by Jack Brown | Jan 2, 2020 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
Fans of the horror genre, and specifically the subset of films that have come out of Asia, will recall the mid-2000s as a heady time. With the success of the 2002 Gore Verbinski film The Ring — a remake of the 1998 Japanese film Ring, in which watching a cursed...
by Jack Brown | Dec 23, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
Back in the Blockbuster era of movie consumption it was hard not to think of movies in terms of genre first: walk into one of those big box shrines to moviemaking and you couldn’t take a step without first charting a course by the signs hanging from the ceiling....
by Jack Brown | Dec 19, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
You may or may not have heard, but this thing called Christmas is happening on Wednesday. Turns out it’s kind of a big deal, and while a lot of the movie-going crowd will be busy elsewhere on the 25th, local cinemas are getting in the spirit in the days leading up to...
by Jack Brown | Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
When well-known activist Frances Crowe died this August at her home in Northampton, the loss rippled through the town in a way few passings do. One hundred years old at the time of her death, Crowe had touched generations of Valley residents — changing some minds,...
by Jack Brown | Dec 2, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
If you talked much politics over the Thanksgiving table this year, you probably noticed that very few of those involved knew what they were talking about. Which is to say that most of us, however passionate we might be about a particular issue, often lack a true...