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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Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
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A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
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In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
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In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:33
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Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:05
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The Father is a film about an elderly man suffering from dementia. It started in 2012 as a French play by Florian Zeller, and last year Zeller dire...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:17
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Riz Ahmed plays a rock drummer who loses his hearing and must come to terms with being a deaf person, in Darius Marder’s moving drama.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:11
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The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:48
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Catherine Deneuve plays a famous actress in conflict with her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film made outside ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
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In a Leningrad hospital, two women deal with the aftereffects of their experiences in World War II, in a powerful examination of trauma by a young ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:28
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Minari, the latest film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family’s struggle to make a new life in the Un...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:07
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Alice Rohrwacher’s two-part fable portrays the fragility of goodness in a corrupted world.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:39
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A Danish action film starts out looking like just another revenge drama, but then pulls the rug out from under the audience in a delightful way.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:25
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Among filmmakers of recent times who have had something important to say about the world predicament, a special place is held by Emir Kusturica, a ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:29
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since Hal Hartley’s film Trust came out. At the time it looked like Hartley was going to be one of...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:17
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American director Joseph Losey was well on the way to success in Hollywood when he found himself blacklisted during the anti-communist witch hunts ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:27
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There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different s...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:18
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The screwball comedy was a special kind of a film that flourished in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. It featured zany, no-holds-barred dialogue and...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:15
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There are very few more poignant examples of world-historical irony in cinema than the Soviet silent film—the revolutionary hopes they expressed pr...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:43