Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

Here at FlickDirect, our goal is to provide up-to-date reviews on theatrical, home entertainment, and television series. Check out the reviews of upcoming films or programming, and even our take on the classsics.

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.

Mad Max

Nov 10, 2010

You could suppose, if you so desired, that the grand construction of humanity's unique accomplishment, the abstract model of the universe, is nothing more than the same small set of ideas remixed and...

Full Review | Grade: B

Dollhouse Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

Dollhouse: Season Two

Oct 27, 2010

With the advent of the second and final season of Joss Whedon's latest commercial failure, Dollhouse, viewers are in for a few treat...

Full Review | Grade: B

Stargate Universe Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

Stargate SG-U: 1.0

Oct 21, 2010

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...

Full Review | Grade: C

The Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of The Ring Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

Lord of The Rings Trilogy

Oct 15, 2010

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...

Full Review | Grade: B

Secretariat

Oct 07, 2010

Ayla examined her son again, trying to remember the reflection of herself. My forehead bulges out like that, she thought, reaching up to to...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Social Network

Oct 01, 2010

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...

Full Review | Grade: B

Chuck: The Complete Third Season

Sep 20, 2010

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...

Full Review | Grade: B

Takers

Aug 26, 2010

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.

Full Review | Grade: C

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Aug 19, 2010

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...

Full Review | Grade: C

Stargate Universe - SGU: Season 1.5

Aug 09, 2010

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,...

Full Review | Grade: B