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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.

Bill & Ted Face the Music

(Nathan M Rose) 11/9/2020 5:22 PM EST
In the mid-1980s Comedians Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon started doing a stand-up routine in which they played two, bodacious dudes called Bill & Ted. The stand-up was such a hit that they went on to create a film in 1989 entitled Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, which both kids, teenagers, and teachers alike got behind.The movie immediate... Read More

Antebellum

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/2/2020 10:51 PM EST
The more things change…the more they stay the same. There was a time in the United States when African Americans were seen as property instead of human beings. A time when the northern states and the southern ones disagreed about slave ownership which ultimately led to war. There are some who still hold these beliefs today,... Read More

V For Vendetta

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/2/2020 12:56 PM EST
"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot". So begins the John Milton (Paradise Lost) poem about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes, along with a group of fellow soldiers, decided to assassinate King James I by blowing up P... Read More

Once Upon A Snowman

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/22/2020 10:06 AM EST
It's hard to believe it has only been seven years since we were introduced to Elsa (Idina Menzel; Rent), Anna (Kristen Bell; The Good Place), Kristoff (Jonathan Groff; Hamilton: An American Musical), and Olaf (Josh Gad; Beauty and the Beast) in Disney's blockbuster, animated film, Frozen. In a short time, the franchise has grown to epic propo... Read More

The Witches

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/21/2020 12:00 PM EST
When one hears the name Roald Dahl, one generally thinks of the collection of children's stories he wrote. Dahl usually made the protagonists children with adults portrayed as villains. However, there always seemed to be one adult who was a kind soul that helped the children defeat their enemies.Since Dahl was such a descriptive wr... Read More

Paramount Presents: The Haunting

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/21/2020 9:15 AM EST
While Shirley Jackson (The Lottery) may have lacked quantity in her writing, she certainly made up for it in quality. Regarded as a prolific author, she created images that terrified her readers while conversely drawing them into her made-up worlds. In 1959 Viking published Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House, which is consi... Read More

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/19/2020 8:24 PM EST
Back in the early 2000s, AMC (originally American Movie Classics) aired mostly…you guessed it, old movies. However, by the latter half of the decade, they were experimenting with some original programming. In January of 2008, they furthered their ambition by airing a new show called Breaking Bad. It immediately generated "bu... Read More

Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/19/2020 12:39 PM EST
If you were a teenager in the 1980's you should definitely remember what movie this line is from…" Are you telling me you built a time machine…out of a DeLorean?" Amazingly, it was thirty-five years ago when the first Back to the Future movie screeched into theaters at 88 miles per hour. Four years later the ... Read More

2 Hearts

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/15/2020 9:41 AM EST
In the last thirty years, advances in technology have enhanced the lives of most of the world's population in various ways. We now have faster and better ways to communicate, more advanced forms of transportation, and medical science has been able to find cures or treatments for many ailments, so people are now living longer than in the p... Read More

Honest Thief

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/14/2020 10:23 AM EST
There is a saying that starts, "the love of a good woman…", which makes one wonder what is it that love could do. Could it heal a sick person? Could it turn someone evil? Or perhaps it could make someone change their illegal ways and want to become a better person. The thought is a noble one, but could it really happen?... Read More