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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.

Ballers: The Complete Third Season

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/10/2018 2:46 PM EST
HBO is known for quality television that engrosses audiences and keeps them coming back time and time again. The Sopranos, True Blood and Game of Thrones have all been award winners, just to name a few and the cable network has a strong history excellence in television. Occasionally they get a mildly entertaining series that has some ap... Read More

Push

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/10/2018 9:10 AM EST
Creatures with special abilities have been around in literature and films for a very long time. Beings that can transform or move objects with their minds or see the future are from the imaginations of some very creative people and they tend to fascinate audiences who are fixated on these ideas. They also offer a common theme of humans ... Read More

There's Always Vanilla

(Leonard Buccellato) 4/9/2018 5:02 PM EST
Hot on the heels of the game-changing, and now legendary, Night of the Living Dead, George and his production company, The Latent Image, set out to prove to Hollywood and the cinema world, at large, that they were capable of more, and so they released There's Always Vanilla AKA The Affair.Unlike almost all other Romero films, Vanilla is not a h... Read More

The Greatest Showman

(Judith Raymer) 4/9/2018 2:41 PM EST
Looking for a film to feed your musical sensibilities and soul that will also keep the younger "Mouseketeers" at your side engaged and entertained? Look no further than the circus! Socialites and royalty mingling with "freaks;" contemporary dance moves in period costumes; 20th Century dialogue and song from 19th Century characte... Read More

The Americans: The Complete Fifth Season

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/9/2018 8:45 AM EST
When one thinks of compelling television, one undoubtedly thinks of FX's The Americans. With the recent start of the sixth and final season, we are once again drawn into the dramatic world of international espionage disguised as normal suburban family life… Or is it the other way around? As we brokenheartedly await ... Read More

Legion: The Complete First Season

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/3/2018 10:26 AM EST
Supernatural beings seem to be everywhere in our entertainment media. They are taking over movie screens and televisions across the country. From monsters invading earth to superheroes saving it, there are a plethora of life forms for us to soak up. Marvel television brought another entity to its ever-expanding universe this past ... Read More

Father Figures

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/3/2018 9:20 AM EST
The 1970's were a wild time. Drugs, partying, and wild sex… it was rampant and everywhere. And Helen (Glenn Close; Damages) was a part of it all. She had multiple partners and wasn't quite sure which one of them could have fathered her twin boys, Kyle (Owen Wilson; Wedding Crashers) and Peter (Ed Helms;&nb... Read More

The Sandlot: 25th Anniversary Edition

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/30/2018 11:53 AM EST
There have been some great movies released in the last 25 years and several of them include a baseball theme. As "America's pastime" it is the quintessential vehicle with which to tell any number of stories including a coming of age tale set during the 1960's. On the surface, The Sandlot seems to be merely about some p... Read More

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/26/2018 4:55 PM EST
In the ever-continuing saga that is the Star Wars Universe, we were introduced to new characters in 2015 when the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuted. We met Kylo Ren (Adam Driver; Girls) who is the heir apparent to Darth Vader, Poe (Oscar Isaac; Ex Machina) who works for the rebellion, Finn (J... Read More

The Handmaid's Tale: Season 1

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/26/2018 4:00 PM EST
In 1985, Canadian author Margaret Atwood published her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. The controversial story is set in New England and focuses on Offred, a handmaid who is suppressed in a totalitarian Christian society that has overthrown the United States Government. While often banned over the past 30 plus years, the book ... Read More