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Darrel Manson

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Sing Me a Song – Undetached Buddhism

Sing Me a Song – Undetached Buddhism

Dec 4, 2020

If your mind pictures a Buddhist monastery as a step back in time or as a place of detachment from worldly things, you may be in for a surprise when you see Sing Me a Song from documentary filmmaker Thomas Balm?s. Balm?s first visited the monastery in Bhutan ten years...

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Dec 2, 2020

?Don?t give up on the crazy; that?s what makes love love.? Dennis Dugan?s Love, Weddings & Other Disasters begins with a spectacular breakup during a skydive, which ends up sweeping a wedding party off a dock, which becomes a viral video that earns florist Jessie...

The Loss Adjuster – Job lite

The Loss Adjuster – Job lite

Dec 1, 2020

?It?s only when you?ve lost everything that you realize what you?re really missing.? In Vincent Woods?s film The Loss Adjuster, a modern-day Job is having one of the worst days of his life. It begins with his wife leaving him and goes steadily downhill. Martin Dyer...

Princess of the Row – Love on Skid Row

Princess of the Row – Love on Skid Row

Nov 27, 2020

In Van Maximillian Carlson?s Princess of the Row, the model of familial loves is boiled down to a teenage girl and the love she has for her father. That may not seem a very difficult concept, but the father in this instance is problematic. Alicia (Tayler Buck) has...

Nimic – Short and Deep

Nimic – Short and Deep

Nov 27, 2020

We may not expect an Oscar nominated writer/directorto bring us a short film. But then we don?t often know what to expect from Yorgos Lanthimos (three nominations between The Lobster and The Favourite). Nimic is twelve minutes worth of the kind of surreal weirdness...

Last Call – Dylan Thomas Rages

Last Call – Dylan Thomas Rages

Nov 25, 2020

?You think your self-destruction is grand theater?. You?re just a performer in your own pathetic vaudeville show.? Legend has it that on November 3, 1953, famed Welsh poet Dylan Thomas spent the day at The White Horse Tavern in New York. When he got back to his hotel,...