<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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The Cuban – Jazzy Memories

The Cuban – Jazzy Memories

?We can?t change the past. All we have left is our future.? The past and future are not so much what Sergio Navarretta?s The Cuban focuses on. Rather it calls us to find life in the present. Mina (Ana Golja) is a young Afghan-Canadian pre-med student who is working at...

A Girl Missing – Spite Hurts

A Girl Missing – Spite Hurts

When a young woman?s life falls apart through a series of events around her, she?s left with nothing?except a plan, not for restoration, but revenge. But we learn that revenge may be just as unsatisfying as the life she has been left with. K?ji Fukada?s A Girl Missing...

Most Wanted – The Cost of Ambition

Most Wanted – The Cost of Ambition

What happens when a big, police inspired drug sting goes bad? Most Wanted, from writer/director Daniel Roby, is inspired by a true story of a Canadian man who was used by the police and left hanging in the wind when things turned bad. Daniel L?ger (Antoine-Olivier...

The Days of the Whale – Leaving a Mark

The Days of the Whale – Leaving a Mark

The streets of Medell?n, Columbia, are the setting for Catalina Arroyave?s debut feature, The Days of the Whale. The streets she shows us are filled with color because of the music and graffiti artwork. But those streets are also places of darkness because of the...

Carmilla – Sin Lurking at the Door

Carmilla – Sin Lurking at the Door

Vampires have a wide range of portrayals in our culture. They have scared us (Noferatu, and Dracula), become love interests (the Twilight series), a metaphor for sexual variation (True Blood), comic figures (What We Do in the Shadows), or a mixture of all of the above...

Dateline-Saigon – Fighting the Lie Machine

Dateline-Saigon – Fighting the Lie Machine

?There are these two armies that are going to meet: this tiny little army of journalists?five, or six, seven?and this army of policy.? The role of a journalist is to share the truth. During the early years of the Vietnam War, a small group of young journalists who...