by Minter Dial | Dec 21, 2014 | Entertainment
I watched the film LUCY last night. The premise of the film is delightful: what if we were able to use our full intellectual capacity? What if we be able to activate 100% of our brain’s computing power? While I was lured into the idea that this was another view...
by Minter Dial | Mar 13, 2014 | Social Media
There are typically three schools of thought about South by Southwest (aka SXSW): It’s over. It’s over-hyped. It’s passé. It’s a zoo. It’s a waste of time. I also heard “too much ass licking.” This, or words to that...
by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2013 | Entertainment, Minter Dialogue, Podcast, WWII
Jan Thompson, Professor of Radio-Television at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the producer of a new feature-length documentary, “Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience,” which is going to premiere this Saturday (April 6) in Chicago, at the Gene...
by Minter Dial | Dec 3, 2012 | Entertainment
The other day, while walking through the chic 7th arrondissement of Paris, I came across James Bond’s real life car… We all know that Bond must live in Monaco, no? Here is a photo of it. Ok, it’s possibly not Bond’s car, because it is no Aston...
by Minter Dial | Jan 4, 2012 | Entertainment
Not the film of all time To ring in the new year, we went to see the new Martin Scorsese film, Hugo, based on the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick. This 2 hour+ film did not seduce me on the merits of the direction, plot or acting. I thought of it...
