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Tropic Sprockets: Secret Mall Apartment
Michael Townsend was an artist and a mall kid, and he spied an abandoned storage space right near the upstairs food court. He and his friends got the idea to make it a living condo, and the project (and film) evolves into a gradual revolt against capitalism and conventional status quo.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Ballad of Wallis Island
“The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island” told the story of a lottery winner who pays a folk singer half a million pounds to perform for him on his private island. The short was so well received that director James Griffiths has now adapted it into a feature.
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Tropic Sprockets: Sinners
Coogler has crafted a meticulous vampire tale set in the hateful violence of the Jim Crow South, full of emotive performances and evocative music pieces reminiscent of Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt.
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Front Row at the Movies: Sinners
The critics already love “Sinners.” It has an incredibly high Rotten Tomatoes score of 99%. Even so, a Best Picture win would be an uphill climb. Genre/action movies aren’t traditional Oscar fare. And at its heart, “Sinners” is a vampire movie -- fangs and all.
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Tropic Sprockets: Warfare
Co-directed by Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza and taken from his own experiences, Alex Garland's film is tense, anxious, and direct, and doesn’t hold back. It is an excellent study of strength and survival.
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Front Row at the Movies: Warfare
It must be like looking into a funhouse mirror to see someone else playing you in a movie -- and even more disorienting when you’re the one directing the autobiographical pic. That’s the experience Ray Mendoza faced when making “Warfare."
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Tropic Sprockets: The Friend
This homo sapien / canine friendship story has all the hallmarks of happy tears but the film possesses such pleasurable ease and aims for what is sincerely sweet and meaningful about our four-footed loves.
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Tropic Sprockets: Thank You Very Much
Andy Kaufman is brought to life in a new lively documentary by Alex Braverman. The film is accessible, vivid and informing and lowers the mask — at least halfway— on a man who was discordant, confusing, eerie, strange and to some, even violently upsetting.
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Front Row at the Movies: Thank You Very Much
A lot of the time, Kaufman could be funny – or less funny – but his goal is to have you asking, “What is going on?” Or “Is that for real?” Or “What are these guys doing?”
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Tropic Sprockets: The Penguin Lessons
This film is no pablum for penguins, but a direct and measured story about a frightened and reserved man opening up through his contact with nature—but one will no doubt be compelled to release the white birds of Kleenex during the film’s finale.
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