Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

Tropic Sprockets / Whiplash By Ian Brockway Director Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) has given us a spellbinding quasi-autobiography with “Whiplash,” …

Tropic Sprockets / Merchant Ivory By Ian Brockway Stephen Soucy has crafted a brisk documentary on the Merchant Ivory partnership spanning some 43 projects. The …

Tropic Sprockets / Close Your Eyes By Ian Brockway The Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (Spirit of the Beehive) has crafted yet another engrossing feature with …

Tropic Sprockets / Beetlejuice Beetlejuice By Ian Brockway In 1988, Tim Burton’s madcap Halloween fantasy “Beetlejuice” came on the screen with a flourish and frenzy …

Tropic Sprockets / Slingshot By Ian Brockway Mikael Håfström (1408) directs the space thriller “Slingshot” starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne. [Showtimes and trailer at …

Tropic Sprockets / Between the Temples By Ian Brockway Nathan Silver (Thirst Street) directs “Between the Temples” an amiable affectionate film in the mode of …

Tropic Sprockets / War Game By Ian Brockway Tony Gerber (We Will Rise) and Jesse Moss (The Overnighters) direct “War Game” a documentary that is …

Tropic Sprockets / Sing Sing By Ian Brockway There have been countless films about prisons and inmates, but they invariably focus on break-ins, morality, or …

Tropic Sprockets / It Ends with Us By Ian Brockway Justin Baldoni directs a bestselling melodrama “It Ends with Us” based on the popular novel …

Tropic Sprockets / The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout By Ian Brockway In the early 1950s, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States conducted tests of atomic …

Tropic Sprockets / Bullitt By Ian Brockway From Peter Yates, here is the classic “Bullitt” starring Steve McQueen. The film is remarkable for including life …

Tropic Sprockets / Trap By Ian Brockway Night Shyamalan is known as a modernist Hitchcock for his twist endings as in his classic “The Sixth …

Tropic Sprockets / Modernism, Inc: The Eliot Noyes Design Story By Ian Brockway Jason Cohn delivers a thorough portrait of designer Eliot Noyes. The documentary …

Tropic Sprockets / Touch By Ian Brockway Baltasar Kormákur directs “Touch” an affecting multi-cultural star-crossed love tale that has wonderfully nuanced performances despite being somewhat …

Tropic Sprockets  / Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World By Ian Brockway Ron Chapman’s lively documentary “Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World” is …

Tropic Sprockets / Twisters By Ian Brockway “Twisters” by Director Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) is big on action and hair-raising stunts but does not quite …

Tropic Sprockets / Last Summer By Ian Brockway Catherine Breillat is known for pushing the envelope, and she does so here in “Last Summer,” a …

Tropic Sprockets / Kinds of Kindness By Ian Brockway Surrealist Maestro Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, Dogtooth) can be depended on for daring themes and images. …

Tropic Sprockets / Maxxxine By Ian Brockway Director TI West completes his pulp and cult X trilogy with “Maxxxine.” The film is nearly volcanic with …

Tropic Sprockets / The Bikeriders By Ian Brockway Jeff Nichols’s docudrama “The Bikeriders” based on Danny Lyon’s expose on The Outlaws, is vivid and percussive, …