Movie Reviews, Digital HD Reviews, and Television Reviews

Here at FlickDirect, our goal is to provide up-to-date reviews on theatrical, home entertainment, and television series. Check out the scoop on upcoming films or programming, and even our take on the classsics from our critics and Rotten Tomatoes Approved, Allison Rose.

Resident Evil The Complete Series

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/24/2020 2:08 PM EST
The year was 1996 and video games had become a staple in many households. At that time, one of the more popular consoles on the market was (and still is) PlayStation. Capcom, a video game development company, decided to make a survival horror game where uninfected people had to fight against zombies and monsters after the pharmaceutical... Read More

The Croods: A New Age

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/23/2020 12:17 PM EST
DreamWorks Animation began in 1994 as a subdivision of Amblimation but ten years later it became its own company. Over the last 25 years, DreamWorks has released thirty-eight animated feature films. Beginning with The Prince of Egypt, the company has had success with several movie franchises including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, a... Read More

Sound of Metal

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/20/2020 9:47 AM EST
The saying goes…be careful what you wish for, you may just get it. To put it another way, if you get what you think you wish for you may be disappointed with the results. Sometimes, it's better to just be satisfied with and grateful for what you have already instead of trying to "fix" things. This lesson plays ou... Read More

The Last Vermeer

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/19/2020 10:24 AM EST
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch artist who lived in the middle of the 1600s. While alive, he gained a certain level of regional success but, due to his expensive paint supplies and having a family of eleven children, he died in 1675 leaving his family with a mountain of debt.Henricus Antonius "Han" Van Meegeren was born almost three ce... Read More

The Last Vermeer

(Alyn Darnay) 11/18/2020 10:11 AM EST
Just when you think every interesting story about WWII has been told and retold, along comes another, and this one as compelling as any that came before. "The Last Vermeer", is a tale of mystery, of Art Fraud, and the weeding out of Nazi collaboration at the end of the war. It's also a gripping courtroom drama with twist after twist and a... Read More

The New Mutants

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/17/2020 2:14 PM EST
In 1939 publisher Martin Goodman created Timely Publications, and twenty-two years later, thanks mainly to Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the legendary, Stan Lee, Marvel Comics was born. Two years after the first X-Men comic was published. Based on a group of "mutants" with supernatural powers, the X-Men were feared by humans ev... Read More

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/17/2020 12:26 AM EST
Star Wars is so much more than just a series of films produced over four decades. It is a multi-million-dollar franchise and a culture all its own. It has nine core movies, numerous spin-off films, cartoons, toys, books, television series, videogames, dolls and so much more. Lego toys are almost three decades older than the Star W... Read More

Westworld: Season 3: The New World

(Nathan M Rose) 11/16/2020 5:00 PM EST
In 1973 a young Michael Crichton (way before Jurassic Park was ever written) made his directorial debut. The film called, Westworld, starred Yul Brynner (The Ten Commandments) and detailed what happened when robots in a futuristic adult theme park go crazy. Westworld had mediocre success, but in October 2016, the property was picked up by Jonathan ... Read More

Mallrats: 2-Disc 25th Anniversary Special Edition

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/16/2020 10:00 AM EST
Kevin Patrick Smith (Clerks) was born and raised fifteen minutes from me in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and is a mere six months older than me (yet abundantly more financially successful). When his first feature film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, won two awards and later screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it c... Read More

Freaky

(Alyn Darnay) 11/14/2020 8:20 PM EST
What do you need to spin a yarn about teenagers in danger, that twists the usual Slasher/Comedy film in some unique way, yet stays true to the original genre?Simple. First, you borrow every cliché in every film of its type that came before it and blends it into a slickly shot, gory, playtime piece that your projected audience is both used to... Read More