Skip to content

Contra Zoom Pod

Where we go back and forth about film.

  • Contra Zoom Pod
  • All Posts
  • Where To Listen
  • Contributors
  • Friends of CZP
  • Social Media
  • History
  • Contact Us

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.

205: A24 Retrospective – Obvious Child

August 16, 2022

We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2014’s Obvious Child directed by…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Compulsus from Fantasia Festival 2022

August 9, 2022

Final Rating: 3/5 Compulsus takes the rage that many women have towards abusers, the patriarchy and institutions that protect aggressors and attacks it with…

Continue Reading

204: Fantasia Festival 2022 Wrap Up

August 8, 2022

With Montreal’s Fantasia Festival wrapping up, we look back at one of the premiere genre film festivals. We discuss several films we saw including…

Continue Reading

203: Fantasia Fest Interviews – Polaris and Dark Nature Directors

August 2, 2022

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

Continue Reading

Reviews: Topology of Sirens from Fantasia Festival 2022

July 25, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 Topology of Sirens is an experimental film about experimental music. It is a cross between slow burning transcendental cinema and a…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Baby Assassins from Fantasia Festival 2022

July 22, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 With the release of John Wick back in 2014, there has been an interest in building worlds around the mysterious lives…

Continue Reading

201: 2022 Toronto Japanese Film Festival

July 21, 2022

We return with coverage of this year’s Toronto Japanese Film Festival which showcases the finest Japanese films that are often getting either Canadian or…

Continue Reading

Guest Appearance: Awesome Friday Episode 62 – Our Favourite Marvel Movies, featuring over a dozen of our friends

July 20, 2022

Both Dakota and Rachel sent in a clip of them talking about their favourite Marvel/MCU films to help celebrate Awesome Friday’s one year anniversary!

Continue Reading

Reviews: Polaris from Fantasia Festival 2022

July 15, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 This year’s selection for the opening night film at the 2022 edition of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival is the Canadian movie Polaris….

Continue Reading

200: Movies That Made Us

July 12, 2022

For our special 200th episode Dakota and Rachel decided to look back at films that made them the movie watchers they are today. From…

Continue Reading

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 22 23 24 … 50 Next

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Reviews: Nuremberg
  • 317: 2025 New York Film Festival Diaries
  • Reviews: The Things You Kill
  • Reviews: Reflection in a Dead Diamond from TADFF 2025
  • 316: Old, Young and New Frankenstein
Copyright Contra Zoom Pod. All rights reserved. | Theme by SuperbThemes