Reviews: SATURDAY NIGHT from TIFF 2024 September 8, 2024 Final Rating: 4.5/5 Saturday Night Live is an institution of television. It has been on the air for almost fifty years, aired almost 1000… Continue Reading
Reviews: Seeds from TIFF 2024 September 7, 2024 Final Rating: 3/5 Starring, written, and directed by Canadian indigenous actor Kaniehtiio Horn, Seeds is a promising, if messy, debut. Horn plays Ziggy, a… Continue Reading
285: 2024 TIFF Preview August 27, 2024 The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5-15th and we will be in town covering the fest. Here we preview our most anticipated… 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
284: 2024 Fantasia Film Festival August 20, 2024 The 2024 edition of the Fantasia Film Festival just concluded and we discuss some of the films we watched, including Cuckoo, The Silent Planet,… Continue Reading
Reviews: Darkest Miriam from Fantasia Festival 2024 August 16, 2024 Final Rating: 3/5 Working in a quiet downtown branch of the Toronto Public Library, librarian Miriam (Britt Lower) finds purpose observing the regulars and… Continue Reading
283: A24 Retrospective – Mississippi Grind August 13, 2024 We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2015’s Mississippi Grind directed by… Continue Reading
Reviews: Electrophilia from Fantasia Festival 2024 August 2, 2024 Final Rating: 3.5/5 What happens when you survive a traumatic unexpected event? Do you gather yourself together and overcome any new fears you might… Continue Reading
Reviews: Cuckoo from Fantasia Festival 2024 July 31, 2024 Final Rating: 4/5 A famous aspect of the cuckoo bird is brood parasitism, which is found in all members of the Cuculidae family. Brood… Continue Reading
Reviews: Infinite Summer from Fantasia Festival 2024 July 30, 2024 Final Rating: 2.5/5 At times, Miguel Llansó’s Infinite Summer is a character study, a conspiracy thriller, a wistful teen comedy, and a buddy cop… Continue Reading