DirkFlix

Dirk watches movies. Then he writes about them.

Monday, May 25, 2026

Welcome To DirkFlix!

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UPDATED 4/1/2025: Completely revised the When To See scale to reflect the extinction of rental stores and 2nd run dollar show theaters in t...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

"Normal" Review

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The improbably late-life transformation of Bob Odenkirk into an action star even less plausible than Liam Neeson continues with Normal , an ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

"The Crash" Review

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In 2022, on a pre-dawn morning in a suburb of Cleveland, OH, a Toyota Corolla traveling nearly 100 mph sailed through a T-intersection and i...
Friday, May 15, 2026

"Marty: Life Is Short" Review

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 There's been a glut of documentaries recently examining various comedic performers like Steve Martin and Mel Brooks (whose two-part doc...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

"Balls Up" Review

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On paper,  Balls Up , the latest Amazon Prime Video Original has a solid comedic pedigree as it's written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wern...
Friday, May 1, 2026

"Nirvanna The Band The Song The Movie" Review

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 I am totally unfamiliar with the Canuckian web series  Nirvanna the Band the Show  which ran from 2007-2009 and only got hipped to  Nirvann...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

"They Will Kill You" Review

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 For the first 10 minutes or so of They Will Kill You  I was wondering what the heck was going on? It opens with a woman, Asia (Zazie Beetz,...

"Project Hail Mary" Review

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 It's been 10-1/2 months since we've actually gone to the movies to see a movie ( Ballerina ) and considering I missed out on proper...
Friday, April 17, 2026

"Billy Idol Should Be Dead" Review

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 Billy Idol was announced as an inductee to the grievously-misnamed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with fellow rockers Sade and Wu-Tang ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

"Pretty Lethal" Review

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Due to the way Prime Video lays out their virtual shelves, it's easy to miss what's available like the Amazon Original Pretty Lethal...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

"The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel" 4K Review

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The little-known formative years of the members of punk-funk-rap-rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers are given the documentary treatment in the Ne...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

"Paul McCartney: Man on the Run" Review

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 If I had to pick a favorite Beatle it'd be Paul McCartney because he was the most pop sensible member of the Fab Four. While not a Beat...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

"Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" 4K Review

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There aren't as many Hulu Original movies as Netflix churns out - the last one I reviewed was the disappointing Samara Weaving caper fli...
Friday, March 27, 2026

"Send Help" Review

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In the past two decades, Michigan's own Sam Raimi, who started with low budget cult classics like Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness , and Da...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

"Scream 7" Review

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 It's weird to realize that fans of the original 1996 Scream  could be grandparents with grandchildren almost old enough to watch these ...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

"Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" Review

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 People complain that movies are just sequels, remakes/reboots, and formulaic twaddle, but all too often when something truly unique makes i...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

"War Machine" 4K Review

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 Time for this week's disposable Netflix Original movie, War Machine , starring Alan Ritchson (Amazon Prime's Reacher ) as an Army S...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" 4K Review

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 I've been unimpressed by the  28 Days/Weeks/Years Later  series. 2002's  28 Days Later  (no written review, but 4/10, Skip it score...
Friday, February 20, 2026

"Mercy" 4K Review

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Mercy  is one of those direct-to-streaming type movies which apparently got a brief theatrical run before it eventually drops onto Amazon Pr...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

"Primate" Review

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January is traditionally a dumping ground for movies studios have little faith in and horror programmers. Sometimes you get a gem like M3GAN...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

"Aliens Expanded" Review

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 James Cameron's 1986 magnum opus Aliens  was his announcement to the universe that The Terminator  wasn't a fluke and he was going ...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

"The Housemaid" Review

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Depending on whether you want to love or hate Paul Feig, he's either the creator of the cult fave TV series Freaks & Geeks  (which l...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

"Anaconda (2025)" 4K Review

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 I've never seen the original 1997 Anaconda  so I had no nostalgia or foreknowledge of whatever meta humor the 2025 reboot/reimagining/p...
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