Flicks with The Film Snob

About 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.

Publisher

Chris Dashiell

Category

arts · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Oct 2013

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

499 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Late Fame

   Poetry used to be widely read. It was considered important. Now, when most people don’t read it, poets may justifiably feel nostalgic about the days when intellectuals gathered in Greenwich Village coffee houses and wrote poems.  It’s been idealized, and in the new comedy-drama Late Fame, it’s a subject of wistful satire. Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, an older man living in lower Manhattan who has worked at the post office for the past 36 years. He is single, and his life outside of work seems to consist of hanging out at the local bar playing pool with other guys from…

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   The Lower Depths

   It had long been a dream of the director Akira Kurosawa to make a film adapting the great Maxim Gorky play “The Lower Depths” about the struggles of a group of destitute people living in a flophouse. It had been done before several times by other directors, but Kurosawa felt a strong connection with Russian literature. He’d already done a version of Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot,” and another of his films was inspired loosely by Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych.” Gorky’s play was written in 1902, in the turbulent period before revolution, and it grimly portrayed and satirized the state of…

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Train Dreams

   Train Dreams is an historical drama taking place in the forests of the northwest United States during the early 20th century. You might think that the story has to do with trains, and a small part of it does, but the title really symbolizes the painful creation of the modern world in America, born from the sweat and toil of poor working people just trying to survive. The film is directed by Clint Bentley and co-adapted with Greg Kwedar from a book by the late acclaimed writer Denis Johnson. Joel Edgerton plays Robert Grainier, a quiet man who was adopted by…

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

11 ratings

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5.0 / 5

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