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 critical reviews off upcoming films or programming, and even our take on the classsics from our critics Tomatometer-Approved Critic, Allison Rose.

Resident Evil The Complete Series

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/24/2020 2:08 PM EDT
The year was 1996 and video games had become a staple in many households. At that time, one of the more popular consoles on the market was (and still is) PlayStation. Capcom, a video game development company, decided to make a survival horror game where uninfected people had to fight against zombies and monsters after the pharmaceutical... Read More

The New Mutants

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/17/2020 2:14 PM EDT
In 1939 publisher Martin Goodman created Timely Publications, and twenty-two years later, thanks mainly to Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the legendary, Stan Lee, Marvel Comics was born. Two years after the first X-Men comic was published. Based on a group of "mutants" with supernatural powers, the X-Men were feared by humans ev... Read More

Westworld: Season 3: The New World

(Nathan M Rose) 11/16/2020 5:00 PM EDT
In 1973 a young Michael Crichton (way before Jurassic Park was ever written) made his directorial debut. The film called, Westworld, starred Yul Brynner (The Ten Commandments) and detailed what happened when robots in a futuristic adult theme park go crazy. Westworld had mediocre success, but in October 2016, the property was picked up by Jonathan ... Read More

Mallrats: 2-Disc 25th Anniversary Special Edition

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/16/2020 10:00 AM EDT
Kevin Patrick Smith (Clerks) was born and raised fifteen minutes from me in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and is a mere six months older than me (yet abundantly more financially successful). When his first feature film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, won two awards and later screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it c... Read More

The Last Dance

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/12/2020 3:15 PM EDT
The top athletes in almost any sport are revered all over the world. Their talent, their competitive spirit, their hard work, their strength and agility, and their mindset make them the best and they are celebrated for it. They are paid handsomely, and they become celebrities. Their goals are to play as long as possible and win of... Read More

Bill & Ted Face the Music

(Nathan M Rose) 11/9/2020 5:22 PM EDT
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 EDT
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 EDT
"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

Paramount Presents: The Haunting

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/21/2020 9:15 AM EDT
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 EDT
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