Movie Reviews, Digital HD Reviews, and Television Reviews

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.

Castle Rock The Complete Second Season

(Leonard Buccellato) 7/19/2020 9:19 PM EST
Warner Brothers home video presents the perfect reason to stay home and binge.This is what horror and suspenseful programming are about.From Stephen King and J.J, Abrams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), we are treated to an excellent follow-up, and in almost every aspect, a superior season.Something bad is, indeed, coming to town, and not a sing... Read More

Ghost

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/15/2020 10:49 AM EST
Oh my love, my darling, I've hungered for your touch…If you are over the age of forty, chances are you associate those lyrics with one particular scene in a 1990 film called Ghost. The love scene between Sam (Patrick Swayze; Dirty Dancing) and his wife Molly (Demi Moore; G.I. Jane) while sitting at a pottery wheel was loving, sensual, ... Read More

Braveheart

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/1/2020 12:00 PM EST
FFFRREEEEDDDOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!! That one word in an iconic scene made Braveheart a memorable movie. Released in 1995, the film earned director and star Mel Gibson (the Lethal Weapon series) two academy awards. The story is based on fictionalized tales of William Wallis, a Scottish patriot, and leader who defended his country against ... Read More

Pretty in Pink

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 6/16/2020 8:46 AM EST
If you were a teenager in the 1980s, there is no doubt you were in some way influenced by writer/director John Hughes. He wrote and sometimes directed hit movie after hit movie, dealing with those awkward high school years when one is trying to discover who they are and how they fit into this world. More often than not he tackled... Read More

Urban Cowboy

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 6/9/2020 3:53 PM EST
In the late 1970's John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) was riding high in Hollywood. He was part of a successful television show, Welcome Back, Kotter, and proved he could handle leading man status as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and Danny in the film adaptation of the musical, Grease. In 1980, he decided to star in another movie called... Read More

Disney's Zombies 2

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 6/4/2020 2:33 PM EST
Disney Channel has a long history of creating wonderful movies made for television despite still being considered to be in its relative youth as a channel. Always evolving, they had great success with 2006's High School Musical and its two sequels followed by Camp Rock and its sequel and then Descendants and its sequel (Disney is big on seque... Read More

Jaws

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 6/1/2020 6:05 PM EST
Forty-five years ago a twenty-six-year-old, up and coming director named Steven Spielberg (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial) took Peter Benchley's novel titled Jaws and made it into a major motion picture. Considered one of the greatest films of all time, it was the highest-grossing movie until the release of Star Wars two years later. A ... Read More

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 5/29/2020 11:49 AM EST
Almost thirty years ago, Midway games created Mortal Kombat, a Fantasy fighting game that paid homage to actor Jean-Claude Van Dam (Double Impact). Known for its high level of graphic violence, it not only became one of the highest-grossing gaming franchises of all time but also was the reason for the creation of the video game rating system,... Read More

Sonic The Hedgehog

(Maureen Buccellato) 5/19/2020 10:29 AM EST
Back in 1990, Sega decided to release their answer to Super Mario Brothers with a fast, little, blue hedgehog named Sonic. Of course, with all of the remakes and reboots coming out of Hollywood these days, it was only a matter of time before Sonic was brought to life in a live-action movie. Originally slated to be released in late 2019,... Read More

Flashdance

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 5/18/2020 5:36 PM EST
Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson produced some of the best films of the 1980s including Beverly Hills Cop and, arguably their most profitable film, Top Gun. However, their first producing collaboration came in 1983 when they worked on the critically panned but box office hit, Flashdance. Starring Jennifer Beals (Swamp Thing) in her feature f... Read More