<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Emergency Declaration – Fear of flying

Emergency Declaration – Fear of flying

Aug 12, 2022

I can understand the fear of flying. An airplane is cramped, filled with strangers, under the control of someone you don?t know, and if something goes wrong there are very few good outcomes. In a world with pandemics all of this takes on new levels of worry. All of...

My Name Is Sara – A Unique Too Common Story

My Name Is Sara – A Unique Too Common Story

Aug 11, 2022

?You have to survive. It will be our revenge.? Steven Oritt?s premiere feature film, My Name Is Sara, is based on a true story from the Holocaust. It is like many other such stories, but it is also different from those stories as well. It is a bit of a reminder that...

A Balance – What is truth?

A Balance – What is truth?

Jul 29, 2022

?What we put together is the truth.? What begins as a righteous search for the truth in Yujiro Harumoto?s A Balance, devolves into lies and manipulation. It even begins to call into question whether we can trust those who are meant to bring us the truth. Yuko (Kumi...

Jesus Kid – Down a rabbit hole

Jesus Kid – Down a rabbit hole

Jul 27, 2022

?Nothing makes sense in this story.? While the quotation above may scare some people off, there is a great history of stories that don?t make sense, for example, Lewis Carroll?s stories about Alice. Aly Muritiba?s Jesus Kid may not be a trip to Wonderland, but it is...

How to Please a Woman – An intimate comedy

How to Please a Woman – An intimate comedy

Jul 22, 2022

?I?m not sure I know how to please a woman.? ?If you can say that, you?re a better man than most.? How to Please a Woman, written and directed by Ren?e Webster, is a risqu? comedy about women being given a voice in their own lives. In the process it exposes some of...

Queen of Glory – Finding community

Queen of Glory – Finding community

Jul 15, 2022

Nana Mensah?s dark comedy Queen of Glory is a look at life within the Ghanaian-American community as someone who was raised there. The idea of community and its power to bring healing are central to the story. Sarah Obeng (Mensah) is a doctoral student at Columbia,...

Don’t Make Me Go – Finding life in death

Don’t Make Me Go – Finding life in death

Jul 14, 2022

?Every man dies, not every man truly lives.? That truism has several variations and possible sources. Often it is through the nearness of death that we begin to see what life is really about. That is the concept that Hannah Marks explores in Don?t Make Me Go. JOHN CHO...

Costa Brava, Lebanon – Dealing with the trash

Costa Brava, Lebanon – Dealing with the trash

Jul 13, 2022

?It takes more time to solve adult problems.? ?Then, why didn?t you start solving them sooner?? It?s tempting to call Mounia Akl?s Costa Brava, Lebanon a trashy movie, but that might give the wrong idea. It is a movie that looks at the trash we cannot avoid, no matter...