by Minter Dial | Nov 25, 2011 | Entertainment
What if the war went wrong? I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the premiere of Resistance, a new film with Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough, directed by Amit Gupta and based on the novel, Resistance by Owen Sheers. The story is fictional and is based on...
by Minter Dial | Aug 1, 2009 | Entertainment
The 2003 Québécois film, “La Face Cachée de la Lune,” — or “Far Side of the Moon” — by Robert Lepage (ingenuously written, directed, produced and headlined with dual lead roles) is a fabulous film that I highly recommend. Having...
by Minter Dial | May 19, 2009 | Travel
We spent last weekend in sunny, windy, & rainy Dorset, around the wedding of my dear old friend, Tom. Using our Tom-Tom to find Tom was something of a leitmotif for the weekend as we drove around endless country roads hidden from cows’ views by huge parallel...
by Minter Dial | May 5, 2008 | Entertainment
No Country for Old Men – Film Review: 4.7/5.0 stars “No Country for Old Men” was one of two films that I saw on the plane from Dubai to Paris, both of which featured Vietnam veterans. And, I was totally surprised by the strength of this film since I...
by Minter Dial | May 5, 2008 | Entertainment, Politics
Music Within – Film Review 4.0/5 stars Directed by Steven Sawalich (second feature film after Sunday in the Park with George and Phil in 2000), Music Within is a film much less to do with music (as much as all the wonderful 1960s hits strike the nostalgic...