by Jack Brown | Feb 27, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film, Newsletter
We Americans are a nostalgic bunch. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just that we are still such a young nation — there are Italian cafes that are older than our whole country — that we like to fool ourselves into thinking we have more history than we do. Or maybe, when...
by Jack Brown | Feb 20, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
It’s easy, when Oscars season rolls around, to feel jaded about the cult of celebrity that Hollywood engenders. It can seem that the same kinds of films, and the same kinds of stars, come away with the golden statue every year. But if we’re still waiting for the...
by Jack Brown | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Film, Newsletter
All Ages Show For years now, the Academy of Music in Northampton has played host to the annual KidsBestFest film festival. It’s a free week-long event (donations are welcome) that mixes great kid-centric movies from around the world with a local event known as...
by Jack Brown | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
Every year at Oscar time we get a speech about the power of visual effects and their ability to “capture the magic in our mind” or some such thing, followed by a green-screen montage of dragons, space aliens, and transforming cars that are also space aliens. Don’t get...
by Jack Brown | Jan 30, 2017 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film, Newsletter
Building a Wall Over the last few years, a regular appointment in Boston meant that I was frequently traveling along Route 2 between Franklin County and the Hub. It was more convenient than driving south to hook up with the Pike, and more picturesque, even if it did...
