by Jack Brown | Jul 23, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film, Newsletter
Close your eyes, and think back to the stories of your youth. It’s remarkable, how strongly they stay with us. The recent release of Morgan Neville’s Mr. Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? put a spell on me, casting me back to my own childhood — Fred Rogers...
by Jack Brown | Jul 16, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
Film and television may be the land of the moving image, but it has sure given us a lot of great music over the years. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, quietly breathing out Moon River. Shirley Bassey’s brassy, wagging Goldfinger. The many themes and soundtracks...
by Jack Brown | Jul 9, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
When the world lost Miriam Makeba in 2008, we lost a great musical and political voice. The first African musician to become a solid international star, her powerful singing crossed national divides without ever losing touch with her South African roots — no mean...
by Jack Brown | Jul 2, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
Growing up, I wasn’t often presented with images of strong women. You’d see the occasional Rosie the Riveter magnet here and there, but even then it seemed odd to me that it required sending most of the male population to an overseas war before a woman got a chance to...
by Jack Brown | Jun 25, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
It’s finally getting into the full swing of summer here in the Valley — the asparagus festival has come and gone, the colleges have mostly emptied out, and keeping up with the yard work is beginning to turn downright Sisyphean. If you find yourself longing for a...
