Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell

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Flicks features a weekly film review focused on new independent releases and old classics. Your host The Film Snob only talks about movies he loves – and hopes you’ll enjoy, too.

Chris Dashiell knows movies, and he knows what he likes. Listen every week as he highlights films old and new.


255 Pieces

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There’s a sports metaphor I’ve heard used, in basketball mostly, when they say that a player is “in a zone.” Every shot seems to go in; whenever th...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:56
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Vicky Krieps shines in her latest role, as a wife and mother who abandons her family for mysterious reasons.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:26
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A 9-year-old girl is sent away from her abusive family to live with an older couple, who try to break through her fear and silence to let some love...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:47
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The life story of a donkey, and his experiences under different human owners, is depicted to expand our ideas of what subjective life is to include...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:34
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A mass incident of abuse by men in a religious community causes the women in that community to gather and talk, so they can decide what to do about...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:27
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The latest magical realist epic from Alejandro G. Iñárritu portrays the inner life of a Mexican filmmaker, and the struggles he must go through for...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:31
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The story of the radical art photographer Nan Goldin, and how she led a movement against the Sackler family, the billionaires who pushed OxyContin.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:31
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A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
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Brendan Fraser plays a morbidly obese teacher who is facing imminent death while trying to reconcile with his angry teenage daughter.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:21
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Fritz Lang’s 1931 crime picture remains one of the greatest depictions of social rot ever put on film.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:32
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Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland for this tale of contagious madness between two friends falling out.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:32
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Ours is an age of migrants, those martyred by the legal fictions we call borders. Two recent films explore this persistent, troubling experience.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 03:31
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Frank Capra’s parable about goodness versus the tyranny of profit bombed on its original release, but then gradually gained classic status with lat...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
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Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s provocative 1985 novel satirizes the stressful chaos and insanity of American life.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 07:08
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A drama of a woman unjustly ostracized reveals deeper meanings, in a breakthrough work of Mexican cinema.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:26
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The painful struggles between parents and children are often a subject of drama, and no surprise, given the plentiful examples of this theme in hum...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:34
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It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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The cinematic world is abuzz with praise for the latest film from Korean director Park Chan-wook entitled Decision to Leave. Park is already well k...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:30
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The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:28