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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.

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…

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Plan 75 TJFF

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.

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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.

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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…

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Cut Bank

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.

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238: Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

May 30, 2023

Now that all the limited releases of 2022 have come out and we are past the winter studio dumping grounds, it is time to…

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237: A24 Retrospective – While We’re Young

May 23, 2023

We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2015’s While We’re Young directed by Noah Baumbach.

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Dr. No

236: Dr. No at 60 Years

May 16, 2023

The first James Bond film ⁠Dr. No⁠ was first seen outside the United Kingdom in May of 1963. We celebrate the 60th anniversary of the film franchise by revisiting the seminal action movie.

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Hot Docs Film Festival

235: Hot Docs 2023

May 9, 2023

The ⁠Hot Docs⁠ festival that celebrates the best new documentaries just concluded in Toronto. We discuss 6 films seen with guest Courtney Small.

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