Welcome to Flicks, a WHYY program devoted to exploring the latest creations from Hollywood. Each week, WHYY film critic Patrick Stoner provides up-to-the-minute coverage of top films, stars and moviemakers. Stoner’s signature programs — the three-minute Flicks, capturing interviews with the stars and the one-minute Quick Pics offering the week’s “best bets” — appear on dozens of PBS stations nationwide each week. At this site, you can view Patrick’s latest interview as well as interviews from the Flicks archives.
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Paul Giamatti talks with Patrick Stoner about his unique ability to play difficult, even irritating, characters with charm.
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Air Date: November 29, 2023
Colman Domingo talks with Patrick Stoner about the personal honor he felt playing the mistreated civil rights leader.
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Air Date: November 22, 2023
Oscar winning documentarian Errol Morris talks with Patrick Stoner about his exploration of the master spy novelist, John LeCarre.
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Air Date: November 15, 2023
Martin Scorsese talks with Patrick Stoner about how Leonardo DiCaprio changed the focus of the film.
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Air Date: November 8, 2023
Meg Ryan & David Duchovny talk with Patrick Stoner about refining their overlapping dialogue while shooting in a real airport.
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Air Date: November 1, 2023
Killers Of The Flower Moon, Part One
Martin Scorsese talks with Patrick Stoner about what working with DiCaprio & De Niro over the years has taught him.
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Air Date: October 25, 2023
The Korean director of this suspense streaming series talks with Patrick Stoner about differences in foreign directing practices.
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Air Date: October 18, 2023
Leonard Bernstein’s children talk with Patrick Stoner about working with Bradley Cooper to make the biopic of their iconic father.
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Air Date: October 11, 2023
You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah
Director Sammi Cohen talks with Patrick Stoner about working with Adam Sandler & his two daughters starring in the family comedy.
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Air Date: October 4, 2023
A Man Called Otto: Special Hanks Edition
Tom Hanks talks with Patrick Stoner about his favorite actor & what he likes about his work.
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Air Date: September 27, 2023
Director John Carney talks with Patrick Stoner about letting the chemistry of the characters develop organically as he shot his little Ir
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Air Date: September 20, 2023
Cate Blanchett & director talk with Patrick Stoner about the streaming multiple award-winning film & why what was shot that’s
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Air Date: September 13, 2023
Samara Weaving & Lucy Boynton talk with Patrick Stoner about playing aristocratic women in 18th century France.
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Air Date: September 6, 2023
Guy Nattiv, the director, talks with Patrick Stoner about casting Helen Mirren as the late Israeli leader & how he approached the Y
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Air Date: August 30, 2023
Jon Hamm & the director talk with Patrick Stoner about going back to the original novels to recreate the iconic Fletch character mad
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Air Date: August 23, 2023