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Darrel Manson

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Belfast – Hometown memories

Belfast – Hometown memories

?There are no roads to Shangri-la from our parts of Belfast.? In Belfast, Kenneth Branagh, who wrote and directed, creates a fictionalized version of his childhood. It is a film built on the nostalgia of youth with a background of the violence of the sectarian...

The Laws of the Universe: The Age of Elohim

The Laws of the Universe: The Age of Elohim

When I got a ?For Your Consideration? feeler for an anime film with the title The Laws of the Universe: The Age of Elohim, ?I thought how can I resist this one?? I had to see how another culture would look at the God of the Jewish and Christian traditions. As...

National Champions – A Complicated Game

National Champions – A Complicated Game

If you think National Champions is a story about college football, you may be disappointed. I don?t recall seeing a single football play (although I may have missed some clips in the TV sports hype that opens the film). Rather this is a film about the business...

Sanremo – Filling Emptiness

Sanremo – Filling Emptiness

?Each day is a new day. We get up each morning and start again.? That is especially true for the characters in Sanremo from director Miroslav Mandi?. As dementia removes memories, it can make each day a horror, a challenge, or a wonder. Sanremo is Slovenia?s entry for...

Welcome to Earth -Our amazing home

Welcome to Earth -Our amazing home

In Welcome to Earth, from National Geographic and streaming on Disney+, Will Smith tells us of some of the things he?s never done, then goes on to do some of them. Smith is our guide to experience our planet in new ways. The limited series has brought together various...

Betrayed – The guilt of doing nothing

Betrayed – The guilt of doing nothing

In some ways Betrayed, from director Erik Svensson is like many other films about the Holocaust. It tells the story of the deportation of Jews from Norway in 1942. (Actually, we start three years earlier, in more normal times.) But this film doesn?t quite follow the...