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
- 449
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Faces Places
The great Agnes Varda collaborates with photographer JR on a project in which they travel around rural France taking pictures of people, blowing them up to a huge size, and then pasting them up on ci…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
L’Assassinat du Père Noël
This brilliant portrait of small town intrigue was made in France under German occupation, and its subtle tone of resistance gives its Christmas atmosphere a special poignance.
Regular listeners to t…
Jane
A documentary by Brett Morgen pays full and fitting tribute to one of the world’s most remarkable individuals, Jane Goodall.
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives…
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s debut film stars Saoirse Ronan as a bright high school senior at a Sacramento Catholic high school who just wants to get out of town.
The talented writer and actress Greta Gerwig prove…
The Square
Ruben Őstlund’s latest film savagely satirizes establishment complacency and self-regard, using the theme of modern art to reflect on the porous boundaries between civilization and barbarism.
The su…
The Executioner
The Florida Project
Sean Baker’s glimpse into the life of a six-year-old living with her drifter mom in a cheap motel near Disney World in Orlando depicts poverty without a trace of condescension.
Poverty breeds ignoran…
Logan Lucky
Steven Soderbergh’s return to the big screen is a comedy heist film with a southern blue collar flavor.
Steven Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago…
American Made
Tom Cruise stars as a real-life pilot who got caught up and in the dangerous, but lucrative, business of running weapons and cocaine in and out of Latin America for the CIA in the 1980s.
The 1980s no…
Dolores / Chavela
Harry Dean Stanton: Paris, Texas & Lucky
Harry Dean Stanton—that thin, quiet man with the sad eyes and haggard face, and one of the great character actors in American film—died last month at the age of 91. He had appeared in supporting role…
mother!
Darren Aronofsky’s cosmic horror flick goes gleefully over the top in its symbolic depiction of the tragic historical situation of women.
“Hell is other people.” That famous saying is from the play “…
A Face in the Crowd
One of the great American satires on film, A Face in the Crowd was ahead of its time in pinpointing the dangerous intersection of politics and entertainment.
In 1957, three years before Andy Griffith…
The White Sheik
In The White Sheik, Fellini comments on the relationship between reality and illusion, while also satirizing movie making itself, its essential fakeness, but also its seductive charm.
Among the films…
The Big Sick
The Big Sick, based on the actual events surrounding comedian Kumail Nadjiana’s courtship of his wife Emily, is consistently funny.
Actor and comedian Kumail Nadjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon wro…
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan dramatizes the spectacular escape of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, in a film that emphasizes the brutality and terror of war.
It looks like the big blockbuster of the summer …
Okja
Korean director Bong Joon-Ho presents a science fiction action adventure about a child’s bond with a super-pig, corporate greed, and the evils of factory farming.
Okja is the latest film from Korean…
The Last Detail
Hal Ashby’s film about two navy men assigned to escort a young sailor to the brig, is an example of how gritty, downbeat films could be made, and seen by a wide audience, in the 1970s.
In that brief …