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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.

V: The Final Battle

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/14/2020 9:20 AM EDT
As fans, we can be passionate and overzealous about our favorite shows/movies/music/etc. Just look at all the social media posts about Netflix's sensational documentary, Tiger King. Everyone is talking about this show and if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for? Well, Back in 1983 and 1984 colleagues stood aro... Read More

Just Mercy

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/31/2020 11:20 AM EDT
In 1985 Bryan Stevenson graduated from Harvard Law School and instead of going to work in a fancy law firm, making lots of money and working 80 hours a week, he chose to work for the Southern Center for Human Rights. After federal funding for that program was cut he decided to create the non-profit EJI=Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, ... Read More

The Grudge

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/23/2020 10:26 AM EDT
In 1998, while in film school, Takashi Shimizu created; a series of short horror films called Ju-On or "Curse Grudge". They became popular in Japan and in 2004 a version, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) was produced for American cinema. It was followed by The Grudge 2 In 2006 and a third installment that wa... Read More

Jumanji: The Next Level

(Alyn Darnay) 3/22/2020 7:54 PM EDT
Can you hear the drums beating? Is your pulse racing? Are you slowly being drawn molecule by molecule into another universe? The answer is yes and you're off on another adventure inside the mysterious game called "Jumanji". The question is will you survive long enough to solve another quest and get back out?!Jumanji is back and it has add... Read More

Richard Jewell

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/17/2020 4:39 PM EDT
There is a problem in this country when someone is even vaguely accused of a crime. Law enforcement and the media seem to convict the suspected perpetrator, sometimes with little to no real evidence. The media also add fuel to the fire in the court of public opinion and so often people believe what they say without question. If yo... Read More

The Ten Commandments

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/10/2020 4:25 PM EDT
Cecil B. DeMille is known as a founding father of American film and the most commercially successful producer-director in all of film history. He made seventy feature films both silent and with sound and he will never be forgotten. Some of his features are still shown today and probably his most famous is the 1956 version of The Ten Com... Read More

Uncut Gems

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/9/2020 10:45 AM EDT
There are all kinds of people in this world… rich people, poor people, good people, religious people, selfish people, altruistic people, and downright douchebags. You know the type. The kind of person who uses anyone and everyone to get what they want and doesn't care who they step on along the way. Howard Ratner (Adam Sand... Read More

Dark Waters

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/2/2020 3:44 PM EDT
DuPont, a multi-billion-dollar company, has been creating products to make our lives better for decades…or so we had been led to believe. Teflon, their non-stick coating that covers pans in homes all over the world, used to be manufactured with PFOA – C8, a chemical that has been shown to be harmful to all life. It is estim... Read More

21 Bridges

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/18/2020 9:43 AM EDT
Director Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones) is known for television so he made an interesting choice with his feature film directorial debut and the outcome eludes to his past experiences. In 2019, he brought 21 Bridges, a police "procedural" starring Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) to theaters. The intense drama chronicles a polic... Read More

Swamp Thing

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/11/2020 9:03 AM EDT
In 1971 DC Comics introduced yet another creature/monster when writer Len Wein (Wolverine) created Swamp Thing who first appeared in House of Secrets #92. Since then there have been many iterations of the character including two feature films, a live-action television series, and an animated series. Last summer a new version was created... Read More