Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

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 …

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 …