REEL | Top 10 Films of 2024

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) Challengers (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

2) Anora (dir. Sean Baker) *

3) Evil Does Not Exist (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) *

4) His Three Daughters (dir. Azazel Jacobs)

5) Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

6) Dune: Part Two (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

7) A Different Man (dir. Aaron Schimberg) *

8) A Complete Unknown (dir. James Mangold)

9) Dìdi (弟弟, dir. Sean Wang)

10) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (dir. George Miller)

REEL | Timothée Chalamet Walks Hard – 'A Complete Unknown'

"Every deck has two jokers, don't it?"

Searchlight Pictures

America's boyfriend Timothée Chalamet channels a young, pre-Highway 61 Revisited era of Bob Dylan, chronicling the folk singer's rise to fame in the early-'60s New York City set A Complete Unknown, based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by music historian Elijah Wald. Journeyman director James Mangold helms the period musical biopic with a measured verve and mastery of performances filmed in the moment with the actors recorded singing live to camera.

GETAWAY | The Library by The Macallan x Four Seasons x Whistler

Whistler—(November 26, 2024) Late last month, press were invited up to the Four Seasons Resort Whistler for a quick but refreshing day trip to visit the 4-star luxury hotel's many amenities while also checking out the newly reopened The Library by The Macallan, an intimate whisky and cocktail pop-up bar, back for its second year.

REEL | 'September 5' Relives the Munich Massacre x WFF 2024

"They're all gone."

Whistler Film Festival

September 5 dramatizes the horrific 1972 Munich massacre hostage crisis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in West Germany from the perspective of the ABC Sports newsroom's real-time live coverage. Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum tries to set aside political history in order to relive the real-life events raw in the moment from an outside viewpoint.

REEL | Daniel Craig Feels 'Queer' for Longing x WFF 2024

"I want to talk to you without speaking."

Whistler Film Festival

Former James Bond superstar Daniel Craig makes his prestige gay indie film turn for Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino's transfixing screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' mid-century novella, Queer, a 1950s Mexico City-set period romance written in 1952 and published in 1985. It's a heartbreakingly raw portrait of unrequited expat "junkie" love between two men.

REEL | Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders Turn A 'Sharp Corner' x WFF 2024

"I thought this was our dream house."

Whistler Film Festival

Set and shot in Nova Scotia, Sharp Corner, Halifax-based writer/director Jason Buxton's second feature film, is based on the short story of the same name by Winnipeg journalist Russell Wangersky and follows a family in crisis after their move to the suburbs for a gripping existential midlife thriller.

GENRE | Kyle Mooney Relives the Year 2000 – 'Y2K' Glitches Out

"Someone's on the net!"

A24 / VVS Films

What if the year 2000 computer glitch actually happened? That's the premise of former Saturday Night Live cast member Kyle Mooney's directorial debut. His turn-of-the-millennium disaster slasher comedy, appropriately titled Y2K, strikes a strong late-'90s nostalgic chord for middle-aged millennials who grew up with desktop computers, dial-up internet, burned CDs, and the popularity of nu-metal rap rock music.

SCREEN | Saving the 'Watchmen: Chapter II' in Animation

"Exposing this plot results in greater destruction."

Warner Bros. Animation / Paramount Pictures

DC's second part of its animated Watchmen retelling of the densely layered 1986 graphic novel's political themes continues its faithful adaptation. Watchmen: Chapter II furthers its use of superhero storytelling to deconstruct on the nature of humanity, conflict, and war.

SCENE | 'East Van Panto' Takes 'Robin Hood' Back from the Rich

"This is Lululemon Lake now!"

Jason Sakaki / Photo credit | Emily Cooper

Commercial Drive—It's that time of year again. East Van Panto, Theatre Replacement's wackiest annual holiday stage tradition presented by The Cultch returns to the York Theatre for its twelfth edition featuring a very merry band of animal misfits (the "Merry-Thems") in a hyper-localized, joyful musical twist on the outlaw folklore of Robin Hood.