By Marie-Renee Goulet The season is upon us, and my team suggested we pick our favourite Christmas movie and go through why it was so meaningful to us. Like every other time this situation comes up, I smiled and nodded and stayed silent. How do I tell them? Should I tell them? I don’t have…
By Marie-Renee Goulet I never much cared for chick flicks. Romantic movies are pernicious. Almost all present an utterly unrealistic set of circumstances that create unattainable expectations by the consumers. The large majority of these movies unfold in a way that would never in a million years happen in real life. However, I sometimes indulge…
By Marie-Renee Goulet (****) Streaming on Crave “How much have you paid for your Facebook account?” If you use a service, and it is free, you are the product. Monica Lewinsky was “patient zero” for online harassment. Imagine being the first-ever person that the entire world could freely harass, call names and be completely defenseless…
By Marie-Renee Goulet I started this series without realizing it with Contagion (2011) a few months ago. Unfortunately for us, the headlines all seem like the prequel to dystopian movies. THE BILLIONAIRES Billionaires are testing ways to get off Earth while our leaders are mismanaging a pandemic and other issues like drunks trying to pin the…
By Marie- Renee Goulet (*) Why? The sudden loss of Anthony Bourdain by suicide in June 2018 left us all gutted and shocked. Bourdain was a tall, charismatic, and incredibly candid former chef with our dream career. But depression can be debilitating. He was a brilliant writer who did not leave a note. He was…
By Marie-Renee Goulet Movies and music were always a source of joy, adventure and escape. However, the world being what it was from 2016 to June of last year, I completely stopped watching movies, and even listen to music. I had news channels on in the background for every waking hour, as if life depended on it. A year ago this…
By Marie-Renee Goulet Available on Prime “It’s the one constant in life. If you build something worth having, someone’s gonna try and take it.” – John Dutton We see a cloudy blue sky and slowly, a hand gets into the frame. We hear a horse in distress and gradually, the images make sense. John Dutton (Kevin…
By Marie-Renee Goulet Something different to present to you today. I fell in love with Alberta a long time ago. As movie fans, anyone who has seen Legends of Fall (1994), Open Range (2003) or Brokeback Mountain (2005) can see why. When I drive west on Highway 1, my heart still swells when I come out…
By Marie-Renee Goulet (****) Available on Crave (HBO) How does Aaron Sorkin do it? The first time I had this thought was watching the first four seasons of The West Wing (1999-2003) and thinking: “how can this one man write like this week after week?”. This was the equivalent of writing 11 feature films a…
By Marie-Renee Goulet Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other For a few years now I’ve had to resort to audiobooks. My eyesight started to go, and thanks to years of using a smart phone, I have the attention span of a fly. I can still listen for hours, though. Once in…