Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

Tropic Sprockets / The Embrace Of The Serpent By Ian Brockway Ciro Guerra’s Oscar-nominated film “The Embrace of the Serpent” is a hypnotic and gripping …

Tropic Sprockets / Son of Saul This year’s Academy Award winner in the foriegn category “Son of Saul” by  László Nemes is a flawless and …

Tropic Sprockets / The Finest Hours By Ian Brockway In the tradition of “The Perfect Storm” and “Titanic”, Craig Gillespie’s “The Finest Hours” depicts the …

Tropic Sprockets / Mustang By Ian Brockway The Oscar nominated foreign film “Mustang” by Deniz Gamse Ergüven is a haunting spellbinder with push and pull. …

Tropic Sprockets / Anomalisa By Ian Brockway Charlie Kaufman (Synedoche, Being John Malkovitch, Adaptation) is the prince of eerie cinema. His pair of directed films …

Tropic Sprockets / The Revenant The much anticipated Best Picture Nominee “The Revenant” by Alejandro Inarrito has arrived. This Gothic epic about the life of …

Tropic Sprockets / The Lady In The Van By Ian Brockway Alan Bennett is the groundbreaking comedian and playwright who collaborated with Dudley Moore and …

Tropic Sprockets / Where To Invade Next? By Ian Brockway Here is progressive hero Michael Moore’s latest film “Where to Invade Next?”, his first documentary …

Tropic Sprockets / Youth By Ian Brockway Paolo Sorrentino, perhaps the closest to Federico Fellini in current cinema, both engages and confuses again in “Youth,” …

Tropic Sprocket / The 2016 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Animation By Ian Brockway Animation has always been at the forefront of experimental cinema for the simple reason …

Tropic Sprockets / The 2016 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action By Ian Brockway This year’s Oscar shorts are well in the mode of 2015’s existential tone, …

Tropic Sprockets / 45 Years By Ian Brockway “45 Years” is director Andrew Haigh’s masterful character study of a marriage, based on a short story …

Tropic Sprockets / The Hateful Eight By Ian Brockway Director Quentin Tarantino is never one to inhibit himself, and he doesn’t here. His latest outing …

Tropic Sprockets / Carol By Ian Brockway Todd Haynes (L.A. Confidential) directs this handsome and close-to-the-page adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel,  “Carol,” about a young …

Tropic Sprockets by Ian Brockway Journey from Zanskar: a monk’s vow to children Fredrick Marx (Hoop Dreams) directs this sweeping, adventuresome and tense documentary of …

Tropic Sprockets / Zanskar A Monk’s Vow To Children By Ian Brockway Fredrick Marx (Hoop Dreams) directs this sweeping, adventuresome and tense documentary of sixteen …

Tropic Sprockets / Joy By Ian Brockway David O. Russell (American Hustle) directs this quirky and mostly true story about Joy Mangano, the inventor of …

Tropic Sprockets / The Big Short By Ian Brockway In what might seem like financial porn, given the unbridled greed that many of the characters …

Tropic Sprockets by Ian Brockway / The Danish Girl Gender identity is at the core of our being, coloring our heart, our psyche and every …

Tropic Sprockets / Room By Ian Brockway “Room” is the tense and visceral story of a mom, Joy (Brie Larson), and her son, Jack  (Jacob …