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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: Drunk Bus for Cinefest Sudbury 2021

September 20, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 Drunk Bus is a film about a young conflicted man named Michael played by Charlie Tahan, best known as Wyatt Langmore…

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165: Fantasia Fest Interviews – The Righteous and Indemnity Directors

September 14, 2021

We’re back with even more great Fantasia Festival coverage. Both Rachel and Dakota did solo interviews with directors who had their films screened at…

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Reviews: The Middle Man for TIFF 2021

September 12, 2021

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Norwegian writer and director Bent Hamer, brings his Nordic sensibilities to this dark “comedy”. I put comedy in quotations because while…

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Reviews: Kicking Blood for TIFF 2021

September 11, 2021

Final Rating: 1/5 Much like the title suggests, the act of kicking something means to do without. Here we get two sides of addiction…

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Guest Appearance: I Hope You Suffer Episode 159: أنياب (Anyab aka Fangs) (1981) with Dakota Arsenault from Contra Zoom Podcast

September 9, 2021

I finally got the chance to join Nathan, Katey and Kit on I Hope You Suffer after being a fan of theirs for a…

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164: TIFF 2021 Preview

September 7, 2021

With this year’s Toronto International Film Festival just around the corner, we are here to share our most anticipated films that are playing during…

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Guest Appearance: Please Watch This EP 100 – 100th Episode Bonanza

September 5, 2021

For long time listeners of this show, you know my friendship with Sam Blakeley and Hugh Dempsey has gone on for a while now….

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Blog: Best Films of 2014

September 2, 2021

I am totally stealing content ideas from Filmspotting, this shouldn’t surprise anyone, because the original inspiration for even creating Contra Zoom was their podcast….

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163: Fantasia Festival 2021

August 31, 2021

We review the films that we watched during the 2021 edition of Fantasia, the yearly Montreal film festival that specializes in genre movies (horror,…

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162: Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2021

August 24, 2021

Vancouver’s second largest film festival and the largest queer arts festival in Western Canada had their 33rd annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival, celebrating the…

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