Contra Zoom Pod

What a boring uneventful Oscar night. I'm sure there will be nothing to talk about as Bil Antoniou returns to the show after last appearing on episode 157: Best Films Through the Decades. We recap the 94th Academy Awards where CODA won Best Picture, Jane Campion won Best Director, Drive My Car won Best International Film and oh yeah Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock on live television. We discuss the what was supposed to be truncated broadcast that instead was longer than last years, how the trio of hosts did, the odd retrospectives and of course the actual winners.

Read Bil's That Criterion Shelf article about Pre-Code Cinema (co-written by Rachel!). Visit My Old Addiction and follow Bil on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Check out Bad Gay Movies on Spotify wherever you listen to podcasts.

Check out Rachel's review of Wildhood. Follow Rachel on Twitter and check out her website for more great reviews.

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While Rachel got to have her fun covering TIFF, those of us on the west coast got to enjoy the Vancouver International Film Festival. Joining the show is Matthew Simpson, one half of the Awesome Friday Podcast, who was last heard on episode 211: A24 Retrospective - The Rover. We're trying something new, both Contra Zoom and Awesome Friday are releasing the same episode, so you can listen to the show either on this feed or theirs! We each rank our top five films seen during the VIFF.

Matthew's Top 5: Until Branches Bend, Triangle of Sadness, Riceboy Sleeps, The Grizzlie Truth, I Like Movies

Dakota's Top 5: Bones of Crows, Triangle of Sadness, Broker, Viking and Brother

Read Dakota's reviews for Bones of Crows, Viking, Brother, The Grizzlie Truth, Black Ice and ROSIE.

Listen to Rachel's interview with Anthony Shim the director of Riceboy Sleeps.

Listen to Awesome Friday review Triangle of Sadness and Viking.

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We are taking a brief sojourn from Oscar talk, to instead look back into our own country of Canada and discuss the best movies from north of the border. We react to the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards, which celebrates the best in film, TV and screen work. On this show we discuss the movie portion of the nominees. Some of the films we go over include Scarborough, Night Raiders, All My Puny Sorrows, Wildhood, The Righteous, Islands, Learn to Swim, Night of the Kings, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy and more! The awards for film will be handed out on April 8th.

Listen to our interview with Mark O'Brien director and star of The Righteous and our interview with director Virginia Abramovich and writer Katherine Andrews Between Waves.

Read Dakota's article of his top Canadian Films of 2021.

Read our Rachel's reviews on Scarborough, The Righteous, Night Raiders, Night of the Kings, Learn to Swim, Islands and Between Waves.

Read Dakota's reviews on All My Puny Sorrows, Wildhood and Kicking Blood.

For a full list of nominees check out the Canadian Screen Awards website.

Read Rachel's review of LOL: Last One Laughing Canada, her interview with Kaia Kater from The Porter, and her contributions to the article The Criterion Shelf: Starring Harry Belafonte.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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After spending the last few episodes looking at the Best Picture contenders and their odds to win, we finally make our big bold predictions for the big ceremony happening March 27th. We go over 21 of the categories (the shorts were omitted) and we stated who we think will win and who we want to win. Joining Rachel and Dakota is Stephanie Prior, who was last heard on episode 162: Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2021. Stay tuned for our next episode wrapping up the show with all our thoughts on the actual winners!

Check out Rachel's interview with Domee Shi, director of Turning Red and her review of the film. Follow Rachel on Twitter and check out her website for more great reviews.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Dakota and Rachel share their picks for their top five movies of the year so far and a few honourable mentions!

Dakota's picks were After Yang, The Batman, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Top Gun: Maverick and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Rachel's picks were Ambulance, Apples, Ashgrove, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Fire of Love.

Read Rachel's contributions to That Shelf's best movies of the year list.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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