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.
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When realism comes together with lyricism, you have the makings of a great film. We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, manages to achieve tha...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 04:09
In 1917, a tragic and criminal episode in American history occurred in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Local miners had recently been or...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:34
There are teen movies, and then there are movies about teens. That’s a distinction that I just made up. My idea is that teen movies are what film c...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:17
Sorry to Bother You is the kind of thing you might say when you’re a little afraid that someone might not appreciate what you’re about to ask. It’s...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:07
Boxing films have been a popular genre since the very beginning of motion pictures, and those who like them usually have a favorite. Probably the m...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 03:58
The Coen brothers’ latest film is a story anthology presenting the dark themes behind that most American of film genres, the western.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:28
13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay, starts with some alarming facts. The U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, houses 25% of the ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:49
Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:55
The Little Stranger is what you would call a haunted house mystery, although that description may already give an inaccurate impression of the film.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:15
A group of Mexican immigrants, as yet undocumented, live together in a crowded apartment in Brooklyn, work hard, and play soccer in an amateur league.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
In the film Leave No Trace, a father and his teenage daughter are living in the woods—we see them foraging for food, mending tarps and other equipm...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:12
Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:05
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:39
Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Pla...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:24
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Claire Denis, the French filmmaker, has established her international reputation over three decades as a director of art cinema: social dramas with...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:12
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
In the early 1970s, at the peak of her powers and her success, Aretha Franklin decided that she wanted to make a gospel album, going back to the mu...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 04:35
English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 09:07
