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…
By Marie-Renee Goulet I can’t imagine a more daunting task for an actor than to portray someone as well known as Jim Morrison. He is surrounded by myths he created himself; he lied about his life before joining The Doors declaring his parents dead (they weren’t) and two siblings nonexistent. Morrison acted a lot and…
By Marie-Renee Goulet (***) Sunny Daze is a redemption story about a formerly famous musician who was given talent, success, and love in spades but whose demons are slowly but surely taking all away. It is about friendship, family, loss and our individual need for accountability and responsibility. Sunny’s (Jason Wiles) days are reduced to heavy…
By Marie-Renee Goulet (***) Rarely can we study a global disaster movie for its accuracy by having the “opportunity” to live through the said global disaster. Contagion (2011) is a movie about the spread of a deadly virus that rapidly becomes a worldwide pandemic. I revisited the film back in March during the first shut…