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a young woman, born...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New review! In The Piano Accident a young woman is famous for her inability to feel pain, so she makes lucrative viral stunt videos. When one stunt goes awry she gets blackmailed to cover up the secret. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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Latest for @contrazoompod.bsky.social Sirat from the Genre Gems Festival. #Sirat #FilmSky
Latest for @contrazoompod.bsky.social Sirat from the Genre Gems Festival. #Sirat #FilmSky
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October 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Latest for @contrazoompod.bsky.social Sirat from the Genre Gems Festival. #Sirat #FilmSky
Latest for @contrazoompod.bsky.social Sirat from the Genre Gems Festival. #Sirat #FilmSky
New review! In Sirât a father and his son look for his adult daughter amongst the desert rave communities in Morocco in an odyssey of loss and techno. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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Reviews: Sirât from Genre Gems 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
In Sirât, a man and his son search the Moroccan desert through nomadic raves in order to find his missing daughter in this sprawling film.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New review! In Sirât a father and his son look for his adult daughter amongst the desert rave communities in Morocco in an odyssey of loss and techno. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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New episode! With the conclusion of the Vancouver International Film Festival we recap some of our favourite movies including Blue Moon, A Welcome Distraction, Blue Heron and more! Click to listen.
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315: 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival
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October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New episode! With the conclusion of the Vancouver International Film Festival we recap some of our favourite movies including Blue Moon, A Welcome Distraction, Blue Heron and more! Click to listen.
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New review! Good News is a Korean drama about the real life hijacking of a plane in 1970 by Japanese communists. The film takes several liberties to help aid in the dramatic tension. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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Reviews: Good News - Contra Zoom Pod
Good News is the dramatization of a 1970 hijacking of a Korean plane by Japanese communists. The film is a quasi fictionalized adaptation.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New review! Good News is a Korean drama about the real life hijacking of a plane in 1970 by Japanese communists. The film takes several liberties to help aid in the dramatic tension. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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