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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.
 
(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/29/2019 5:10 PM EDT There have been numerous television shows and movies that involve airplanes. Some of them, including Wings and Airplane!, were humorous others held a more dramatic slant, i.e. Lost or Air Force One. In most cases, these stories involved action taking place on an airplane or in an airport and in the case of the dramatic offers often... Read More |
 
(Maureen Buccellato) 7/26/2019 4:28 PM EDT Laika Studio, who brought us, Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings, has brought us another impressive feature titled Missing Link, starring the voices of Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover series) and Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman). The film hit theaters in April of 2019 and now you can own this title on Blu-ray.An ex... Read More |
(Maureen Buccellato) 7/26/2019 12:00 PM EDT Alita: Battle Angel is a film that was a long time in the making. James Cameron first read Yukito Kishiro's Manga, Gunnm, twenty years ago. He wanted to make this into a film but due to his "Avatar" projects, "Alita" was put on the back burner. As time went on Cameron knew that he just couldn't fit the film in... Read More |
(Maureen Buccellato) 7/24/2019 10:47 PM EDT Hellboy first came onto the scene in 1993 with the release of the San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 and has gone on to make appearances in various film and tv projects including 2004's Hellboy and 2008's Hellboy II: The Golden Army, both starring Ron Perlman. In May 2017, it was announced that a reboot to the franchise would take... Read More |
(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/24/2019 9:35 AM EDT In less than a year we have had two vastly different but very good musical biopics. Bohemian Rhapsody gave us some vague insight into the world of the Band Queen and its lead singer, Freddy Mercury (Rami Malek; Mr. Robot) while Rocketman offered a grittier and more fantastical view of the legend that is Elton John (Taron Egerton; Kingsman: Th... Read More |
(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/15/2019 10:53 PM EDT The year was 1964 and DC Comics introduced a group made up of young superhero sidekicks including, Kid Flash, Robin, and Aqualad. Not long after Wonder girl was added and these junior superheroes became the Teen Titans. Over the next fifty-five years, there have been numerous iterations of this group and this past year the DC Universe b... Read More |
(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/9/2019 12:11 PM EDT Gotham City - the home of Batman - was introduced in DC comics in December 1940. It has remained a staple of the "Bat" world ever since and in 2014 it once again became the backdrop for a new television series on fox aptly titled, Gotham. On January 3, 2019, the fifth and final season debuted to try and wrap up half a decade of chao... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 7/8/2019 10:29 PM EDT In 1983, Stephen King (The Shining) came out with one of his most memorable and terrifying books that are still talked about to this day, Pet Sematary. In 1989 a film was released by Paramount Pictures with the screenplay written by King himself. While most critics panned it at the time, it became a box office success and even got a sequel, now 20 ... Read More |
(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/8/2019 11:27 AM EDT If you look up the description of a black hole you while find -- "a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape". It's a massive void of nothing at the far reaches of outer space that holds immense energy. What if humankind could harvest that energy and use it to power our eve... Read More |
(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/4/2019 7:18 PM EDT Baseball - America's pastime - was created in Cooperstown, NY in 1839. Since that time there have countless movies surrounding or inspired by the game. There have been stories about triumph against all odds or heartwarming tales about family bonds or neighborhood kids playing in a vacant lot. Some of the films are dramas while ot... Read More |
