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.

To Catch a Thief

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/23/2020 12:22 PM EDT
Over one hundred years ago, film producer, Adolph Zukor, took 22 actors and actresses and gave them contracts to work for him and his partners Daniel and Charles Frohman. Originally called Famous Players Film Company, it later became Paramount Pictures or simply, Paramount. They have one of the highest-grossing films of all time, Titani... Read More

The Gentlemen

(Alyn Darnay) 4/21/2020 10:11 AM EDT
At long last director Guy Richie is back in the territory he knows best - the harsh, talky, violent, clever, funny, sexy, entertaining, and ever ‘British Cool' of Cockney London's underworld. It's a post-modern English pulp fiction gem of a film, presented in a way that only a master of the sub-genre can bring it to the screen; and I'm glad t... Read More

Like a Boss

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/20/2020 5:33 PM EDT
Ever since 2011's Bridesmaids came to theaters a new "sub-genre" has consistently made its way to the big screen. These female based, raunchy, friendship, women's empowerment movies have been popping up with great casts and usually some funny and memorable moments. In 2017, Girls Trip brought together four talented women and... Read More

V: The Final Battle

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/14/2020 9:20 AM EDT
As fans, we can be passionate and overzealous about our favorite shows/movies/music/etc. Just look at all the social media posts about Netflix's sensational documentary, Tiger King. Everyone is talking about this show and if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for? Well, Back in 1983 and 1984 colleagues stood aro... Read More

Just Mercy

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/31/2020 11:20 AM EDT
In 1985 Bryan Stevenson graduated from Harvard Law School and instead of going to work in a fancy law firm, making lots of money and working 80 hours a week, he chose to work for the Southern Center for Human Rights. After federal funding for that program was cut he decided to create the non-profit EJI=Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, ... Read More

Dolittle

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/27/2020 8:39 AM EDT
In 1920 English author Hugh Lofting published the first of fifteen children's books entitled The Story of Doctor Dolittle. The books chronicle the life of a doctor who decides to forgo treating human patients for animals, with whom he can converse. The popular series based in the 1800's has been adapted for the big screen severa... Read More

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

(Eric English) 3/25/2020 4:17 PM EDT
Hardly an introduction is needed. When you are suddenly surrounded by the first triumphant notes of its iconic theme song followed by its inwardly scrolling vertical marquee you already know where you are being transported. To a different universe filled with exotic alien creatures, heroic stories of the past written in an epic war between good and... Read More

The Grudge

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/23/2020 10:26 AM EDT
In 1998, while in film school, Takashi Shimizu created; a series of short horror films called Ju-On or "Curse Grudge". They became popular in Japan and in 2004 a version, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) was produced for American cinema. It was followed by The Grudge 2 In 2006 and a third installment that wa... Read More

Jumanji: The Next Level

(Alyn Darnay) 3/22/2020 7:54 PM EDT
Can you hear the drums beating? Is your pulse racing? Are you slowly being drawn molecule by molecule into another universe? The answer is yes and you're off on another adventure inside the mysterious game called "Jumanji". The question is will you survive long enough to solve another quest and get back out?!Jumanji is back and it has add... Read More

Spies in Disguise

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/17/2020 6:49 PM EDT
Every winter holiday season there are a number of movies that come out so families can head to the theater and enjoy their break from work/school. There are action movies, blockbusters, and of course family-friendly fare that includes animated features. In 2019 Twentieth Century Fox joined the myriad of studios releasing films with their anim... Read More