Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

Tropic Sprockets / Highest 2 Lowest By Ian Brockway The New York auteur Spike Lee scores a triumphant return to the thriller genre with “Highest …

Tropic Sprockets / Together By Ian Brockway In a tribute to David Cronenberg and Ari Aster as well as a slapstick poke at the pandemic …

By Ian Brockway Opacity and emotional volatility are the order of the day from the Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa, in the director’s latest …

Tropic Sprockets / Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight By Ian Brockway Embeth Davidtz stars in and directs a striking debut adaptation of Don’t Let’s …

Tropic Sprockets / The Naked Gun By Ian Brockway Just when you thought “The Naked Gun” franchise had shed all of its slapstick weaponry in …

Tropic Sprockets / Sorry, Baby By Ian Brockway Director Eva Victor has a pensive debut hit with “Sorry, Baby,” a character study set in the …

Tropic Sprockets / Crip Camp By Ian Brockway When I was a kid, I went to an Easter Seals camp in Kissimmee, Florida with a …

Tropic Sprockets / Sovereign By Ian Brockway From Christian Zwegal, “Sovereign” is a tense and sorrowful meditation on the 2010 police shootings in Arkansas in …

Tropic Sprockets  / Eddington By Ian Brockway From the 21st-century maestro of fear Ari Aster (Beau Is Afraid), “Eddington“ focuses on the 2020 pandemic in …

By Ian Brockway Many moviegoers and television fans have fond memories of Superman, the alien being from far away Krypton who landed in America and …

Tropic Sprockets / 40 Acres By Ian Brockway R.T. Thorne has a tense and thoughtful debut portrait of apocalyptic life in “40 Acres,” which focuses …

Tropic Sprockets / Familiar Touch By Ian Brockway Sarah Friedland has a debut outing which is affecting while being understated. “A Familiar Touch” is the …

Tropic Sprockets / Everything’s Going to Be Great By Ian Brockway Jon S. Baird (Stan & Ollie) directs “Everything’s Going to Be Great” an amusing …

Tropic Sprockets / F1 By Ian Brockway Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) scores a predictable but nonetheless effective hit in “F1” focusing on the tense …

Tropic Sprockets / Bring Her Back By Ian Brockway Alfred Hitchcock was famous notably for “Psycho” (1960) among others because he implied many frights rather …

By Ian Brockway “28 Years Later” is the second sequel from the dystopian franchise centering on the day-to-day struggles of a zombie pandemic. Though the …

Tropic Sprockets / Materialists By Ian Brockway In what could be a study in self-centered romance, director Celine Song (Past Lives) delivers an immersive tale …

Tropic Sprockets / The Phoenician Scheme By Ian Brockway The idiosyncratic Wes Anderson (Asteroid City) directs “The Phoenician Scheme.”  Though it might only speak to the …

Tropic Sprockets  / Jane Austen Wrecked My Life By Ian Brockway Laura Piani in a debut film directs “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.” The film …

Tropic Sprockets / Friendship By Ian Brockway Andrew DeYoung (Would It Kill You to Laugh?) crafts a dark comedy that is almost, but not quite, …