Arts Express

* William Forsythe Talks The Roaring Game - And His John Gacy, Al Capone, J. Edgar Hoover And Jake LaMotta * Activist, performer, & composer Andy Teirstein on immigration court and teaching music in prison * Bro on Macron & the bankers * The Dances With Films Festival, a discussion about Stop Time * & Garland Nixon!  

* Miranda Richardson Talks The Yellow Tie, Her Eva Braun, And Surviving T.S. Eliot, Churchill, And British Union Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley In Her Movies * The Bulldog: A conversation with the filmmakers, who return to the scene of the crime - the site of the East Palestine, Ohio railroad derailment and chemical spill disaster * Bro On The Art of Scamming * & Garland Nixon!

* Sam Riley Talks Islands, Mint, and his Jack Kerouac - along with his 'cool, dark overcoat' in Doves, and breakout role as Joy Division's Ian Curtis in Control * More Bird City with Ryan Goldberg * Bro on the BBC & the working class * & Garland Nixon!

* Claire Foy Talks H Is For Hawk, Ink.  The UK actress in a conversation about her portrayal of Helen Macdonald, in this film memoir of Macdonald and her press photographer father * Bird City: A Conversation With Author Ryan Goldberg, Adventures in the NYC Urban Wilds * Broe debuts his new online show * & Garland Nixon!

* Vondie Curtis-Hall Talks Sheepdog, The Projectionist. And his portrayal as a mentally destroyed Vietnam veteran in Sheepdog * UK Desk: Greenland--boats, billionaires, and news cycles * Bro on Top Ten of the Year * Renee Good poetry * & Garland Nixon!

* Michael Mosley Talks Signing Tony Raymond, Ballard, The Savant. A conversation about his latest satirical film during this football season * Luke O'Neil's new short fictions, "We Had It Coming" *Movies 2025 Wrap-Up Report:  Broe on the worst of the worst.  * & Garland Nixon! Plus...Venezuela, ICE, Greenland... 

* Rich Williams Talks Kansas, "Dust In The Wind," & the story surrounding the creation of an enduring classic song * Maduro kidnapped! AE Paris correspondent Dennis Broe gives the European perspective * & Garland Nixon!

* Janelle James Talks Abbott Elementary. From standup onstage to head principal of an inner city public school in the satirical series, Abbott Elementary * Anthony Hopkins recent memoir * Broe on The Case of Vienna and The Politics of the Holiday Season 2025 * & Garland Nixon!

* Alan Berliner Talks Benita, a devastating and deeply eloquent film tribute to his late collaborator, artist and filmmaker Benita Raphan * Broe talks AI, Robin Hood, blacklists, Paris politics and Zohran Mamdani in a cross-continental convo * & Garland Nixon!

* Predators: A Conversation with investigative filmmaker David Osit about his latest film probing "To Catch A Predator," the notorious reality TV show  * Broe in a cross-continental convo dissects the US mafia government's porno-style manipulation--plus the current Paris economic street uprisings * & Garland Nixon!

* Don Swayze Talks All Saints Day, Matlock, And His Late Brother Patrick's Legacy * A gothic tale for Christmas...'a place where shadows breathe...inviting you to immerse yourself' * & Garland Nixon!

* Janet McTeer Talks The Artist - and her Professor Minerva McGonagall in the next Harry Potter, following in the footsteps of the late Maggie Smith * It's A Wonderful Life and the FBI? * "Ode For The American Dead In Korea" * & Garland Nixon!

* Jared Harris Talks Reawakening, A House Of Dynamite Nuclear Apocalypse, Chernobyl, Mad Men, And His Gorbachev's End Of World Showdown In Reykjavik * Robin Hood goes corporate * Alan Berliner's back to the future doc on the extraordinary Benita Raphan * & Garland Nixon!

* Alex Woo Talks In Your Dreams, a reverie excursion, and Rex Steele: Nazi Hunter * Ensh*ttification: Why Everything got Worse and What You Can Do About It * Shawn Grenier on the painter who fell in love with his own art * & Garland Nixon!

