Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
Series produced by KXCI
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
Order by:
Newest First |
Oldest First
During Russia’s gradual descent back to dictatorship, one prominent film director has unsparingly depicted the spiritual rot in the heart of his co...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:52
The desire for a loving relationship takes many forms in the latest film from veteran French director Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In. Juliette B...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:15
It may take a while to process your feelings once you’ve seen Hereditary, the scary debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster. A lot of horror m...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:45
A man of faith is tested to the limit in Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed. Ethan Hawke plays Reverend Stoller, the minister of a Dutch R...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:35
I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:44
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 08:38
Young Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv are the protagonists of In Between, the debut feature film written and directed by Maysaloun Hamoud. The...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:51
I’d never seen a film from Estonia until recently, and now, judging from the one I just saw, a movie called November, directed by Rainer Sarnet, I ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:37
The Death of Stalin is the latest satiric film from Armando Iannucci, whose previous film In the Loop, followed by the similarly themed HBO series ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:44
English writer-director Sally Potter is a rare talent, a feminist who is also a first-rate satirist, aiming her barbs not only at male dominance in...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:46
Whip-smart and scary, yet seemingly off-the-cuff, Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest contribution to genre film, in this case the suspense thrill...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:58
I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:11
The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 04:23
Every critic has blind spots. I’m sure I have more than a few. The fact that it’s taken me this long to go see Coco, the latest feature from Disney...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:52
There’s a special place in my heart for silly comedies. I realize I don’t review these kinds of movies on the show very often, and that’s partly be...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 04:46
English writer-director Sally Potter is a rare talent, a feminist who is also a first-rate satirist, aiming her barbs not only at male dominance in...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 09:32
The Post, Steven Spielberg’s latest film, tells a complex and fascinating true life story—the decision by The Washington Post in 1971 to print The ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:03
Call Me by Your Name is a gay love story without the angst, struggle, campiness, social comment, or outright tragedy that we have come to expect fr...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:04
