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

Birth of a Natiaon

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/17/2017 8:23 PM EDT
Slavery in this country has been the fodder of major motion pictures since the epic drama Roots aired on television in the 1970's. The injustice befallen on African Americans has fascinated and horrified us and has been depicted in graphic detail on occasion. While the stories have been told time and time again, it seems we ca... Read More

Keeping Up With The Joneses

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/17/2017 11:05 AM EDT
Spy movies are generally very popular and well received in this country, especially when there is a team of spies. Some are serious films, while others are meant to be comedies or parodies. In 2005, we got spies in suburbia (and real life drama) with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. This year, we once again see espionage come to the world of s... Read More

Sherlock: Season Four

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/16/2017 9:30 PM EDT
Sherlock is an U.K. production starting Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr. Strange) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) as Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr. John H. Watson. Quite possibility being the last series (we hope not) in this show, due to the actors very busy outside schedule, Series 4 brings more emotion, more mystery closer to home than ev... Read More

The Girl On The Train

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/16/2017 3:02 PM EDT
When Universal Studios wants to pick a book to develop into one of the best thriller-mystery movies of the year, they go to Paula Hawkins and create a screenplay and movie of the same name as the book and present it to the audience with twists and turns at every moment of the film. The Girl On The Train is an unpredictable story that will keep... Read More

Live By Night

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/11/2017 10:25 AM EDT
Step back into time to a prolific era when men returned from The Great War and lost themselves, where life was easy, alcohol was for the back rooms, speakeasies were the thing to do, and the Irish and Italian Mobs ran the country. Live By Night transports you back into a time that has gone by the wayside- a glorious, relaxing time full of... Read More

Girls: The Complete Fifth Season

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/9/2017 9:25 PM EDT
Home Box Office has continually been synonymous with outstanding televisions series almost from the time they started producing them, and they show no signs of slowing down now. Case in point, the series Girls, about to start it's sixth season in February, has been nominated and won numerous awards over the past 5 years. The ... Read More

Underworld: Blood Wars

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/6/2017 7:04 AM EDT
Why are we so fascinated by vampires and werewolves? Movies and television shows about them are incredibly popular regardless if they are good or not. The Underworld franchise incorporates both of these supernatural characters in a battle for ultimate domination and for 2017 a brand new film continues the war. Underworld... Read More

The Disappointments Room

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/5/2017 9:39 PM EDT
In the early 1900's, the aristocracy of this country were ashamed of their physically and mentally ill children. They created secret rooms in their homes to hide away their less than perfect offspring, never allowing them to see the outside nor interact with other people. These rooms were called the disappointments room and they we... Read More

A Monster Calls

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/5/2017 5:06 PM EDT
The purpose of a movie is to tell a story and to entertain the audience. A Monster Calls is the epitome of a story with a deep meaning, one with a lesson, or two, and one with such emotion that there isn't a dry eye left in the theater or a sound emitting from the audience by the time the credits roll.Conor McGuire (Lewis MacDou... Read More

Hidden Figures

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/4/2017 7:17 PM EDT
It's not easy being smart. It's even harder being smart and being a female. It was very hard being smart and being a female in 1961, but it was awful being smart, female and Negro in 1961. However, Katherine Goble- Johnson (Taraji Henson; Empire), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer; The Help) and Mary J... Read More