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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.
Chaos Walking
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/3/2021 2:35 PM EST British – American author Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls) has written several young adult short stories and novels since first being published in 2003. His work has garnered accolades and awards with two novels having been adapted into films and a third into a television series. His latest film, Chaos Walking, follows Todd (Tom Hol... Read More |
Raya and the Last Dragon
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/1/2021 12:00 PM EST Diversity has become a common topic for discussion in the entertainment industry. From "whitewashing" of award nominees and casting movie/television roles with actors of different ethnicities than the characters they are supposed to be portraying. As such, the country is seeing a shift towards more conscious and varied charact... Read More |
Tom & Jerry
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/26/2021 8:41 AM EST Eighty years ago, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created a cartoon for MGM studios called Tom & Jerry. They wrote 114 short films about the house cat, Tom, and his nemesis, Jerry the mouse. Over the course of eighteen years, Hanna and Barbera but the unlikely duo in all kinds of situations pitting them against each other most of ... Read More |
The Mauritanian
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/12/2021 9:25 AM EST Habeas Corpus, which literally translates to "produce the body" is defined as a court order demanding that a public official (such as a warden) deliver an imprisoned individual to the court and show a valid reason for that person's detention. Lawyers will utilize this technique to find out why their client is being held in ... Read More |
Land
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/11/2021 3:31 PM EST Majestic and beautiful, the Rocky Mountains can be a place of tranquility and peacefulness. It can also be isolating and lonely. While that might seem appealing for various reasons, it is dangerous, especially during the harsh winter months. Land, the new film starring and directed by Robin Wright (The Princess Bride, Wonder Woman), tou... Read More |
Judas and the Black Messiah
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/10/2021 4:08 PM EST Established in 1966, The Black Panther Party was a polarizing and violent presence in the fight for civil rights. During that time, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya; Get Out), the chairman of the Illinois chapter was betrayed by a low-level thief, Bill O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield; Sorry to Bother You), who infiltrated the Black Panther organization... Read More |
The Little Things
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/28/2021 10:10 AM EST I admit it, I am fascinated by serial killers. I question why they do what they do, how their minds work to play out the details of their crimes, what sick satisfaction they get, especially when they torture and murder innocent people. I know experts have said it's having power over their victims that motivates them but it still intrigues me ... Read More |
Saint Maud
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/26/2021 7:26 PM EST Nurses are often taken for granted. They are with patients sometimes more than the patient's own family and often do what is necessary to make those that are sick feel a little more comfortable. Nurses and home care workers who work with terminally ill patients must be akin to saints, as they take care of individuals who they know will ... Read More |
The Marksman
![]() (Alyn Darnay) 1/14/2021 6:08 PM EST When I was a kid, about the same age as the character Miguel in this film, my folks gave me a present. It was a box full of numbered little bottles of paint and a canvas outline of a horse in a corral divided up into small sections with numbers corresponding to the paint bottles. It was called "Paint By Numbers" and it was very popular at... Read More |
One Night In Miami
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/13/2021 9:29 PM EST Four, young, black men walk into a room…it may sound like the beginning of a joke but, in fact, it is the foundation for Regina King's (If Beale Street Could Talk) directorial debut, One Night in Miami. Inspired by true events, the film brings together four Iconic Black men who, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, wielded great ... Read More |
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