Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

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 …

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 …