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 critical reviews off upcoming films or programming, and even our take on the classsics from our critics Tomatometer-Approved Critic, Allison Rose.

Flora & Ulysses

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/17/2021 12:06 PM EDT
There is a saying in Hollywood – "Never work with children or animals". However, if you are cast in a Disney production, chances are you will probably work with one or the other or if you are really lucky, both. For Alyson Hannigan (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Ben Schwartz (Sonic The Hedgehog), the latter version becam... Read More

Bliss

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/4/2021 1:02 PM EDT
Bliss. Is defined as "perfect happiness, great joy" so as the saying goes…" ignorance is bliss". The concept behind that quote, in an odd sort of way, is that what we don't know makes us happy, because we are unaware of what we are missing out on in life. If we did, we might wish we had more. However, wh... Read More

Palmer

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/29/2021 12:05 AM EDT
"Family is who you make it". With a tagline like that, you get somewhat of a sense of what the latest Fisher Stevens' (Short Circuit) film, Palmer, is all about. And yet, the movie offers so much more than just a typical family drama. Predictable at points, Palmer radiates with emotion which keeps the audience yearning f... Read More

Season One, Episode One

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/27/2021 7:34 PM EDT
If there was a trivia question about an actor with a familiar face who has been in tons of movies but whose name people always seem to forget, the answer would inevitably be Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada). Second place, however, would go to the 49-year-old actor – Alan Tudyk (Firefly). Tudyk, much like Tucci, has been in ov... Read More

WandaVision

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 1/14/2021 12:08 PM EDT
Disney+ streaming service is set to debut WandaVision releasing the first two, of nine thirty-minute, episodes on Friday.When Avengers: Endgame finally made its way into theaters in the Spring of 2019 fans had mixed reactions. While they had waited ten years for the culmination of the twenty-three-movie saga and were excited to see how it wou... Read More

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