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Tropic Sprockets: Skincare
The drama is aided by spacey cool visuals of Los Angeles, making it a blend of “Mullholland Drive” and “The Stepford Wives.” Behind every pink walkway is a reptilian being out for blood.
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Tropic Sprockets: It Ends With Us
Despite its best intentions and compelling performances by Blake Lively and Jenny Slate, the story cannot escape its soapy trappings and the Hallmark card predictability.
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Front Row at the Movies: Auntie Mame
One of the bestselling satirical novels of the 20th century, “Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade” chronicled the adventures of a boy growing up as the ward of his eccentric aunt. Rosalind Russell played the title role in the Broadway adaptation, and then starred in the movie version, winning a Golden Globe for her screen portrayal.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Conqueror–Hollywood Fallout
Though “The Conqueror” was a critical disaster, in popularity the film proved a great success. But the entire cast unwittingly worked in mounds of radioactive soil brought in from the location to enhance authenticity.
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Front Row at the Movies: Trap
Starring Josh Harnett and Ariel Donohue, we meet a likable dad who is taking his daughter to a Lady Raven rock concert to reward her for good grades. At the concert, they notice an unusually high number of police. He comes to realize this is an elaborate trap to catch a serial killer – him.
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Tropic Sprockets: Trap
The intrigue of the film is its commentary of Pop stardom on young teens. Riley is completely enraptured by Lady Raven. Not even the fear of a psychotic dad can lessen her devotion to the Diva singer with the watchful Keane eyes.
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Tropic Sprockets: Touch
Baltasar Kormákur's “Touch” has a fair amount of understatement, and this adds to its honesty and gives the story a tangible sense of haunt, which all great love stories possess.
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Front Row at the Movies: Touch
As we get older, we often think back over our lives, wondering how things might have gone differently. Sometimes we think of business decisions that went awry. Or friends who drifted away. Or lost loves. In “Touch,” a film by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, an elderly man begins to think about his past, wondering “what might have been.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Modernism Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story
Jason Cohn delivers a thorough portrait of designer Eliot Noyes. The documentary is engaging, informative, and detailed with a visual style of Mondrian.
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Tropic Sprockets: Bullitt
Like “Serpico” and “The French Connection,” this film distilled the soiled and gritty side of police life, where all is harsh and confining, with fluorescent light, anemic and strange.
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