Posts in category Tropic Sprockets

Tropic Sprockets / Emergent City By Ian Brockway New York has everything. The city is a smorgasbord of stimuli. Along the Brooklyn waterfront there is …

Tropic Sprockets / Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning By Ian Brockway Tom Cruise is back as undercover man and super savior Hunt in the …

Tropic Sprockets / Marcella By Ian Brockway The well-known chef and teacher Marcella Hazan (1924-2013) is profiled in Peter Miller’s documentary “Marcella”. The film is …

Tropic Sprockets / Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie By Ian Brockway Cheech & Chong evolved as a spontaneous duo that achieved fame in the late …

Tropic Sprockets / Fight or Flight By Ian Brockway James Madigan (Iron Man 2) has created a cartoonish and colorful action thriller that vibrates with …

Tropic Sprockets / The Surfer By Ian Brockway A hybrid of “The Lord of the Flies” and Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” has a colorful rebirth …

Tropic Sprockets / The President’s Wife By Ian Brockway The politics of France are spoofed with a light touch in Lea Domenach’s “The President’s Wife”. …

Tropic Sprockets / On Swift Horses By Ian Brockway Filmmaker Daniel Minahan (Fellow Travelers) directs “On Swift Horses,” adapted from the novel by Shannon Pufahl. …

Tropic Sprockets / Secret Mall Apartment By Ian Brockway “Secret Mall Apartment,” a documentary by director Jeremy Workman focuses on the energies of RISDI artist …

Tropic Sprockets / Sinners By Ian Brockway With Hitchcockian elegance, patience and verve, director Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) takes on the genre of Gothic Horror …

Tropic Sprockets / The Friend By Ian Brockway Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel deliver a breezy but affectionate heartfelt adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend. …

Tropic Sprockets / Warfare By Ian Brockway From the idiosyncratic and edgy Alex Garland (Civil War), “Warfare” centers on the Iraq War. The film is …

Tropic Sprockets / Thank You Very Much By Ian Brockway According to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, the term Surrealism is “a 20th-century style and movement …

Tropic Sprockets / The Penguin Lessons By Ian Brockway Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) directs the fluid and pleasant “The Penguin Lessons.” Despite some pull …

Tropic Sprockets / The Rule of Jenny Pen By Ian Brockway Director James Ashcroft brings forth fear with mixed results in “The Rule of Jenny …

Tropic Sprockets / On Becoming a Guinea Fowl By Ian Brockway From director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch) here is “On Becoming a …

Tropic Sprockets  / There’s Still Tomorrow By Ian Brockway Using the neo-realist black and white style of Roberto Rossellini to great effect, actor Paola Cortellesi …

Tropic Sprockets / Universal Language By Ian Brockway From Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century), “Universal Language” is an absurdist melancholic comedy with its own odd …

Tropic Sprockets  / Black Bag By Ian Brockway In a “Less is more” exercise Steven Soderbergh teams up with screenwriter David Koepp in another film …

Tropic Sprockets / Seven Veils By Ian Brockway Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) directs his interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome with “Seven Veils.”  [Showtimes and …