Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

Here at FlickDirect, our goal is to provide up-to-date reviews on theatrical, home entertainment, and television series. Check out the reviews of upcoming films or programming, and even our take on the classsics.

Where The Wild Things Are

Marco Chacon | Oct 18, 2009

The 1963 book is 10 sentences long, and it is a classic. The story is about the island where the child, Max, goes after being sent to bed without supper because he was out of control in the hous...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Proposal

Nathan M Rose | Oct 14, 2009

The year 2009's summer movie season was full of killer robots from the future, Full Review | Grade: A

Life on Mars

Marco Chacon | Oct 07, 2009

The show could have been one of my all time favorites, because this was a near-perfect bull's eye for the target market of its kind of strangeness -- I am not kidding! The story is fascinating; a...

Full Review | Grade: C

Gamer

Nathan M Rose | Sep 07, 2009

Gamer is one of those movies that you either love or hate. Online gaming takes on new meaning in a futuristic world. In that world, players at home can direct convicts to do their bidding...

Full Review | Grade: B

Sons of Anarchy Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

Sons of Anarchy Season One

Marco Chacon | Sep 01, 2009

In a world where we have an HBO and Showtime series that can give us real street language, actual sex, and off the charts violence, it takes some extra effort to make a crime drama that can actua...

Full Review | Grade: A

Adventureland

Eric English | Aug 25, 2009

Adventureland will appeal mostly to a more mature, yet still slightly adolescent crowd (age 21-34) and would make for a good date movie.

Full Review | Grade: B

Supernatural Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

Supernatural Season Four

Nathan M Rose | Aug 25, 2009

One glaring omission from this year's Supernatural is the use of classic rock ‘n roll that has become almost a character on the show.

Full Review | Grade: A

Inglourious Basterds

Marco Chacon | Aug 24, 2009

Quentin Tarantino may be the only guy I can think of to have created his own genre. When you say it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, people pretty much know what you are talking about. That,...

Full Review | Grade: A

Shorts

Roger Longenbach | Aug 23, 2009

One of my biggest complaints with Hollywood in the last decade has been the lack of new ideas. More and more we're seeing remakes of classic movies -most of the time they're not that great,...

Full Review | Grade: B

District 9

Marco Chacon | Aug 16, 2009

In 1966, the apartheid government forcibly relocated 60,000 people from District 6 in Cape Town. Today we see a science fiction analogue of that in the 2009 movie District 9 by Neill Blomkamp....

Full Review | Grade: A