FlickDirect is your premiere source for movie news, movie reviews, movie merchandise, movie show times, and so much more! This feed contains the latest Film and Movie reviews from our FlickDirect staff, so subscribe today and get your daily movie fix! http://www.flickdirect.com/ en-us info@flickdirect.com (FlickDirect Editor) info@flickdirect.com (FlickDirect Webmaster) © 2010 FlickDirect, Inc Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:43 EST 320 http://www.flickdirect.com/images/flickdirect-logo.gif http://www.flickdirect.com/ http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=294 I have to admit that the trailers confused me. There seemed to be a video-game element to the film, and I knew that at least part of it took place in an amusement park. I wondered if it was similar to a virtual-reality game with the chara... Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:47 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=294 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=293 Sunshine is a British science fiction film showing the sun is starting to die. A team of astronauts is sent with a massive bomb to try to reignite it. For a movie that focuses its energy on being smart, this sounds pretty dumb. How can an... Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:38 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=293 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=292 Tim Burton was probably the guy to make it! In in his prime, he created fiercely creative works that mixed a somewhat grim vision with fairy-tale sensibilities. His artistic vision that is available in released stills made this appar... Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:00 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=292 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=291 Sometimes movies come and go in the theater within a blink of an eye. This was such the case with Law Abiding Citizen. Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion... Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:05 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=291 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=290 One of 2010's most anticipated films, Alice In Wonderland, arrives in theaters this Friday, March 5th. Directed by Tim Burton, this new Alice In Wonderland film has Alice returning to Wonderland as a 19-year-old, reuniting with her childhood... Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:53 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=290 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=289 Kevin Smith, normally known for his quirky comedy ventures into the buddy cop genre in 2010 with Cop Out. Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia... Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:32 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=289 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=288 After it was established that Harry Potter was wildly popular, one would speculate someone was dispatched to the children's section of the bookstore to see what else they could option. Certainly, the formula is pretty well established: take... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:32 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=288 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=287 The concept behind FlashForward is that in the near future, on or around October, the whole world blacks out for exactly two minutes and seventeen seconds at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time. During the blackout, almost everyone envisions the... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:04 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=287 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=286 On February 23, 2010, Miramax will be releasing "Everybody's Fine" on DVD. With a star-studded cast (Robert DeNiro, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, and Sam Rockwell), this movie was nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globes... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:00 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=286 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=285 Out on Blu-Ray from 20th Century Fox is Amelia, the story of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The story mainly covers Amelia briefly before she is selected to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic (but as ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:53 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=285 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=284 Universal, the studio that created such horror classic's as the Mummy, the Wolfman, and Dracula are in remake mode again with 2010's "The Wolfman". "The Wolfman" brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Osc... Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:42 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=284 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=283 It is that time of year again when the studios drop all of their films that they feel will not make it during the competitive box office seasons of spring, summer or fall. However, once in a while a film comes along that catches every... Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:46 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=283 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=282 Created by John Wells (ER, The West Wing, Third Watch), Christopher Chulack (ER, Third Watch) and Ann Biderman (Public Enemies, Hill Street Blues), Southland:The Complete First Season follows the complicated lives of the dedicated LAPD officers and d... Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:15 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=282 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=281 When I saw the trailer for Surrogates in the theater, I became interested. It was a Bruce Willis sci-fi where people could wear artificial bodies that were their avatars throughout the day. I wondered if it was thoughtful or just an act... Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:45 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=281 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=280 Considering that Frame was just re-made, this is a timely point for a Blu-Ray release of the 1980 hit musical because it is now an oldie classic. Viewers who think they vaguely remember it will probably recall the spin-off TV show and the ... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:10 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=280 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=279 Alien, now three decades old, still sets the standard for sci-fi horror. We can see that in Pandorum 's opening scenes when Dennis Quaid "slooowly" comes out of hyper-sleep. As with Alien, to which Pandorum owes more than a... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:26 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=279 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=278 When Glee first came on earlier this year it was preceded with one of the biggest marketing pushes for a TV show I'd ever seen. There were posters everywhere, commercials every ten minutes and a pilot that aired months before the show even prem... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:46 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=278 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=277 Paul Thomas Anderson's epic, Magnolia features an ensemble cast (Tom Cruise, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, and others) who share interlocking lives in a Byzantine plot. Magnolia takes 188 minutes to be delivered, and ends in a wholly unexplain... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:08 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=277 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=276 I read The Road and determined from the reviews that the reasonably well made, fairly faithful movie version was simply not at the top of my to-do list. I think it was Slate's headline: 'Prepare to be bludgeoned' that made me go feel that... Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:35 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=276 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=275 Fringe seems to be JJ Abram's answer to The X-Files . The lessons from the X-Files were: (a) if you have FBI agents with chemistry, you have the basis for a science fiction show, and (b) if you have no idea where you are going and string ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:55 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=275 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=274 In 1999, a quirky little comedy based on Shakespeare's, Taming of The Shrew, entitled 10 Things I Hate About You, hit the theaters. At that time, a very unknown Heath Ledger started along side Julia Stiles in this comedic romance. It was about Padua ... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:12 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=274 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=273 Writer Diablo Cody, after the critically acclaimed success of Juno, decided to do a 180 for her next project, and dabbled in the occult with Jennifer's Body. Harkening back-to-black comedies of the past sexy temptress Megan Fox ( Transformer... Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:56 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=273 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=272 Ten years after showing what it is like working at a white collar-job in America, Mike Judge is back with Extract, a humorous look inside the world of blue-collar workers. Extract follows the life of the owner and employees of a flavor extract factor... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:23 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=272 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=271 It turns out you can not count James Cameron out. It appeared kind of telling that the trailers for the movie had to tell you who this guy was and why we should care. The likely 20-something targets for the movi... Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:30 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=271 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=270 The Hangover was an unexpectedly funny "guy" movie, featuring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis, as three guys who take their friend and the groom (Justin Bartha) to Vegas for a bachelor party. However, the party goes... Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=270