Tropic Sprockets / Aquaman
Tropic Sprockets / Aquaman By Ian Brockway In what may be the first superhero film to mention human culpability in pollution and global warming, James Wan …
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Tropic Sprockets / Aquaman By Ian Brockway In what may be the first superhero film to mention human culpability in pollution and global warming, James Wan …
Tropic Sprockets / The Favourite By Ian Brockway The uncompromising but always compelling Yorgos Lanthimos strikes again, this time in a historical vein with “The Favourite.” …
Tropic Sprockets / Mary Poppins Returns By Ian Brockway Guess who’s back? It’s Mary Poppins in the long awaited sequel from Disney, “Mary Poppins Returns.” …
Tropic Sprockets / A Personal Reflection By Ian Brockway Film: A Discovery of Friendship My first memory of cinema and pop culture was when I …
Tropic Sprockets / Suspiria By Ian Brockway Dario Argento’s cult film “Suspiria” (1977) is a pop art tour de force for its wonderfully vivid saturated lighting …
Tropic Sprockets / Creed II By Ian Brockway Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is one of cinema’s most beloved characters. As a lovable “ordinary man” from …
Tropic Sprockets / Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald By Ian Brockway Director David Yeats returns to J.K. Rowling territory in the sequel to the first …
Tropic Sprockets / Boy Erased By Ian Brockway Garrard Conley‘s memoir of his terrifying experience in conversion therapy, Boy Erased, is adapted by Joel Edgerton in …
Tropic Sprockets / Yorgos Lanthimos: The Power of the Unexplained By Ian Brockway Being a lover of Kafka and Italo Calvino, I am newly interested in …
FILM ON HOLOCAUST RESCUER ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES TO BE SHOWN IN KEY WEST, FL Community members are invited to a film screening of …
Tropic Sprockets / Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald By Ian Brockway Director David Yeats returns to J.K. Rowling territory in the sequel to the first …
Tropic Sprockets / Green Book By Ian Brockway Mahershalah Ali (Moonlight) delivers another excellent performance as Dr. Don Shirley, a jazz musician in the real …
Tropic Sprockets / The Grinch By Ian Brockway In 1966, How the Grinch Stole Christmas made television history with its inimitable animation and the distinctive …
Tropic Sprockets / Colette By Ian Brockway Colette was arguably the most famous female writer in France. She is perhaps best known for a novella, …
Catalonian Kinetics / Barcelona, Figueras and Port Lligat by Ian Brockway I. On the plane, feelings of my mortality. I could not believe that I …
Tropic Sprockets / Halloween By Ian Brockway As a horror film, the original “Halloween” by John Carpenter deeply affected me. It had a simplicity. It …
Tropic Sprockets / Bohemian Rhapsody By Ian Brockway As the front man of Queen, singer and songwriter Freddie Mercury is one of the most charismatic …
Tropic Sprockets / The Old Man & the Gun By Ian Brockway Robert Redford stars as real life bank robber Forrest Tucker who successfully escaped …
Tropic Sprockets / A Star is Born By Ian Brockway Directed by actor Bradley Cooper, this “A Star Is Born” is a glossy, heartfelt close remake …
Tropic Sprockets / Flashes of Chrome: Recollections By Ian Brockway Flashes of Chrome: Recollections When I was a kid in the mid 1970s, I was surrounded …