Darrel Manson

Toy Story 4 – Old Friends, but…

Darrel MansonJun 20, 2019

After nine years, the beloved Disney-Pixar Toy Story franchise continues in Toy Story 4. It brings back the characters that we have enjoyed and even loved in the previous films. For that reason alone, I?m sure that many people will be enthralled with the newest part...

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Back to the Fatherland – The Burden of the Past

Darrel MansonJun 18, 2019

How can young Israelis decide to move to Germany or Austria, given the historical issues Jews faced there? Back to the Fatherland gives us a look at a few of those young people?and their grandparents?to try to find some insight into the possibility to finding a future...

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1on1 with Wayne Roberts, writer and director of Katie Says Goodbye

Darrel MansonJun 14, 2019

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Wayne Roberts, the writer and director of Katie Says Goodbye. The film was one of my favorites at the 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival where it won awards for best Actress (Olivia Cooke) and Best Screenplay. It is now in...

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Free Trip to Egypt – Finding Friends

Darrel MansonJun 6, 2019

A stranger with a middle-eastern look about him comes up and offers you a free trip to Egypt. What would you be concerned about? Would you take them up on it? Tarek Mounib, born in Canada of Egyptian parents, now living in Switzerland, went to Trump rallies, stood in...

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Katie Says Goodbye – More than a Victim

Darrel MansonJun 6, 2019

?Thank you for this day, Daddy. I hope I lived right and if I see you one day that I make you proud.? I first saw Katie Says Goodbye at the 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival, where I ranked it among my favorites. The film won jury awards for Best Actress (Olivia Cooke)...

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The Tomorrow Man – Earthly Treasures

Darrel MansonMay 24, 2019

Blythe Danner and John Lithgow appear in The Tomorrow Man by Noble Jones. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says, ?Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for...

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Walking on Water – Finding the Real in Art

Darrel MansonMay 23, 2019

?Artist is not a profession. You don?t work from 9 to 5. To the artist, you are all the time artist. There is no moment you are not artist.? The artist Christo is known worldwide for his very large scale temporary art projects. But after the death of his wife and...

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All Is True – The Bard’s Retirement

Darrel MansonMay 23, 2019

?It?s not Hamnet you mourn; it?s yourself.? Kenneth Branagh has always had an affinity for Shakespeare?s works. He has appeared in, written, and/or directed several screen adaptations of Shakespeare?s plays. Now, in All Is True, he portrays William Shakespeare in his...

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General Magic – The Success of Failure

Darrel MansonMay 5, 2019

?Failure is not the end. Failure is actually the beginning? In the early 1990s a group of Apple employees left the company to try to take computing to the next step?a handheld computer that people can carry around. And they did. Except the company they started failed....

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