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.
Just Mercy
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/31/2020 11:20 AM EST 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 EST 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 EST 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 EST 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 EST 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 EST 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 |
Richard Jewell
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/17/2020 4:39 PM EST There is a problem in this country when someone is even vaguely accused of a crime. Law enforcement and the media seem to convict the suspected perpetrator, sometimes with little to no real evidence. The media also add fuel to the fire in the court of public opinion and so often people believe what they say without question. If yo... Read More |
The Ten Commandments
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/10/2020 4:25 PM EST Cecil B. DeMille is known as a founding father of American film and the most commercially successful producer-director in all of film history. He made seventy feature films both silent and with sound and he will never be forgotten. Some of his features are still shown today and probably his most famous is the 1956 version of The Ten Com... Read More |
A Quiet Place
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/10/2020 9:42 AM EST We've all heard the sayings "silence is golden" or silence is a virtue" but in A Quiet Place, silence is lifesaving. Imagine not being able to make a sound at all…ever. If you do the consequences could be deadly. Imagine being a child living in constant fear or the parents of those children trying to keep the... Read More |
Uncut Gems
![]() (Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/9/2020 10:45 AM EST There are all kinds of people in this world… rich people, poor people, good people, religious people, selfish people, altruistic people, and downright douchebags. You know the type. The kind of person who uses anyone and everyone to get what they want and doesn't care who they step on along the way. Howard Ratner (Adam Sand... Read More |
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