Reviews: Universal Language from TIFF 2024 September 11, 2024 Matthew Rankin’s film Universal Language takes place in modern day Winnipeg, but not the one you know. Canada’s two official languages are French and Persian Continue Reading
Reviews: Young Werther from TIFF 2024 September 10, 2024 Final Rating: 3.5/5 Just in time for the 250th anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s smash-hit novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, José Lourenço’s… Continue Reading
Reviews: Paying For It from TIFF 2024 September 9, 2024 When Chester’s girlfriend informs him she’s falling in love with another man, he’s willing to make an open relationship work. As she neglects Chester, he begins paying for sex. Continue Reading
Reviews: SATURDAY NIGHT from TIFF 2024 September 8, 2024 Final Rating: 4.5/5 Saturday Night Live is an institution of television. It has been on the air for almost fifty years, aired almost 1000… Continue Reading
Reviews: Seeds from TIFF 2024 September 7, 2024 Final Rating: 3/5 Starring, written, and directed by Canadian indigenous actor Kaniehtiio Horn, Seeds is a promising, if messy, debut. Horn plays Ziggy, a… Continue Reading
285: 2024 TIFF Preview August 27, 2024 The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5-15th and we will be in town covering the fest. Here we preview our most anticipated… Continue Reading
Blog: 2024 Toronto International Film Festival Preview August 23, 2024 The 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is almost upon us. The fest has been a staple of Contra Zoom going back… Continue Reading
252: 2023 TIFF Wrap Up September 19, 2023 We wrap up this year’s Toronto International Film Festival by talking about the big hits and misses, our favourite films and the award winners. Joining the show to help us break it all down is Jeff Bulmer, one half of the Classic Movies. Jeff also contributed some festival movie reviews to Contra Zoom. Continue Reading
Reviews: Working Class Goes To Hell from TIFF 2023 September 15, 2023 The new Serbian film Working Class Goes To Hell, directed by Mladen Djordjevic, is billed as a satirical horror film. It is about the ends that class consciousness can go to and to ensure our capitalist overlords stop taking advantage of the common man. Continue Reading
Reviews: Seagrass from TIFF 2023 September 14, 2023 Seagrass is a semi-autobiographical movie from director Meredith Hama-Brown. Judith, a Japanese-Canadian woman (played by Ally Maki), brings her family to group therapy camp so she can work on her strained relationship with her Caucasian husband Steve (Luke Roberts). Continue Reading
