Foxcatcher / Tropic Sprockets by Ian Brockway
Tropic Sprockets by Ian Brockway Foxcatcher Director Bennett Miller (Capote) gives his film “Foxcatcher” the appropriate brown and gray tones in telling the true life …
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Tropic Sprockets by Ian Brockway Foxcatcher Director Bennett Miller (Capote) gives his film “Foxcatcher” the appropriate brown and gray tones in telling the true life …
Tropic Sprockets The Imitation Game BY IAN BROCKWAY KONK LIFE COLUMNIST Despite a reserved “Masterpiece Theatre” tone and some ultra attentive enunciations, Swedish director Morten …
Tropic Sprockets Wild BY IAN BROCKWAY KONK LIFE COLUMNIST Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club) gives us another collaged and stream of consciousness trip in “Wild.” …
Tropic Sprockets Dear White People BY IAN BROCKWAY KONK LIFE COLUMNIST In style and content, Justin Simien’s “Dear White People” speaks about the daring and …
Tropic Sprockets Force Majeure BY IAN BROCKWAY As a director, Ruben Östlund is not one to pull away from disturbing themes. His previous film …
Tropic Sprockets The Theory of Everything by Ian Brockway Physicist Stephen Hawking is very much a popular and a pop art figure, deep within …
Tropic Sprockets Birdman BY IAN BROCKWAY KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER The eccentric and semi-reclusive actor Michael Keaton gives a breakthrough performance as the one-time action …
TROPIC SPROCKETS KW Film Festival by Ian Brockway The Key West Film Festival brings a spectrum of choices each year that parallels our island’s …
TROPIC SPROCKETS Kill the Messenger BY IAN BROCKWAY Jeremy Renner gives a raw and visceral performance as Gary Webb, a reporter for the San …
Tropic Sprockets Gone Girl by Ian Brockway David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” has arrived at The Tropic, based on Gillian Flynn’s page-zipping novel. Fincher (The Social …
TROPIC SPROCKETS A Walk Among the Tombstones BY IAN BROCKWAY Konk Life Staff Writer Liam Neeson has done so many revenge pictures ala Nicolas Cage …
Tropic Sprockets The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby BY IAN BROCKWA Ned Benson’s debut film “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” (originally designed with three alternate perspectives) …
Tropic Sprockets The Skeleton Twins By Ian Brockway Filmmaker Craig Johnson (True Adolescents) takes us on a novelistic journey that is as rich as a …
The Drop By Ian Brockway Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam master of the shockingly visceral “Bullhead” that dealt with paranoia in the butcher …
TROPIC SPROCKETS The Trip to Ital BY IAN BROCKWAY Two pop culture-obsessed people are at it again, traversing though Europe in funny voices. This is “The …
The Last Of Robin Hood By Ian Brockway The directing duo of Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer (The Fluffer, Quinceañera) have a definite …
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 …