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: Jeff Bulmer

Jeff Bulmer is the co-host and co-creator of Classic Movies Live! He was also formerly a film critic for the Kelowna Daily Courier. Jeff’s favourite movies include Redline, Spider-Man 2, and Requiem for a Dream.

Reviews: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

January 30, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In the classic Japanese fairytale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” a bamboo cutter finds a tiny baby girl in a…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Kokuho from TIFF 2025

December 30, 2025

Final Rating: 4.5/5 In Japanese Kabuki theatre, women are traditionally forbidden from performing. In their place are “onnagata,” men who specialize in playing female…

Continue Reading

Reviews: The Voice of Hind Rajab

December 29, 2025

On January 29, 2024, Hind Rami Iyad Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, called the Palestinian Red Crescent. Rajab was fleeing Gaza City with her…

Continue Reading

Reviews: HIM – Physical Release

November 28, 2025

HIM, directed by Justin Tipping, is a occult football film where a rookie quarterback must learn more than just the playbook from the veteran GOAT.

Continue Reading

Reviews: Reflection in a Dead Diamond from TADFF 2025

October 29, 2025

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a surreal recontexulizes the spy genre by questioning the escapist fantasy nature they so often present.

Continue Reading

Reviews: Blue Moon

October 24, 2025

Blue Moon is the story of Lorenz Hart, the former writing partner of Richard Rodgers on the night that his former partner opens the show Oklahoma!

Continue Reading

Reviews: Good News

October 20, 2025

Good News is the dramatization of a 1970 hijacking of a Korean plane by Japanese communists. The film is a quasi fictionalized adaptation.

Continue Reading

Reviews: Kiss of the Spider Woman

October 17, 2025

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a remake of a musical where two men sharing a prison cell and one of them tells the story of his favourite film.

Continue Reading

Blog: Toronto After Dark Film Festival Preview

October 13, 2025

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which plays the best in horror, thriller and sci-fi films begins and we preview 4 films at the festival.

Continue Reading

Reviews: Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitara) from TIFF 2025

October 10, 2025

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Uiksaringitara, or Wrong Husband, is a gorgeous Inuit epic depicting both an intimate romance between two lovers, and a grander supernatural…

Continue Reading

Posts pagination

1 2 … 10 Next

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Reviews: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
  • 322: Paying For It Interview with Sook-Yin Lee
  • Reviews: Paying For It
  • 321: 2026 Oscar Nomination Reactions
  • Reviews: Mother of Flies
Copyright Contra Zoom Pod. All rights reserved. | Theme by SuperbThemes