Contra Zoom

On this episode the guys start talk about the forth edition of their Best Picture Winners revisits. The years are 1968-1977 (the 40th-49th Oscar winners).

Our photographer Katrina Lat joins us to talk about her favourite movies.

– Down With Love

– Singin’ In The Rain

– Big Fish

Here are the bottom five pictures in our rankings. Dakota’s ratings come first and Andreas’ second next to each film.

10. Oliver! 6/10 5/10

9. Rocky 6.5/10 6/10

8. Patton 7.5/10 8/10

7. The French Connection 8/10 9/10

6. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest 8.3/10 8/10

Music from this week’s episode comes from Silas Fiction an indie pop duo from Indiana. We had premiered their song Bad Company back in July. Their newest album Pairs, which comes out on September 27th with a pay what you can formula from Bandcamp where all the proceeds are going to the fantastic organization Teach for America. You can also find the album on Spotify, Tidal and iTunes and where every else you get your music from.

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Even though Dakota Arsenault and Andreas Babiolakis are currently prepping for their proper return to Contra Zoom, it is only fitting for them to have a tribute to one of the greatest comedic actors ever in Gene Wilder. The guys talk about their favourite Wilder movies, moments and what made him so special. 

Enjoy some great clips from some of his movies.

– Puttin’ On the Ritz from Young Frankenstein

– The Waco Kid introduction from Blazing Saddles

– Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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Dakota Arsenault and Andreas Babiolakis review the new film X-Men: Apocalypse. In the end the guys think the film is good, but not great and nowhere near the super negative reviews some critics have been giving it.

– Andreas spoke with Canadian actress Carolina Bartczak who plays Magneto’s wife, Magda, in the new summer blockbuster film X-Men: Apocalypse. Carolina talks about meeting Jennifer Lawrence for the first time and what a great actor Michael Fassbender is work with.

– Dakota’s old acting teacher, John Bourgeois at Humber College has a small part in the movie as a General in the war room.

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This is the third year in a row that Live in Limbo has attended the Toronto Screenwriting Conference and the second year that Contra Zoom has done a pod and interviews on the great weekend. Here you can listen to last year’s episode, which features interviews with David S Goyer and Mara Brock Akil.

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This is Part Two of our TSC coverage at Contra Zoom. On Part One there were interviews with Glen Mazzara and Stephen Falk.

Make sure you read the recap of the weekend, Day 1 done by Andreas Babiolakis and Day 2 done by our special guest Nathaniel Roizen.

Andreas got the chance to interview two of the amazing speakers in this episode.

– Emily Andras is the creator of Wynonna Earp, a producer and writer for both Lost Girl and Killjoys.

– Moira Walley-Beckett was an Executive Producer and writer for Breaking Bad and Creator of Flesh and Bone.

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This is the third year in a row that Live in Limbo has attended the Toronto Screenwriting Conference and the second year that Contra Zoom has done a pod and interviews on the great weekend. Here you can listen to last year’s episode, which features interviews with David S Goyer and Mara Brock Akil. 

Make sure you read the recap of the weekend, Day 1 done by Andreas Babiolakis and Day 2 done by our special guest Nathaniel Roizen. 

Andreas got the chance to interview two of the amazing speakers in this episode. 

– Glen Mazzara was the show runner of The Walking Dead for several seasons starting with season 2; he also is the show runner and creator of Damien. 

– Stephen Falk is the creator of You’re the Worst and also wrote for Weeds and produces Orange is the New Black 

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This week Dakota Arsenault is joined by a special guest in Mehek Seyid to talk about some of the films we are most excited to see.

April

– Sing Street

May

– Captain America: Civil War

– The Angry Birds Movie

– X-Men: Apocalypse

– The Lobster

– The Nice Guys (Redband)

June

– Me Before You

– The Conjuring 2

– Finding Dory

– Independence Day: Resurgence

– Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Redband)

– Swiss Army Man

July

– The BFG

– Ghostbusters

– Jason Bourne

– Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Redband)

– The Infiltrator

August

– The Founder

– Suicide Squad

– War Dogs

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On this episode the guys start talk about the forth edition of their Best Picture Winners revisits. The years are 1958-1967 (the 30th– 39th Oscar winners). You can find Edition 3 HERE and Part 2 of it HERE. 

Katrina Wong-Shue joined us on this episode and talked about her favourite films of all time.

– A Nightmare Before Christmas

– A Goofy Movie

– The Lion King

– Beauty and the Beast

Make sure you follow Katrina on Twitter! 

10. Gigi 4/10 

9. Tom Jones 5.5/10

8. Ben-Hur 7/10

7. The Sound of Music 7.2/10

6. A Man for All Seasons 7.5/10

Music this week is from Brooklyn Doran a Toronto based singer and song writer who happened to write a great song about the street I live on! 

Songs featured on this episode are:

– There’s a Light On (Kitchen Song)

– Look Away

Dakota photographed and wrote about Brooklyn when she played at The Cameron House in early April.

You can purchase Brooklyn’s latest album on her website HERE where you can name your own price.

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While it is March, the guys finally get around to discussing their ten favourite films of last year. Mehek Seyid who is just as passionate about movies as Dakota and Andreas joins them. Andreas moderates this episode as he had already made a post back in December talking about his twenty favourite films of last year. Also if you missed it, Andreas did a post about the twenty best performances too!

Andreas’ Top 10 films of 2015

10. Ex Machina

9. Love and Mercy

8. Room

7. Mad Max: Fury Road

6. Carol

5. Inside Out

4. Son of Saul

3. The Revenant

2. Spotlight

1. Anomalisa

Dakota’s Top 10

10. Creed

9. Mustang

8. Carol

7. Brooklyn

6. A War

5. Inside Out

4. Spotlight

3. What We Do in the Shadows

2. Ex Machina

1. The Big Short

Mehek Seyid’s Top 10

10. Jurassic World/Star Wars: The Force Awakens

9. Dope

8. Room

7. The Martian

6. Mustang

5. Angry Indian Goddesses

4. Ex Machina

3. The Lobster

2. Sicario

1. Spotlight

Make sure you check out Mehek’s personal blog What the Mehek and follow her on Twitter @WhatTheMehek

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This week Dakota and Andreas go over their thoughts on the 88th Oscars. From Chris Rock’s hosting to the nights big winners and losers, the guys cover it all.

On the last episode Dakota, Andreas and special guest Dasha Peregedouva made their bold predictions on who they think would win. See below for how their guesses turned out.

Check out Andreas’ recap of the ceremony and the big winners.

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In part 2 of our third annual Oscar Extravaganza Dakota and Andreas are joined yet again by Dasha Peregoudova to lend her expert opinion.

Our expert picks are at the bottom, look for Andreas’ post Oscar reaction’s early next week and a pod discussing the big winners and losers coming soon!

The talked about the following categories

Follow @liveinlimbo during Oscar night for reactions and jokes from both of the guys.

You can follow Dasha on Twitter @dash.pere

Check out the very funny game Leo’s Red Carpet Rampage and watch him get snubbed yet again!

Let us know who you think will win big at the Oscars this year!

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