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225: Oscars 2023 - Top Fabelmans of Inisherin
We continue our yearly tradition of breaking down the Best Picture nominees and the odds they have to win each of their categories. On the first episode of the series we talk about The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick. We label e
224: A24 Retrospective - A Most Violent Year
We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24's films. On this episode we are looking at 2014's A Most Violent Year directed by J.C. Chandor. The film stars Oscar Isaac as a man in 1981 New Jersey who is on the precipice of controlling a
223: 2023 Oscar Nomination Reactions
With the Oscar nominations announced just yesterday, Rachel and Dakota react to who is up for the industries highest honours. We discuss the lack of surprises and domination of the same ten films in just about every category, early favourites and more.&nb
Bonus Episode: AODR Festival Interview with Benjamin Belloir of Beautiful Stranger
On this bonus episode, I am sharing my interview with Benjamin Belloir, director of the new film Beautiful Stranger for the Academy of Death Racers Festival. Beautiful Stranger is a queer short about a man who experiences a sudden break up and decides to
222: Top Stories From 2022
We are back from our holiday break and it's time to start looking back on the year 2022! We discuss some of the biggest news stories that dominated the film world. We look at how horror movies were dominating the box office (Scream 5, X, Pearl, Men) and s
221: The Letterboxd Game
It's our last show of 2022! Last year we decided to have some fun by playing a fun little game, you can check out 177: This or That to see how Rachel tortured Dakota into Sophie's Choicing his movie opinions. Rachel is back with another fun game, but to f
220: Contra Zoom Pod's Greatest Films of all Time
It's finally here! With the release of the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound Great Films of all Time poll came out on December 1st, and the discourse has been nonstop since then. Everyone has put out their thoughts and opinions and we decided to we
219: A24 Retrospective - The Captive
We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24's films. On this episode we are looking at 2014's The Captive directed by Atom Egoyan. The film stars Ryan Reynolds who even eight years after his daughter was kidnapped he still maintains hop
218: 80 Years of Casablanca
Back on November 26th 1942 the movie world was changed with the release of the Michael Curtiz directed Casablanca. The film appears on lists such as the IMDb Top 250, the Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Features, AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies and the 2012 Sight
217: A24 Retrospective - Revenge of the Green Dragons
We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24's films. On this episode we are looking at 2014's Revenge of the Green Dragons directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo. The film stars Justin Chon and Kevin Wu as two young men in a Chinese gang