Reviews: Reflection in a Dead Diamond from TADFF 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a surreal recontexulizes the spy genre by questioning the escapist fantasy nature they so often present.
New review! Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a deconstruction of the spy genre taking classic tropes and cliches and putting a microscope on them to show the grim reality. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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29.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
316: Old, Young and New Frankenstein
New episode! We continue our annual Halloween tradition by doing a special themed episode. With the release of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, we look at 3 versions of the classic horror film! Click to listen!
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28.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This movie is so goddamn good. Go watch this immediately, especially if you like Pontypool.
27.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 412 🔁 50 💬 22 📌 4
Reviews: Blue Moon - Contra Zoom Pod
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!
New review! Blue Moon tells the story of Lorenz Hart the former writer partner of Richard Rodgers on the night that the first Rodgers and Hammerstein show Oklahoma opened. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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24.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Latest for @contrazoompod.bsky.social Sirat from the Genre Gems Festival. #Sirat #FilmSky
22.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: Sirât from Genre Gems 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
In Sirât, a man and his son search the Moroccan desert through nomadic raves in order to find his missing daughter in this sprawling film.
New review! In Sirât a father and his son look for his adult daughter amongst the desert rave communities in Morocco in an odyssey of loss and techno. Click to read Brodie Cotnam’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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22.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
315: 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival
New episode! With the conclusion of the Vancouver International Film Festival we recap some of our favourite movies including Blue Moon, A Welcome Distraction, Blue Heron and more! Click to listen.
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21.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: Good News - Contra Zoom Pod
Good News is the dramatization of a 1970 hijacking of a Korean plane by Japanese communists. The film is a quasi fictionalized adaptation.
New review! Good News is a Korean drama about the real life hijacking of a plane in 1970 by Japanese communists. The film takes several liberties to help aid in the dramatic tension. Click to read Jeff Bulmer’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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20.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: Kiss of the Spider Woman - Contra Zoom Pod
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.
New review! Kiss of the Spider Woman is a remake of the classic musical about two men sharing a prison cell in Argentina and the use of retellings of fake classic Hollywood films. Click to read Jeff Bulmer's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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17.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: Blue Moon from VIFF 2025 - Contra Zoom Pod
Blue Moon is the 2nd film of 2025 from Richard Linklater. Here he tells the story of Lorenz Hart, the one time partner of famed composer Richard Rodgers.
New review! Blue Moon is the second film of the year from director Richard Linklater. Ethan Hawke stars as famed lyricist Lorenz Hart is this deeply funny and tragic movie that takes place over one evening. Click to read Dakota Arsenault's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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16.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
314: TIFF Interview with Zacharias Kunuk
New episode! Jeff Bulmer had the chance to sit down with legendary Inuktitut filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, director of Wrong Husband that played at this years TIFF. Click to listen to their conversation!
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14.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blog: Toronto After Dark Film Festival Preview - Contra Zoom Pod
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.
New blog post! The Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which screens the best in new horror, thriller and sci-fi runs from October 15-19th. Jeff Bulmer previews 4 of the films playing including Queens of the Dead, Primate and more! Click to read.
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13.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: Ju Dou – Restoration - Contra Zoom Pod
Director Zhang Yumou's seminal 1990 film Ju Dou starring Gong Li as an abused wife who starts a relationship with her older husbands nephew, has received a restoration.
New review! Ju Dou is a 1990 film from Zhang Yimou that has received a restoration and has been re-released. It is a love triangle story about a young woman who falls in love with the nephew of her abusive husband in rural China. Read Pedro Lima’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
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06.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just caught the absolute bonkers Deathstalker from Canadian special effects wiz Steven Kostanski. It’s like if the Monty Python decided to make their version of Lord of the Rings.
06.10.2025 03:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Started out my Vancouver International Film Festival with Christian Petzold’s latest film Miroirs No 3. It’s a quiet discontenting film about overcoming grief and trauma.
05.10.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: The Baltimorons - Contra Zoom Pod
The Baltimorons is a new dramedy about one man who gets emergency dental surgery on Christmas Eve as he comes to terms with the highs and lows of his life.
New review! The Baltimorons is a solo directing effort from Jay Duplass of mumblecore fame. Here is a dramedy about a man needing emergency dental surgery on Christmas Eve and the hijinks that ensue. Click to read Elysia Brenner's ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review.
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30.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Secured my tickets to see One Battle After Another in IMAX. It was a tough decision between 70mm or IMAX hut I think I made the right choice.
26.09.2025 17:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews: 2025 TIFF Midnight Madness Round Up Part 1 - Contra Zoom Pod
Midnight Madness plays the best in genre films during the Toronto International Film Festival. We saw almost every film in the program and wrote about them.
New reviews! Dakota Arsenault and Jeff Bulmer saw almost every Midnight Madness movie at TIFF, here is part one of their program round up covering Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie, Obsession and The Furious. Click to read!
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26.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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