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Calvary By Ian Brockway Taking a sinister cue from his brother, the playwright Martin McDonagh, director John Michael McDonagh steers this tense and …
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Calvary By Ian Brockway Taking a sinister cue from his brother, the playwright Martin McDonagh, director John Michael McDonagh steers this tense and …
Magic In The Moonlight By Ian Brockway The iconic Woody Allen gives a one-handed playful doodle on film. The self- consciously titled “Magic …
Tropic Sprockets Boyhood BY IAN BROCKWAY The singular director Richard Linklater hits big with nothing less than a human epic. “Boyhood” is a visual roman …
A Most Wanted Man By Ian Brockway Dutch master Anton Corbijn, (The American), a poet of images which are strikingly and invariably tinted …
Tropic Sprockets BY IAN BROCKWAY KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Begin Again Irish wunderkind John Carney scores another warm but existential hit that is a quasi …
Snowpiercer By Ian Brockway One can imagine Korean director Bong Joon-ho (The Host) pulsing with manic manga energy, his head covered with ink-black …
TROPIC SPROCKETS BY IAN BROCKWAY Snowpiercer One can imagine Korean director Bong Joon-ho (The Host) pulsing with manic manga energy, his head covered with ink-black …
TROPIC SPROCKETS Citizen Koch BY IAN BROCKWAY Watch out! Here is a film scarier than “Jaws.” Michael Moore producer Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water) directs …
Maleficent By Ian Brockway Special effects maestro Robert Stromberg, known as Uncle Rob, has rendered a great experience in his directorial debut, which …
The Fault In Our Stars By Ian Brockway In what could be a conceptual exercise in how to make a teen romance by …
Neighbors By Ian Brockway In what might have been a one joke film under less skillful hands, director Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) …
Tropic Sprockets BY IAN BROCKWAY The Immigrant With a story that is unapologetically cold, grim and more understated than the work of Albert Camus, James …
Tropic Sprockets By Ian Brockway Locke Tom Hardy, who is known for his aggressive and usually villainous roles (Bane, of The Dark Knight Rises), …
Tropic Sprockets BY IAN BROCKWAY Fading Gigolo In director John Turturro’s (Passione) fifth film “Fading Gigolo,” you might think you just stepped into Woody Allen’s …
Tropic Sprockets BY IAN BROCKWAY Anita Frieda Lee Mock (Wrestling with Angels) starts her documentary on Professor Anita Hill off with a bang, as she …
Joe By Ian Brockway Get ready to tighten your belts and squint your eyes. We haven't seen the last of Southern Gothic and more …
Dom Hemingway By Ian Brockway Jude Law sheds his Hollywood glamour and seems the one having the most fun in "Dom Hemingway," a …
Tropic Sprockets BY IAN BROCKWAY The Lunchbox The debut film from Ritesh Batra “The Lunchbox” is a retro throwback to the American films of the …
TROPIC SPROCKETS BY IAN BROCKWAY The Grand Budapest Hotel Indie charmer Wes Anderson delivers the expected quirky goods with “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, a picaresque …
TROPIC SPROCKETS Jokes crackle in Bad Words BY IAN BROCKWAY Bad Words Taking a page from Billy Bob Thornton’s most irreverent comedies, actor Jason Bateman …