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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I must be honest and say out loud that these are tough times. And I don’t think escapism is the answer. Well, make of that what you will, but in li...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:27
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Sentimentality can be tricky in a film. If a director lays it on too thick, it can seem manipulative. Well, there’s plenty of sentimentality in the...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:41
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My taste in horror films tends towards the classical. I like a movie with a creepy or macabre point of view more than one that tries really hard to...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
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The Queen of Katwe, a film by Mira Nair, is based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan girl who, with very little formal education, became...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
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I’ve been on a music documentary binge lately. After Eight Days a Week, the Ron Howard film about The Beatles, which I loved, I saw another doc abo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
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Watching a Guatemalan film is not an everyday event here in the States, much less one whose dialogue is primarily in Kaqchikel, a Maya Indian langu...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:50
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Chris discusses Red Headed Woman, an MGM production from 1932 directed by Jack Conway.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 04:02
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There is always a select group of filmmakers who become critical favorites in world cinema without having much impact on the awareness of the mass ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:25
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Chris discusses Henry King's "The Gunfighter"

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:33
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Chris discusses Andrew Haigh's 45 Years.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:46
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Chris discusses Michael Cutiz's Captain Blood.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
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Chris discusses Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:57
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Chris discusses Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
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Chris Dashiell discusses The Lobster, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:31
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Writer-director Whit Stillman hasn’t made many films—only five, in fact, since his debut feature in 1990, Metropolitan. Apparently he’s found it di...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:15