It’s that time of the year when pundits (like me!) recommend the best in entertainment from 2024. These recommendations you will find on few other lists, I guarantee it. Certainly not in Maclean’s or The Globe and Mail, or even The Guardian in the UK.
In Another Ruined Dinner Party, I offer my top three choices and honourable mentions.
To find a short review and sometimes a film trailer, click on the hyperlink.
Have a good holiday season– given what’s going on in the world.
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Streamed Films
Vjeran Tomi– Spiderman of Paris
Honourable Mentions: 1. Layla M 2. Anatomy of a Fall 3. Faithfully Yours 4. Baby Reindeer
Streamed Series
Deutschland 1983, 1986 and 1989
Honourable Mentions: 1. A Nearly Normal Family 2. Baby Fever
Murder and Mayhem
Conviction: the Case of Stephen Lawrence
Honourable Mention: Unforgotten
Documentary Films
How Finland Solved Homelessness
Truly Canadian
Saving Bea (a series to watch)
Two Worlds Colliding (40 min. documentary)
An Ordinary Violence (a novel)
It Should be Easy to Fix (nonfiction book)
A Criminal Affair (a series to watch)
Cynara (a true murder series on GEM)
Books
Honourable Mentions 1. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama 2. There Will be Fire 3. Where Grieving Begins 4. Radioactive Radicals 5. What Comes Echoing Back 6. Study for Obedience
and Holiday reading: my picks for best novels by John Grisham 1. The Judge’s List 2. The Rooster Bar 3. The Boys from Biloxi 4. Rogue Lawyer
Palestine Lives!
Israel-Palestine: 60 years of violence
Featured image at the top: Untitled (Reading) by Henri Masson (Canadian, 1907-1996)
Another ruined dinner party... 