286: 2024 Toronto International Film Festival September 24, 2024 With TIFF now behind us, it is time to discuss some of our favourite films that played, the award winners and what comes next for the People’s Choice selection. Continue Reading
Blog: 2024 Toronto International Film Festival Preview August 23, 2024 The 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is almost upon us. The fest has been a staple of Contra Zoom going back… Continue Reading
Blog: Toronto International Film Festival 2022 Preview August 28, 2022 With the Toronto International Film Festival about to begin, Dakota and Rachel look at the movies that we are most excited about seeing. You… Continue Reading
Blog: Vancouver International Film Festival 2022 Preview September 22, 2022 With TIFF now in the books, it is time for us to turn our attention to Canada’s other massive film fest and that is… Continue Reading
201: 2022 Toronto Japanese Film Festival July 21, 2022 We return with coverage of this year’s Toronto Japanese Film Festival which showcases the finest Japanese films that are often getting either Canadian or… Continue Reading
Blog: Best Canadian Films of 2021 January 2, 2022 As a Canadian film critic I feel like I really need to put a concerted effort into watching Canadian made films. With the recent… Continue Reading
Blog: Fantasia Festival 2021 Preview July 28, 2021 This year is the 25th anniversary of Fantasia Festival, the world’s premiere “genre” film festival located in Montreal. The likes of Quinten Tarantino and… Continue Reading
86: TIFF Interviews: Short Film Director and Heartland Film President September 10, 2019 On this special episode of Contra Zoom, we have two interviews in this packed episode. First off I speak with Carol Nguyen, a Toronto… Continue Reading
Blog: A Collection of TIFF Reviews October 7, 2024 The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up a few weeks ago, and we had plenty of excellent coverage. This included reviews of the People’s Choice, Midnight Madness, Best Canadian Discovery winners and much more! Continue Reading
252: 2023 TIFF Wrap Up September 19, 2023 We wrap up this year’s Toronto International Film Festival by talking about the big hits and misses, our favourite films and the award winners. Joining the show to help us break it all down is Jeff Bulmer, one half of the Classic Movies. Jeff also contributed some festival movie reviews to Contra Zoom. Continue Reading
