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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Jeff Goldblum & Johnath Bailey the Wizard & male lead, talk with Patrick Stoner about their first memories of Oz as children.
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Air Date: November 20, 2024
Jesse Eisenberg talks with Patrick Stoner about how he handled the triple responsibilities of director, writer & star of his fast pa
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Air Date: November 13, 2024
Tom Hanks & Robin Wright talk with Patrick Stoner about they made specific adjustments in actions & voice as they aged from 17
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Air Date: November 6, 2024
Ralph Fiennes & the director talk with Patrick Stoner about a film driven by the reactions to the reactions of the other characters.
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Air Date: October 30, 2024
Billy Crystal talks to Patrick Stoner about taking on his most serious role using the Method style of acting & the pain of staying i
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Air Date: October 23, 2024
Cate Blanchett & Alfonso Cuaron talk with Patrick Stoner about their series exploring the nature of truth.
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Air Date: October 16, 2024
Documentary makers talk with Patrick Stoner about the amazing women who free dive for marine specimens & the threat to the environme
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Air Date: October 10, 2024
Lupita Nyong’o talks with Patrick Stoner about finding the humanity in the robot’s character that touches audiences so much.
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Air Date: October 9, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola, the Godfather of cinema, talks with Patrick Stoner about his vision of hope in modern life with his complicated fab
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Air Date: October 2, 2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The adult children of Hollywood’s Superman talk with Patrick Stoner about his heroic challenge of his devastating injury & the hel
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Air Date: September 25, 2024
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
The makers of a documentary exploring our greatest president’s intimate history talk to Patrick Stoner about their scholarship
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Air Date: September 18, 2024
Director & stars—Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon, & Natasha Lyonne—talk with Patrick Stoner about maintaining intensity in the
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Air Date: September 11, 2024
Dennis Quaid & Penelope Ann Miller talk to Patrick Stoner about avoiding impressions of the recognizable former president & Fir
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Air Date: September 4, 2024
Gary Oldman talks with Patrick Stoner about playing his popular eccentric character & the older actor who is his role model.
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Air Date: August 28, 2024
Minha Kim, the breakout star of the award winning multi generation series, talks with Patrick Stoner about playing a World War II Korean
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Air Date: August 21, 2024