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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 classics.
 
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/21/2016 11:42 AM EDT What if all those cult religions that believe aliens are coming to save them were right? What if there was something else out there? What if some of them lived amongst us and we never even knew it? Midnight Special explores this idea, along with the thought that a little boy can be more than he seems and the government knows more ... Read More |
 
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/21/2016 10:50 AM EDT The horror genre has evolved from what it was back in the 1970's and 80's, with icon films like Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. I'm not sure that evolution is for the better, because even though graphics and special effects have advanced,the plots, scares and goriness haven't necessarily improv... Read More |
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/16/2016 10:39 AM EDT In 2003, a little fish named Nemo (Hayden Rolence; Cicero in Winter) mesmerized the world. With his bad fin, overbearing father and adventurous spirit, he captivated us into wishing him home. Along for that journey was his father, Marlin (Albert Brooks; Broadcast News) and a forgetful fish named Dory (Ellen DeGe... Read More |
 
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/15/2016 9:51 AM EDT Director Ridley Scott (Alien) is notorious for lengthy feature films. His movies tend to run over two hours and, originally, his latest feature, The Martian, was closer to three. The theatrical version was edited down to two hours and twenty four minutes and some felt even that was too long. Now Twentieth Century Fox Home En... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 06/13/2016 10:40 PM EDT In 2013, two films came out within six months of each other about the United States White House being taken over by terrorists and the President taken hostage. One film succeeded; one didn't. And, in the wake of box office success, a sequel was green lit for Olympus Has Fallen entitled London Has Fallen.Following in the footsteps of Olympus Has... Read More |
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/13/2016 10:24 PM EDT So many times when you see a movie or television show about Major League sports, there is a common theme running throughout...Babes, Booze and Bling. HBO's hit series, Ballers, has plenty of all three, plus something extra thrown in.Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson; Furious 7) was a world class football play... Read More |
(Sean Ferguson) 06/10/2016 10:46 AM EDT Welcome to Zootopia, Walt Disney's 55th animated feature,which will be released this week on BluRay, DVD and Digital download. Zootopia is all about a world where humans didn't exist. Animals evolved upright on 2 feet, wear clothes and have jobs. They live as humans do. Not really the most original idea, but there was a ton of thought as ... Read More |
 
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/09/2016 10:24 PM EDT Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights) and Edgar "Eddie" Garcia (How to Make It in America) sat down one day with Writer/Director Ian Edelman and brainstormed ideas. The Childhood friends wanted to make a feature film together and just needed the right vehicle. Hence, Puerto Ricans in Paris was born.Luis and Eddie are New York City cops ... Read More |
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/09/2016 9:33 AM EDT Who doesn't love magic? The sleight of hand. The trick of the eye. The elaborate showmanship meant to distract the unsuspecting, naïve spectator. It's fantasy and theatrics that has people the world over delighting in the grandeur of it all.There have been any number of movies where magic serves as the backdrop to drama and suspens... Read More |
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 06/07/2016 10:25 PM EDT "My name is Kunta Kinte". I had just turned six years old when Roots became a television event so, even though I had never seen it, I knew what that phrase meant. For almost forty years it meant courage, spirit and hope for an entire race of people. And now, as the History Channel airs a retelling of Alex Haely's classic... Read More |