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Get the latest news about what's going on at the Tropic, plus movie reviews from our in-house critics, Shirrel Rhoades and Ian Brockway. You’ll also find reviews from film festivals and advance screening movies. Want to make sure you never miss a thing? Follow the Tropic on Facebook for daily updates!
Tropic Sprockets: Dune: Part Two
Once again, Villeneuve's "Dune" features panoramic visuals and intense facial expressions, in addition to a more totalitarian paranoia. But unlike its predecessor the pacing has improved, the pathos is more authentic, and it is chock full of action.
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Front Row at the Movies: Dune: Part Two
“Dune: Part Two” was named the Most Anticipated Film at the 6th Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards. But the wait is over.
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Tropic Sprockets: Chasing Trane
This lively film sketches the iconic man’s life from a humble student voraciously learning, to an accomplished musician, and finally in the end, to a spiritual visionary. The film is peppered with human anecdotes and celebrity interviews.
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Tropic Sprockets: 2024 NOW Women’s Film Festival
It is time for our cinematic forces to unite in joy and intent with another NOW Film Fest at the Tropic. A different film each Wednesday in March celebrating Women’s History Month.
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Front Row at the Movies: Chasing Trane
Directed by John Scheinfeld, “Chasing Trane” is a “comprehensive, engrossing … and worshipful” look at the jazz musician. It features never-before-seen home movies and once-lost studio footage of Coltrane and his band (discovered in a California garage during the production of this film).
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Tropic Sprockets: 2024 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts
This year the Live Action shorts are a downcast bunch with one exception. That being said, the films are emotive and well produced. Each one deals with human relationships and pathos, the pitfalls of being human. With each drama, one travels the world.
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Tropic Sprockets: 2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts
This selection feels decidedly more lighthearted in tone than previous years and faithful to the tradition, these films are progressive, pointed, and dynamic with humor and heart.
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Tropic Sprockets: Bob Marley – One Love
This film, produced by Ziggy Marley, brings the late musician into the light. It is a warm and empathetic portrait that underscores the struggle and emotion of a creative and spiritual person, placing Robert Nesta Marley firmly in an earthly heaven where he rightly belongs.
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Front Row at the Movies: Amazing Grace
Directed by the late Michael Apted (“Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Enigma”), this biographical drama tells of abolitionist William Wilberforce, who worked in the late 1700s to stem the transatlantic slave trade. He is credited for steering legislation through Parliament that ended the slave trade in the British Empire.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Promised Land
Based on the struggle of Captain Ludvig Kahlen of Denmark in the 1700s, this slow burn film has all the apprehension of an epic Western. Existential and gutsy, it has enough gore for a Grand Guignol torture tale or a British Hammer production from the 1970s.
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