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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Preview: The Thursday Murder Club
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley & Director Chris Columbus talk with Patrick Stoner about ensemble acting. ...
Air Date: August 20, 2025
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas talks with Patrick Stoner about directing for the first time & the added challenge of co-starring along wi ...
Air Date: August 13, 2025
Deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis talks with Patrick Stoner about this British series with her as a lip reader drafted into dangerous police ...
Air Date: August 6, 2025
Leanne Morgan, the standup comic famous for observations about being a middle age woman in the South, talks with Patrick Stoner about her ...
Air Date: July 30, 2025
Jason Momoa & Thomas Pa’a Sibbett talk with Patrick Stoner about their epic nine part series bringing the indigenous conflicts in ...
Air Date: July 24, 2025
Alicia Silverstone is interviewed by Patrick Stoner about this dark thriller 30 years after interviewing her for the iconic teen film CLU ...
Air Date: July 16, 2025
Taron Egerton & other cast members talk with Patrick Stoner about creating the enigmatic characters involved in the true story of a ...
Air Date: July 9, 2025
Eva Victor talks with Patrick Stoner about her directorial debut wherein she also plays the main role of a woman coming to terms with a b ...
Air Date: July 2, 2025
Bryce Dallas Howard & Nick Mohammed talk with Patrick Stoner about how no improvising was needed in an action comedy about improvisa ...
Air Date: June 25, 2025
The cast of the Gilded Age Edith Wharton series talk with Patrick Stoner about bringing that late 19th century world of glamor & gli ...
Air Date: June 18, 2025
Joanna Vanderham, Shannon Watson, & Zoe Brough, playing the real life Mitford Sisters in 1930’s England, talk to Patrick Stoner ab ...
Air Date: June 11, 2025
Benicio del Toro & others talk with Patrick Stoner about how the auteur Wes Anderson helped them understand his innovative technique ...
Air Date: June 4, 2025
Terri Vaughn talks with Patrick Stoner about playing the lead as the straight part amidst a cast of farcical characters. ...
Air Date: May 28, 2025
Alexander Skarsgard & others talk to Patrick Stoner about the challenge of not breaking up while filming their series farce. ...
Air Date: May 21, 2025
Sean Penn talks with Patrick Stoner about becoming an executive producer of this true story of journalistic heroism to boost notice. ...
Air Date: May 14, 2025