by Jack Brown | Apr 15, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film
Spring in the Pioneer Valley always brings with it the sweet reminder of how lucky we are to be surrounded by so many working farms. Drive down just about any road that leads into or out of one of our bigger towns, and you’re sure to coast by a few coolers with “Fresh...
by Jack Brown | Jun 18, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
Something I’ve come to love about Father’s Day weekend is my own dad’s profound disinterest in the world of the internet. He doesn’t give a fig for Facebook, has no email address, and if he were ever involved with something viral it would be cause for a trip to the...
by Jack Brown | Jun 12, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
Open a newspaper, turn on your television, scroll through your Facebook feed: it won’t be long before you’re face to face with the ongoing discussion of the state of immigration in America. To be sure, the current resident of the White House — whose policies have...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Aug 7, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Film, News
I’ve always been interested in surrealism, but never quite enough to actually do any research into it beyond looking at some Salvador Dali paintings. But one reference to a surrealist work stuck with me. In the 2011 Woody Allen movie Midnight In Paris, the surrealist...
by Jack Brown | Aug 2, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
For as long as stories have been told, they have been told about pairs: Odysseus and Penelope, Arthur and Merlin, Bugs and Elmer. It’s a rare tale that doesn’t focus, in some way, on that essential human desire to connect. It can bring us to ecstasy or despair —...