<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Maudie – Validation of a Life

Maudie – Validation of a Life

Jul 24, 2017

?The whole of life, already framed, right there.? It?s hard to assign Maudie to any one genre. Certainly it qualifies as biography. But it is also a bit of art history. It?s an inspirational story of finding success and happiness against terrible odds. And at its...

The Midwife – Life’s Transitions

The Midwife – Life’s Transitions

Jul 20, 2017

Life is a series of transitions, bookended by the two great transitions of birth and death. But along the way there are many more shifts in our lives?some trivial, others more profound. The Midwife is a story of the transitions of life that are--like life itself--a...

Lou – A Short Look at Redeption

Jun 23, 2017

It?s not unusual for me to go to a Disney/Pixar animation film and be more impressed with the short that plays before the feature than the feature itself. That is certainly true of Lou, which plays before Cars 3. I thought Cars 3 was very well done with important...

Lost in Paris – A bit of slapstick

Lost in Paris – A bit of slapstick

Jun 20, 2017

Fans of mild slapstick will be attracted to Lost in Paris. It is the work of Belgian comedy team of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. They bring a burlesque visual sensibility to their work. The film is made up of three conjoined stories. When Canadian librarian Fiona...

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Jun 9, 2017

In the worldwide banking crisis of 2008, many big banks (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo among them) were committing fraud in the mortgage market. They paid fines, but they also got massive taxpayer-funded bailouts because they were ?too big to...

Megan Leavey – A Marine and Her Dog

Megan Leavey – A Marine and Her Dog

Jun 8, 2017

?They?re not even dogs anymore; they?re warriors. And they come back with all the same issues we do.? Based on a true story, Megan Leavey is a story of warriors?a Marine and her dog. But it is more than a war story. It is the story of a struggle to find one?s place in...