Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

Tropic Sprockets / Us By Ian Brockway   Jordan Peele’s follow up to the provocative debut “Get Out,” entitled “Us,” is vivid and striking, if …

Tropic Sprockets / The Beach Bum By Ian Brockway   Director Harmony Korine has done some striking work featuring unusual characters and their individualist points …

Tropic Sprockets / How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World By Ian Brockway Dean DeBlois (Lilo & Stitch ) directs the colorful and engaging …

Tropic Sprockets / Apollo 11 By Ian Brockway “Apollo 11” by Todd Douglas Miller is a documentary detailing the 1969 moon landing that took eight …

Tropic Sprockets / Everybody Knows By Ian Brockway Asghar Farhadi is a great director known for his highly emotive and intense stories. His latest “Everybody …

Tropic Sprockets / Captain Marvel By Ian Brockway Directors Anna Boyden and Ryan Fleck (Mississippi Grind) are known for their eccentric collaborations full of quirky …

Tropic Sprockets  / Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse By Ian Brockway Spiderman is back and better than ever in a new virtuosic Oscar-nominated, animated feature directed …

Tropic Sprockets / Never Look Away By Ian Brockway “Never Look Away” is nominated for two Academy Awards and directed by Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck …

Tropic Sprockets / Capernaum By Ian Brockway   Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” (Choas) nominated for Best Foreign Film is tense, knotty, claustrophobic and unfailingly compelling. As a …

Tropic Sprockets / Arctic By Ian Brockway   The Brazilian musician Joe Penna offers a striking directorial debut with “Arctic”. The story, a day by day …

Tropic Sprockets / Stan & Ollie By Ian Brockway Jon S. Baird (Filth) directs “Stan & Ollie,” a stunningly authentic biopic of the 1930s Laurel & …

Tropic Sprockets / Cold War By Ian Brockway   Director Pawel Pawlikowski is known for striking images, and Oscar nominated “Cold War” is no exception, telling …

Tropic Sprockets / The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Documentary By Ian Brockway The documentary shorts have a history of being pointed, uncompromising and confrontational, providing a full …

Tropic Sprockets / LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” By Ian Brockway   Mike Mitchell (Sky High) directs the appropriately vivid and highly charged sequel to …

Tropic Sprockets / The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action By Ian Brockway   The literal translation of the French word Fauve (the title of one of …

Tropic Sprockets / At Eternity’s Gate Bby Ian Brockway Julian Schnabel a painter and filmmaker and the director of the inspired biopic “Basquiat” from 1996, now …

Tropic Sprockets / Can You Ever Forgive Me? By Ian Brockway “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is the story of author and literary forger Lee Israel, …

Tropic Sprockets / Shoplifters By Ian Brockway   Director Hirokaru Koreeda (Still Walking) directs a natural, heartfelt story of a family where nothing is as it …

Tropic Sprockets / Free Solo By Ian Brockway “Free Solo” by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin is a documentary about Alex Honnold, who climbed El …

Tropic Sprockets / Glass By Ian Brockway   M. Night Shyamalan’s comic book streak continues with “Glass,” presumably the last act in a set of superhero …