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Reviews: Where the Devil Roams From Fantasia Festival 2023

July 28, 2023

With the release of their 7th feature film, Where The Devil Roams, the Adams Family have returned to Fantasia for the third time and brought their DIY horror aesthetic with them yet again.

245: Make/Remake The Day The Earth Stood Still

July 25, 2023

Make/Remake examines how two films that share the same story. We Look at 1951 and 2008’s The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Titanic The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians

244: The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians

July 18, 2023

A few weeks ago CBC released a poll conducted by them where industry professionals and critics voted to help make a list of ⁠The…

243: Best Films By Language

July 11, 2023

We are naming our 10 favourite films by language. We cover four specific languages, one country, two regions and three wildcards! We name both our picks and runners-up.

Guest Appearance: The Criterion Shelf – LGBTQ+ Favourites

July 4, 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…

242: 2023 Toronto Japanese Film Festival

July 4, 2023

We cover the Toronto Japanese Film Festival and talk about movies we saw. They include ⁠Plan 75⁠, ⁠BL Metamorphosis⁠, ⁠Roleless⁠, and ⁠Father of the Milky Way Railroad⁠.

Tokyo Godfathers Better Know a Contributor

Bonus: Better Know a Contributor – Paulo Bautista

June 27, 2023

We bring you the eighth in our series of bonus episodes, ⁠Better Know a Contributor⁠, where we ask frequent guests of the show 10 Contra Zoom Pod movie questions.

John Wick Chapter 4 Best Movies of 2023 So Far

241: Best Movies of 2023… So Far

June 20, 2023

We’re a little over halfway through 2023, so we decide to look at the best films of the year so far! Our titles are listed alphabetically, so they are not in order of our rankings.

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240: Good Gay Movies

June 13, 2023

It’s June, which means it is Pride Month! ⁠Bad Gay Movies⁠ is one of my favourite podcasts and love hearing Bil Antoniou talk about…

239: A24 Retrospective – Cut Bank

June 7, 2023

We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2015’s ⁠Cut Bank⁠ directed by Matt Shakman. The film stars Liam Hemsworth and Teresa Palmer as a couple who accidentally film the murder of their small town mailman. Once John Malkovich the towns sheriff starts to investigate the crime, things suddenly start not appearing as they seem.