by Jack Brown | Feb 11, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Film, News
For parents of school-age children, February break can be a trying time. Personal days at work have likely been put to use to cope with blizzards that never appeared, and the winter wind that creeps in during the middle of the month means that our energetic kids are...
by Jack Brown | Feb 4, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
It’s no secret that, more than just about any other medium, cinema has relied on — and thrived on — adapting material from other art forms. Whether it is as traditional as a new production of an old classic (see any number of period piece dramas) or as unusual as...
by Jack Brown | Jan 28, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, News
As a young and nerdish boy, I was obsessed with words. I collected them the way a lepidopterist might collect moths, catching them on the wing and pinning them down to puzzle out their origins, oddities, and family ties to other words. It all felt like a marvelously...
by Jack Brown | Jan 21, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
The people who run the show over at Amherst Cinema have never been content with the idea that their venue is a mere movie theater. From the start, the vision of the theater encompassed not just great film, but also community enrichment, education, and more. As the...
by Jack Brown | Dec 10, 2014 | Articles, Blogs, Cinemadope, Featured, Film
There are so many wonderful mysteries left in the world. In an era when so much can be laid bare with just a few keystrokes, it’s comforting, somehow, to know that there is much we don’t fully understand. Not just the odd bits here and there, but some fairly big...
