Tropic Sprocket / Deepwater Horizon
Tropic Sprocket / Deepwater Horizon By Ian Brockway Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) directs the horrid events of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. His story has all …
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Tropic Sprocket / Deepwater Horizon By Ian Brockway Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) directs the horrid events of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. His story has all …
Tropic Sprocket / Little Men By Ian Brockway “Little Men” is yet another stirring and percussive film from director Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange). The …
Tropic Sprocket / Deepwater Horizon By Ian Brockway Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) directs the horrid events of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. His story has all …
Tropic Sprockets / Denial By Ian Brockway Director Mick Jackson (L.A. Story, Chattahoochee) takes on the insidious and offensive subject of historical revisionism in “Denial,” …
Tropic Sprockets / Sully By Ian Brockway Here is “Sully,” Clint Eastwood’s latest, and once again, (as in American Sniper’s Chris Kyle) he gives his …
Tropic Sprockets / The JT LeRoy Story By Ian Brockway Director Jeff Feuerzeig (The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Real Rocky) has always been edgy …
Tropic Sprocket / Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children By Ian Brockway It is old home week yet again with the visionary Tim Burton. In …
Tropic Sprocket / The Birth of a Nation By Ian Brockway Nate Parker’s unapologetic and earthy “The Birth of a Nation ” is a visceral …
Tropic Sprocket / Anthropoid By Ian Brockway “Anthropoid” by director Sean Ellis focuses on a largely forgotten episode in World War II history, namely the …
Tropic Sprocket / Mia Madre By Ian Brockway The introspective writer/director Nanni Moretti (Caro Dario) is back with “Mia Madre.” This is a thoughtful and …
Tropic Sprockets / Sausage Party Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, the bad boys of comedy, have come up with some irreverent goods in “Sausage Party” …
Tropic Sprockets / The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Beatles, the supergroup consisting of John, Paul, George and Ringo, are a pop culture frequency …
Tropic Sprocket / Equity By Ian Brockway Director Meera Menon (Farah Goes Bang) puts a gender spin on a Wall Street themed film. Although “Equity” …
Tropic Sprocket / The Innocents By Ian Brockway Though “The Innocents” features a convent in crisis under the blight of snow, giant stone crucifixes, shadowy …
Tropic Sprocket / Southside with You By Ian Brockway The producer Richard Tanne strikes a clear, refreshingly lively and heartfelt note in his directorial debut …
Tropic Sprocket / Hell or High Water By Ian Brockway Go get em, Cowboy! This is the overriding thought one has in watching “Hell or …
Tropic Sprocket / The Light Between Oceans By Ian Brockway Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines) echoes the melodramatic quandries of Thomas Hardy in …
Tropic Sprocket / Bad Moms By Ian Brockway In 2011, there was a groundbreaking comedy called “Bridesmaids.” It worked precisely because the ladies depicted were …
Tropic Sprocket / Indignation By Ian Brockway James Schamus (writer of The Ice Storm) directs a tense and mysterious adaptation of Phillip Roth’s novel Indignation …
Tropic Sprocket / Finding Dory By Ian Brockway The cuties of the sea are back in Pixar’s “Finding Dory,” a sequel to the earlier “Finding …