* The Perfect Neighbor: Director Geeta Gandbhir in conversation re her ironically titled film doc about the long horrific reality of racism in this country * Bro on The House of Guinness * Shawn Grenier on "the artist who painted dreams..." * & Garland Nixon!

* Penelope Ann Miller Talks After All, joined by Erika Christensen * UK Desk: David Litz And The Worker Owned Water Bottle Movement  * Plus...Veterans Day, violence, the new US mercenary army and war, in the art work of Leon Golub * & Garland Nixon!

* Filmmaker Patrick Harbinson Talks His 'Maigret' - among 34+ other Detective Maigret screen manifestations. And what this may have to do with Vietnamese takeout and a ratty old trench coat... * Halloween Spookarama with The Black Cat * & Garland Nixon!

* Tony Danza Talks  Re-Election, his latest film, playing a dad dealing with his son's election do over, confronting corruption and lunacy--& Tony also talks Taxi * The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind The Death Of The Dinosaurs with Prof. Gerta Keller * & Garland Nixon!

* Malcolm McDowell Talks The Partisan, His Rupert Murdoch in Bombshell, Dog & Bull, and memories of Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange * Broe on the South African thriller series, Lioness * Why Grant Wood's American Gothic became iconic * & Garland Nixon!

* Crispin Glover Talks Mr. K, Orson Welles, and 'navigating within the corporate structure of the film world...' * Newport & the Great Folk Dream, a continuing conversation * Broe on 'cabbages versus caviar' in the crime series, Marked * & Garland Nixon!

* The Daily Show: A Conversation With Head Writer, Dan Amira --Who's Calling the Shots? * Newport And The Great Folk Dream: a look back to a crucial musical marker * Broe with a 2nd wave report from the streets of Paris * And Garland Nixon!

* Charlie McDowell Talks The Summer Book, His Dad Malcolm McDowell, Dear White People - & his uncredited bully in Curb Your Enthusiasm * AE Paris Correspondent Broe on Trump's defunding of public tv & radio - the sledgehammer solution * Flags Half Mast at Guantanamo's McDonalds * & Garland Nixon!

*Tim Blake Nelson Talks Bang Bang, as a down & out Detroit ex-boxer. Also, The Lowdown, & Nelson's status as a continuing master of many movie hats * More Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News * Broe reports on the mass rage on the streets of Paris * & Garland Nixon!

* Chris Cooper Talks The History Of Sound, the journey of two WWI era music conservationists who record and preserve rural ballads; & John Sayles' Matewan  * Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News, with author Alec Karakatsanis * & Garland Nixon!

* The Knife: Melissa Leo on playing a deceptively concerned sinister cop in her new film; & also, her turn as Laura Poitras in Snowden * Bro on the new Manchurian candidates * Painting Klansmen: How Philip Guston explored themes of violence, evil and complicity * & Garland Nixon!

* Lilly: Patricia Clarkson as real life blue collar worker Lilly Ledbetter, fighting Goodyear Tire--and prevailing! * Action Will Be Taken--a comic Labor Noir  * In The Disruption: On the writings of philosopher and former bank robber, Bernard Stiegler * & Garland Nixon!

* Suspended Time: Oliver Assayas talks about his existential voyage through the Covid lockdown. Also Carlos, and his Putin in Wizard Of The Kremlin * Return to Fukushima, an irradiated world * Bro on The Summit, Who Wants Peace? * And Garland Nixon!

* Michael Chernus Talks Birthrite, Orange Is The New Black, and playing Theo Bikel in A Complete Unknown * Return to Fukushima: the false promise and real danger of nuclear power with investigative journalist Thomas Bass * And Garland Nixon!

* Actor Jim O'Heir Talks Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles,  Parks And Recreation, & Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery Dinner Party *  AE Paris Correspondent Dennis Broe on the EU tariff surrender, weapons, Ukraine, & blackmail *  On the 80th anniversary of the US horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima, some reflections... * & Garland Nixon!

