by By Jack Brown | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
Ask people what they like in art, and you might think that all they want is “the real world” mirrored back at them. We hail the Old Masters — their mastery of light and shadow, their ability to make hard marble seem like supple skin. But where would we story lovers be...
by Jack Brown | Mar 8, 2016 | Articles
There was a time in my life — not, in truth, all that long ago — when I didn’t think that the genius of Looney Tunes would ever be equalled. Sure, animation has grown to encompass all sorts of new technologies since Bugs and company first hit the screen, but what made...
by Amanda Drane | Mar 8, 2016 | Articles, Film
What happened to Michael Vick’s fighting dogs? (Firefly Filmworks) The Champions — a documentary film that follows the pit bulls rescued from famous quarterback Michael Vick’s dog fighting ring in 2007 — will at once devastate your faith in humanity and restore it....
by Jack Brown | Feb 29, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
You don’t have to be a music nerd to know Marvin Hamlisch. Or a theater nerd. Or a film nerd. Or a television nerd. Because even if you don’t know him by name, Hamlisch’s work will have seeped into the soul of anyone who was alive in the latter half of the 20th...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 16, 2016 | Articles
In the opening minutes of I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, a puppeteer walks onto the set of Sesame Street. He wears a small TV monitor harnessed to his chest. The legs of his bright orange pants, held up by suspenders, terminate in big, soft bird feet. He...
