by Jack Brown | Mar 18, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
During the waves of police brutality protests that rolled across the nation this last half-year, there were any number of arresting images: protestors pouring milk in their eyes to counteract the tear gas used to disperse crowds; a highway patrolman leading a peaceful...
by Jack Brown | Mar 10, 2015 | Cinemadope, Film
At long, long, last, I can finally announce: this is the last Cinemadope column of this long, long winter. Next week, spring will be upon us, at least by the calendar, and we can all begin to forget the frigid and snowbound Sartre play that this winter has been. To...
by Jack Brown | Mar 3, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
I’m not sure exactly when it was that I realized that my mom wasn’t quite like most of the other moms in our neighborhood. And from the outside, at least when I was still a boy, maybe she didn’t strike others as different, either: husband, two kids, house, a station...
by Jack Brown | Feb 25, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
As we turn the corner into March, the kids have headed back to school, leaving the rest of New England to get back to the important business of shoveling out parking spaces and shoring up roofs creaking under the weight of ice dams. But if this long winter is starting...
by Jack Brown | Feb 18, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
Ask just about anyone to name a famous painting, and it’s a good bet that “The Mona Lisa” will be the first thing to jump to most people’s lips. Da Vinci’s most famous work — and bear in mind, this is from the guy who also painted “The Last Supper” — may be on the...
