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Author: Dakota Arsenault

Dakota Arsenault is the creator, host, producer and editor of Contra Zoom Pod. His favourite movies include The Life Aquatic, 12 Angry Men, Rafifi and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. He first started the podcast back in April of 2015 and has produced well over 300 episodes. Dakota is also a co-founder of the Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association.

Reviews: Tautuktavuk (What We See) from TIFF 2023

September 11, 2023

Tautuktavuk (What We See), plays out like an Italian Neorealist film, something that is akin to the works of Vittorio de Sica and Roberto Rossellini. The film is set up as two elder sisters, Saqpinak played by one half of the directors Carol Kunnuk, and Uyarak played by the other director Lucy Tulugarjuk, separated in different parts of the country during the initial wave of COVID-19 lockdowns. 

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The Boy and the Heron

251: 2023 TIFF Preview

September 5, 2023

The 2023 edition of the ⁠Toronto International Film Festival⁠ will run from September 7-17th and we are here to preview our picks for the movies we are most excited about.

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Slow West

250: A24 Retrospective – Slow West

August 29, 2023

On this episode we are looking at 2015’s ⁠Slow West⁠ directed by John Maclean. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as Jay a teenager from Scotland who comes to the wild west in search of the young girl he’s in love with. Michael Fassbender plays Silas, a mysterious man who agrees to help guide Jay across the plains with questionable motivations.

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Viva Las Vegas

249: The Films of Elvis Presley

August 22, 2023

On August 16th 1977 Elvis Presley died, marking the 46th anniversary of his untimely passing. Currently The Criterion Channel has a 6 movie collection available to stream. We discuss three of the films.

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Guest Appearance: The Criterion Shelf – AI

August 18, 2023

Every month Bil Antoniou curates an article picking a collection from The Criterion Channel and sorts its contents into categories – Must-See, Worthy, For…

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Talk To Me

248: 2023 Fantasia Film Festival Wrap Up

August 15, 2023

For the third year in a row we are covering Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, which celebrates the best in horror and genre cinema with an emphasis on international movies.

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Adams Family

247: Fantasia Fest Interviews – Satan Wants You and Where The Devil Roams Directors

August 8, 2023

Fantasia Festival is still going on, but we had the chance to interview two sets of directors who had their films screening at this years fest!

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The Punisher

Guest Appearance: Spoiled Rotten Episode 255 – Revisiting The Punisher

August 7, 2023

Dakota Arsenault (Contra Zoom Pod) joins to revisit Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Punisher!

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Sometimes I Think About Dying

Reviews: Sometimes I Think About Dying From Fantasia Festival 2023

August 7, 2023

Sometimes I Think About Dying, starring Daisy Ridley, is a small film that will leave a big impression on viewers and stick in their minds the rest of the year.

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river Junta Yamagouchi

Reviews: river From Fantasia Festival 2023

August 3, 2023

Time travel movies are a tricky beast. That hasn’t stopped Japanese filmmaker Junta Yamaguchi, whose first film Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes completely reinvigorated the genre.

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