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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.
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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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Ex Machina A24 Retrospective

246: A24 Retrospective – Ex Machina

August 1, 2023

We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2015’s ⁠Ex Machina⁠ directed by Alex Garland with special guest Jeremy LaLonde.

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A Disturbance in the Force

Reviews: A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened From Fantasia Festival 2023

July 30, 2023

In what became a lesson in being careful what you wished for, viewers were instead “treated” to the now infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special. What makes it so special is that after a single airing on TV, everyone realized how terrible it was and was never screened again.

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Baby Assassins 2 Babies

Reviews: Baby Assassins 2 Babies from Fantasia Festival 2023

July 29, 2023

At last year’s Fantasia Festival we covered a Japanese action comedy called Baby Assassins, about two girls fresh out of high school who work as hired assassins. This year we get treated to its sequel Baby Assassins 2 Babies at the same festival.

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Where The Devil Roams

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.

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The Day The Earth Stood Still

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.

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