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trueDarrel Manson2007-01-25T20:36:00-08:002007-01-26T04:40:03Z2007-01-26T04:37:19Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9567540.post-116978623917109268Manson's Memo - XLI is on the waySo, the Super Bowl teams are determined. Two Midwest teams will go to Florida to play each other. Seems to me it would be better to play the Game in Gary, Indiana, between the two, but it's not really about the football game -- it's about the event.
There is a load of money involved in Super Bowl XLI. There are the tickets -- that only corporations can afford to buy. There are the TV ads andfalseDarrel Manson2007-01-13T11:46:00-08:002007-01-13T22:35:18Z2007-01-13T19:47:39Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9567540.post-116871765975169479Darrel's Dozen -- top films of 2006It hasn't been a bad year. If it's easy to put together a top films list, then there hasn't been much to choose from. This year my list overflows. Although all of these films are certainly worth seeing, what the year lacked is a few films that just plain knock your socks off. That means that the grade for the year is a respectable B-.
Here are my "dozen" films for 2006: Tsotsi - thefalseDarrel Manson2007-01-09T20:48:00-08:002007-01-10T04:49:52Z2007-01-10T04:49:52Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9567540.post-116840459280730511<I>The Painted Veil</I>The Painted Veil opens in a florist shop where we learn that Kitty's family doesn't buy flowers, because why should you buy something that you can grow. They also don't grow flowers because it is "silly to put all that effort into something that's just going to die." Certainly an unromantic beginning to a love story. Well, I say it's a love story, but it takes a while to get there.
Kitty isfalseDarrel Manson2007-01-05T19:38:00-08:002007-01-06T03:39:29Z2007-01-06T03:39:29Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9567540.post-116805476947378154Book Review: <I>Reel Spirituality</I>, 2nd editionThe original edition of Robert K. Johnston's Real Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue has been for many, myself included, a very helpful text to understand the interaction between theology and the movies we watch. In recent years this interaction has been a growing discipline. Johnston, who teaches at Fuller Theological Seminary, has been a leading writer in the field. Now a second editionfalse