Hit and Run
The motor sounds are real. Writer/director/star Dax Shepard (Parenthood, When in Rome) provided many.
FlickDirect Movie Reviews
Movie / Film Reviews by Stephen Compall
Browse reviews written by Stephen Compall, including critical takes on films, home entertainment releases, and television series.
Ostensibly a programmer from faraway places, Stephen recognizes that making up your mind about movies and television is a simple matter of imposition in the form of review, and he who controls minds controls the world. No word yet on how that second part is progressing. After seeing many films, a few good, for FlickDirect, he returned to faraway places, but still checks in from time to time.
Warrior
I watched befuddled, backtracking Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte, 48 Hrs, Mother Night) working desperately, unselfconsciously to insinuate himself back into his son's life. As he stood on son B...
Secretariat
Ayla examined her son again, trying to remember the reflection of herself. My forehead bulges out like that, she thought, reaching up to to...
The Social Network
What most surprised me regarding The Social Network was the degree to which I sympathized with its subject, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland, Solitar...
Takers
There is no justice in the world, but there can be justice in film, so Takers in its later acts becomes bent on digging up the flaws in its characters, so carefully papered over in the run-up to the heist, and punishing them for it.
Dinner For Schmucks
Where should we place him on the Michael Scott axis? It is the first question brought to our minds by the appearance of by now quite typecast Steve Carell (The Office, The 40-Year O...
Salt
Salt may be a spy movie, but we begin by eschewing the spy movie form in favor of the slightly awkward introduction of plot device Mike (August Diehl, Inglourious Basterds), fol...
Predators
Do you realize how great things are now? No longer are we bound by the conventions of cinema to listen to Jesse Ventura wax metaphor on his sexual prowess. The adhocracy of special effects devices has...
Robin Hood
This latest adaptation of Robin Hood is quite careful in the way in which it connects itself to the traditional legend. The dénouement serves as a sort of origin story for the Ro...
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