Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

Tropic Sprockets / If Beale Street Could Talk Bby Ian Brockway Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) directs the excellent striking and episodic “If Beale Street Could Talk” based …

Tropic Sprockets / Vice By Ian Brockway ­­“Vice” is Adam McKay’s sardonic Pop Art biopic of Vice President Dick Cheney, the man many still love to …

Tropic Sprockets / The Psychadelia of Roma and Easy Rider By Ian Brockway Thinking of the past and present, there are two films “Roma” (2018) …

Tropic Sprockets / Mary, Queen of Scots By Ian Brockway Theater director Josie O’Rourke’s biopic “Mary, Queen of Scots” makes for some titillating intrigue, whether or …

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 …