Flicks with The Film Snob
Flicks with The Film Snob features a weekly film review focused on new independent releases and old classics. Chris Dashiell knows film, and he knows enough to know what’s worth watching and why. Produced in Tucson Arizona at KXCI Community Radio.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 450
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
In the Aisles
Life on the job—in this case, the night shift at a supermarket box store—forms the background of German director Thomas Stuber’s gentle drama of love and friendship.
Most of us spend close to half of…
Midsommar
Ari Aster’s latest horror film depicts a group of young Americans encountering a strange pagan community in Sweden.
In last year’s horror film stand-out Hereditary, director Ari Astor explored the da…
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship, and the city by the Bay.
A new film tells a beautif…
The World Before Your Feet / Free Solo
The Biggest Little Farm
A documentary tells of a couple’s struggle to create and maintain an organic farm that is totally in harmony with nature.
It might just be because I’m a city boy at heart, but I think it’s very dif…
The Souvenir / Be Natural
Long Day’s Journey Into Night / The Mustang
Le Trou
Jacques Becker’s final film is an intensely focused drama about a seemingly impossible prison escape, based on real events.
Four men sharing a cell in a Paris prison are planning a daring escape, whe…
On the Bowery
Lionel Rogosin’s 1956 portrait of the Skid Row neighborhood in lower Manhattan was a startling new development in American cinema.
On the Bowery is a fascinating documentary film from 1956, by Lion…
Wild Nights with Emily
A film about the love affair between the poet Emily Dickinson and her childhood friend Susan Gilbert gleefully satirizes the male-centric point of view on literary history.
I find it remarkable, cons…
Amazing Grace
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 music with which she had first launched her singing ca…
High Life
Claire Denis, the French filmmaker, has established her international reputation over three decades as a director of art cinema: social dramas with a vast range of subject matter, from the politics …
Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
That self-centeredness is often related to self-hatred is perhaps not an obvious trut…
King Rat
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 camp in World War II.
Prisoner of war movies: they’ve…
Ash is Purest White
Jia Zhanke’s saga of a woman finding the strength to survive after being abandoned by her small time gangster boyfriend, reflects the anxiety of rapid change in modern China.
Jia Zhanke is a Chinese …
Us
Apollo 11
A documentary by Todd Douglas Miller marking the 50th anniversary of the flight that first landed a man on the moon, features previously unseen film footage and audio from the mission.
It was only af…
Dark Star
John Carpenter’s first feature, a low budget science fiction comedy, drily exposes the complete inadequacy of human beings when measured against the cosmos.
John Carpenter is known primarily as a dir…
Never Look Away
The story of the early life and career of an innovative German painter dramatizes the troubled history of that country from the Nazi period to its division during the Cold War.
Never Look Away, the …