Movie Reviews, Digital HD Reviews, and Television Reviews

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 Roten Tomoatoes Approved, Allison Rose.

Locked Down

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/13/2021 12:06 PM EDT
This past year has been a trying experience under the best of circumstances. Families stuck together 24/7 for weeks at a time. It could drive anyone crazy as little quirks that were once "cute" are now a thorn in the rest of the family's side. However, what if you were trapped in a London flat with your significant other w... Read More

The Midnight Sky

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 12/23/2020 7:40 PM EDT
In 2016 Random House published the first novel by author Lily Brooks-Dalton entitled Good Morning, Midnight. Fast forward four years and, in the middle of a global pandemic, the film adaptation, The Midnight Sky, is being released by Netflix. With a limited theatrical run beginning on December 11, 2020, the streaming service decided to ... Read More

Greenland

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 12/17/2020 11:10 PM EDT
There has been no shortage of Hollywood movies that depict the end of the world and this month sees two more are sheading to theaters and streaming services. While one displays the devastation caused by all-out nuclear war, the other, entitled Greenland, shows what can happen when fragments of a comet hurdle towards and crash into earth. &nbs... Read More

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 12/17/2020 12:38 PM EDT
Gertrude Pridgett was born in April 1886 in Georgia…or, if you believe the 1900 census, she was born in 1882 in Alabama. Regardless, despite her humble and uneventful beginnings, Gertrude would go on to become known as Ma Rainey (Viola Davis; Suicide Squad) a.k.a. the "Mother of the Blues". She recorded music with the b... Read More

Wolfwalkers

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 12/11/2020 12:14 AM EDT
In an age of Pixar/Disney/Illuminations computer-drawn animation, it's difficult to imagine "old school" hand-drawn feature films. They are time-consuming and one wrong stroke of a pen could mean throwing out a drawing and starting all over again. They also don't have the same level of precision or coloring that a comp... Read More

Godmothered

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 12/2/2020 12:59 PM EDT
Fairytales…they tend to start off with "once upon a time", end with "…and they lived happily ever after", and include at least one magical, fairy godmother. Most little girls get the idea of a handsome prince sweeping them off their feet and their very own fairy godmother transforming them into beautiful prin... Read More

Mank

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 12/1/2020 9:26 AM EDT
Citizen Kane is arguably one of the best movies ever made. Released in 1941, it was a critical success and has gone on to be included on a number of "the best films of all time" lists. As Orson Welles' feature film directorial debut, Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Academy Awards but won only one of the nine, best original... Read More

The Last Vermeer

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/19/2020 10:24 AM EDT
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch artist who lived in the middle of the 1600s. While alive, he gained a certain level of regional success but, due to his expensive paint supplies and having a family of eleven children, he died in 1675 leaving his family with a mountain of debt.Henricus Antonius "Han" Van Meegeren was born almost three ce... Read More

The Last Vermeer

(Alyn Darnay) 11/18/2020 10:11 AM EDT
Just when you think every interesting story about WWII has been told and retold, along comes another, and this one as compelling as any that came before. "The Last Vermeer", is a tale of mystery, of Art Fraud, and the weeding out of Nazi collaboration at the end of the war. It's also a gripping courtroom drama with twist after twist and a... Read More

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/17/2020 12:26 AM EDT
Star Wars is so much more than just a series of films produced over four decades. It is a multi-million-dollar franchise and a culture all its own. It has nine core movies, numerous spin-off films, cartoons, toys, books, television series, videogames, dolls and so much more. Lego toys are almost three decades older than the Star W... Read More