<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Vice – Humble Servant to Power

Jan 4, 2019

John Nance Garner (one of FDR?s Vice Presidents) observed that the Vice Presidency ?is not worth a bucket of warm spit.? But that was different when Dick Cheney became Vice President. Cheney seemed to many to be the real power during George W. Bush?s presidency (at...

Styx – The Ethics of Life and Death

Styx – The Ethics of Life and Death

Dec 26, 2018

If you see someone in need, should you help? That may seem like a simple question, but it is one that we must deal with in many ways almost every day. Often we help. Often we have reasons not to help. Wolfgang Fischer?s film Styx is a moving story of a woman who must...

Cold War – Smoldering Sorrow

Cold War – Smoldering Sorrow

Dec 21, 2018

?Love?s love and that?s that.? A pair of star-crossed lovers are the focus of Pawel Pawlikowski?s Cold War, Poland?s entry for Best Foreign Language Film consideration. Set in the years following the Second World War, it moves back and forth between the Communist and...

Stan & Ollie – True Friendship

Stan & Ollie – True Friendship

Dec 20, 2018

Laurel and Hardy were one of the greatest comedy duos of all time. They bumbled their way into the hearts of audiences that have spanned generations.?Stan & Ollie, from director Jon S. Baird, is both an homage to brilliance of their comedy, and an examination of...

At Eternity’s Gate – Van Gogh’s Calling

At Eternity’s Gate – Van Gogh’s Calling

Dec 17, 2018

?God is nature, and nature is beauty.? The life of Vincent Van Gogh with all its spiritual and psychological challenges is well known. In At Heaven?s Gate, from artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, we see scenes from his life?some based on his letters, some from...

Capernaum – Chaos or Miracles

Capernaum – Chaos or Miracles

Dec 14, 2018

How does one survive without being ?officially? a person? For people such as refugees or the poor, there may be no paper trail of their existence. In Capernaum, from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, we see a boy struggle with life in that kind of world. Zain (Zain Al...

Backtrace – Memory and Loss

Backtrace – Memory and Loss

Dec 14, 2018

Backtrace is a story of memory, remembrance, and pain. But mostly it is a film about losing things we haven?t even appreciated losing. When a trio of bank robbers go to meet the inside men who planned it all, a shoot-out occurs. Two of the robbers lay dead. The third,...