Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

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 …

Tropic Sprockets by Ian Brockway (While the Tropic is closed for renovation and not opening new movies, our reviewer Ian, who has used a wheelchair …

Tropic Sprockets / Fahrenheit 11/ 9 By Ian Brockway   Whether you love him or not, one thing is indisputable. Michael Moore is one of our …

Tropic Sprockets / We the Animals By Ian Brockway Jeremiah Zagar directs a moody yet evocative coming of age story titled “We the Animals” based on …

Tropic Sprockets / Juliet Naked By Ian Brockway Director Jesse Peretz has a likeable romantic comedy with “Juliet, Naked.” The film is smooth and jovial …