<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Young Plato – Grade school philosophy

Young Plato – Grade school philosophy

Sep 23, 2022

?It?s very hard to be right in philosophy.? I was in college when I had my first class in philosophy. We may think philosophy too hard, esoteric, or maybe even a waste of time. But in the documentary Young Plato, filmmakers Neasa N? Chian?in and Declan McGrath, take...

See How They Run – Whodunnit fun

See How They Run – Whodunnit fun

Sep 15, 2022

?It?s a whodunnit. You?ve seen one, you?ve seen them all.? It may be true that murder mysteries often follow set formulas, but See How They Run, directed by Tom George, manages to be enough different to entertain us, while being very adamant about how typical it is to...

Medieval – The real game of thrones

Medieval – The real game of thrones

Sep 7, 2022

?If you chose to fight, you may die?but for your cause, and that is a good death.? Medieval from director Petr J?kl, is the story of a Czech hero, Jan ?i?ka. The film opens with voiceover saying ?Blood. Tyranny. Intrigue. Power.? That might make you think of Game of...

Hold Me Tight – Being human

Hold Me Tight – Being human

Sep 7, 2022

?It?s human.? What we see in Mathieu Almaric?s film Hold Me Tight is indeed very human. Of course, sometimes being human means suffering through great pain. Perhaps it can also mean moving past that pain. Clarisse (Vicky Krieps) is on a journey away from her family....

Burial – Legacy and death

Burial – Legacy and death

Sep 1, 2022

?Death is nothing if the legacy lives on.? Ben Parker?s Burial builds a tale around the ambiguity about the death of Hitler in 1945. Some have used that idea to imagine his escape to Argentina. This film takes a different perspective. It becomes a battle for the...

Private Desert – Love and Loneliness

Private Desert – Love and Loneliness

Aug 26, 2022

?Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?? Aly Muritiba?s Private Desert is a story of a man?s search for a way out of his loneliness and isolation. Much of that solitude is self-imposed and the result of being in a very conservative masculine world....

Syndrome K – Life Saving Disease

Syndrome K – Life Saving Disease

Aug 15, 2022

Doctors take an oath to save lives. Sometimes that means making some hard decisions. For a group of doctors at a Catholic hospital in Rome in 1943, those decisions were very hard. It could have cost them their lives. Instead they infected a number of local Jews with a...