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Reviews By Nathan M Rose

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.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

(Nathan M Rose) 9/18/2018 9:55 AM EDT
In 1990 author Michael Crichton created a novel that would become a blueprint for an entire cinematic realm. Starting in 1993 the film world was changed with Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, followed up by Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World and now Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.Last time we left our prehistoric creat... Read More

Ocean's 8

(Nathan M Rose) 9/13/2018 8:13 AM EDT
In 2001, George Clooney and Brad Pitt led an all-star cast in Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, starring the "rat pack" which included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Clooney and Pitt followed the film up with a sequel, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and a third film, Ocean's Thirteen in 2007... Read More

Alpha

(Nathan M Rose) 8/16/2018 10:59 PM EDT
Every once in a while there comes a movie that tugs at your heartstrings and energizes your soul. Alpha is such a movie. Directed by Albert Hughes (From Hell, Menace II Society) it tells a stunning tale of loss, friendship, and courage after a young boy Kodi Smit-McPhee (X-Men: Apocalypse) is left for dead by his tribe and has to find his way... Read More

Rampage

(Nathan M Rose) 7/10/2018 10:09 AM EDT
A Man and his Ape are not soon parted. So when you take the biggest action star in the world, Dwayne Johnson (Skyscraper) and add a large albino ape as a sidekick you get movie theater gold.Rampage is the latest classic video game to get a big screen adaptation. The game was originally released in arcades in 1986 and then hit the home entertai... Read More

Death Wish

(Nathan M Rose) 6/15/2018 1:56 PM EDT
In 1974, Charles Bronson (The Great Escape) starred in Death Wish, a film based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. Now, 44 years later, Bruce Willis(Die Hard) has taken up the role of vigilante Paul Kersey in the remake of the film directed by Eli Roth (Hostel) available now on Blu-ray.Paul Kersey is a surgeon in Chicago (in the original novel Ke... Read More

Tomb Raider

(Nathan M Rose) 6/12/2018 1:48 PM EDT
Back in the 1990s, a little game called Tomb Raider, featuring a female "Indiana Jones" type character named Lara Croft, was introduced to the world. To help the game's appeal to the mostly male gaming audience, she was created with a large bosom and also used two guns versus a whip. The game proved to be a smash hit an... Read More

Die Hard

(Nathan M Rose) 5/21/2018 4:50 PM EDT
Back in the late 1980s, a little film called Die Hard, starring an unknown action star at the time whose only previous body of work was in comedy, came crashing onto the screen and the action genre has never been the same. Now, for its 30th Anniversary, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing the film like it has never been released b... Read More

Black Panther

(Nathan M Rose) 5/15/2018 7:50 AM EDT
In the 1960s, during the height of the civil rights movement, Marvel comics took a big chance and created a new superhero, Black Panther, from the nation of Wakanda. This land was a more technologically advanced nation than any on Earth. Over time, the character became of the most beloved in the Marvel Universe, and now, in 2018, he finally h... Read More

The Commuter

(Nathan M Rose) 4/17/2018 9:33 AM EDT
Have you ever commuted on a train back and forth to work every day? Have you ever watched your fellow commuters as you did? It is a fascinating study of human nature and one that writers Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi decided would make for a great script. As they saw the same people all the time on their commute in the northeast t... Read More

Justice League

(Nathan M Rose) 3/15/2018 8:11 AM EDT
In 2013, Director/Writer/Producer Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) re-envisioned the DC Universe with the release of Man of Steel. A new take on Superman featuring British actor Henry Cavill (Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible - Fallout), Synder continued his "world building" with follow-up films Batman v. Superman, ... Read More