Dollhouse: Season Two
With the advent of the second and final season of Joss Whedon's latest commercial failure, Dollhouse, viewers are in for a few treat...
FlickDirect Movie Reviews
Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media 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.
Stargate SG-U: 1.0
You would think that, having done this at least twice before, producing 15 seasons of Stargate franchise television, the makers of Stargate Universe would know what they're doing...
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
I'm planning a trip this weekend, so naturally, I'm finding myself once again considering the diminishing returns problem. It's the mathematical rule that makes every extra dollar spent...
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...
Chuck: The Complete Third Season
There's nothing quite so compelling of excellence from humanity than impending doom. From followers of Rapture theology, it breeds a love/hate relationship with apocalypse. To corporat...
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.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
As if we wish to relive it again, we make the children of humanity grow up much as humanity itself did, steeped in superstition. We are only to be granted the ability to tell the difference be...
Stargate Universe - SGU: Season 1.5
To resolve a debate posed between two minor characters in "Space", the first episode of this latter half of Stargate Universe's first season: yes, Colonel Young (Louis Ferreira,...
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...