<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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23 Walks – A little different love story

23 Walks – A little different love story

Sep 17, 2021

We may think that a love story is a love story. They meet. They clash. They become friends. They fall out. They reconcile. Life is beautiful. Those are the typical beats in such a story. They are all there in 23 Walks, written and directed by Paul Morrison, but it all...

Azor – Soulless Banker

Azor – Soulless Banker

Sep 10, 2021

What does ?Swiss bank? bring to mind? A numbered account? Secrecy about ill-gotten gains? Do you think of politics and class warfare? Azor, from Swiss director Andreas Fontana, shows us a bit of that behind the curtain world. Sure, its about money, but even more, it...

Days of Darkness – Are We in a New Dark Age?

Sep 7, 2021

[NOTE: I wrote this review in 2008 after seeing the film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, expecting to publish it when it was released in the US. However, the film never got a release. I?ve often wondered what happened to it in all those years. Now it...

Memory House – The Weight of Oppression

Memory House – The Weight of Oppression

Sep 3, 2021

In Memory House, Brazilian filmmaker Jo?o Paulo Miranda Maria shows us the way a history of colonialism (even when it?s not officially colonial) continues to be a spiritual burden that many cannot escape. Cristovam is a indigenous black man from Northern Brazil who...

Defining Moments – It’s about life.

Defining Moments – It’s about life.

Aug 24, 2021

Stephen Wallis?s Defining Moments is a collection of intersecting stories about people who are facing those times in their lives that could well change everything. This is a light-hearted film that at times seems a bit ludicrous, but within that there are morsels of...

The Magnificent Meyersons – Wandering Wisdom

The Magnificent Meyersons – Wandering Wisdom

Aug 19, 2021

?Sometimes, I wish God would just reach down and give the world a big old shake, you know?? One day. One family. And it all gets shaken up a bit. Evan Oppenheimer?s The Magnificent Meyersons is a peripatetic search for understanding what it means to live in a world...

Wildland – Family Values?

Wildland – Family Values?

Aug 19, 2021

In Jeanette Nordahl?s Wildland, family is the most important thing in life. But is that good? Can a source of love also be a place in which one is broken down? Is the call of family worth giving up one?s sense of right and wrong? And what will we sacrifice to belong?...