* Thomas Jane Talks Hung, Breaking Bad, and  Murder At Yellowstone City: the western genre as wild west police state allegory * Nautilus - a reimagining of Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea * Red Star Cafe: Denzel Washington on propaganda * & Garland Nixon!

* Lou Diamond Phillips: La Bamba, Che, Stand And Deliver - and among the miners trapped in The 33 * Union: Pt 2 convo on the Amazon Labor Union film doc  * Red Star Cafe: who is Vera Caspary, linking McCarthyism, film noir, and Gaza * & Garland Nixon!

* Apocalypse Now, Megalopolis, Godfather III & more- A Conversation with Coppola collaborator James Mockoski * Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing talk Union: fighting for the first Amazon union in the nation * And Garland Nixon! 

* Talking With Maggie Q: Ballard--a disturbing look at the LAPD where 'the way things were may not exist anymore...' * Shifty: The Land Of Make Believe. Thought in the age of AI, a 5 part BBC series * Red Star Cafe with Trump turning up on July 4th in Iowa * & Garland Nixon!

* Tough-as-nails Winter Bones actress Dale Dickey Talks Feminist Fatale political crime thriller The G, Breaking Bad, and Kissyfoot * The NYC Dem Primary Victory Of Zohran Mamdani: two views * Reframing the 4th of July, politics & poetry * & Garland Nixon!

* Ed Begley Jr. Talks The Workplace Noir Don't Tell Larry, as well as the LA uprisings and his blue collar, character actor father * Cabbages and Kings: Mass protest in Brooklyn falls short * 5 Minute Marxist at the Red Star Cafe talks warmonger Lindsey Graham * And Garland Nixon!

* Seth Green Talks The Floaters, Comedy In A Broken World - and what's going down on the streets of LA * UK Desk: John Cliffords  on The US Water Crisis * The Toxic Masculinity Family Tree: Errol Musk speaks * Juneteenth: 'Gates Of Toil' A poetic tribute

* Sunlight, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues: A Conversation with UK puppeteer Nina Conti * The One Minute Marxist: Red Iowa, a look at Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, Medicaid and death * UK Desk: The Birmingham garbage strike  * And Garland Nixon!

* K Callan Talks Sew Torn, playing mothers Of Superman and John The Baptist, and memories of Peter Boyle  * Shakespeare Noir & Darkest LA: Welles, Kurosawa & The Journey Of Simon McKeever  * The Manifesto of Elias Rodriguez * And Garland Nixon!

* Jai Courtney Talks Dangerous Animals, a 21st century subversive take on Moby Dick symbolism * Bro On The Politics Of Fire: Dresden, Hiroshima, racism, class & imperialism * Julian Assange Speaks At the Cannes Film Festival. Or rather, doesn't... * And Garland Nixon!

* Jason Isaacs, Master of Disguises, Talks Words Of War, The White Lotus, and The Salt Path * AE Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe reporting on the ground,  A Tale Of Two WWII Victory Day Celebrations * Garland Nixon in conversation with George Galloway * Letter from Burkina Faso President and African revolutionary, Ibrahim Traore to Pope Leo

* Director Bille August Talks The Kiss & wars on screen and also outside the theaters * Palestine Resistance Cinema Online * Bro on the new spring streaming season--Nazis, Silicon Valley, a UFO, the Mossad, and terrorist pagers * And Garland Nixon!

* John Lynch Talks Sew/Torn, & Some Mother's Son. The Northern Ireland actor revisits his portrayal of IRA revolutionary Bobby Sands * Shoumita Dasgupta: Where Biology Ends And Bias Begins  * UK Desk: Deciphering The New Flesh * And Garland Nixon!

* Keith David Talks Sneaks, Platoon, and his Frederick Douglass Portrayals On Screen * The Prison Poems Of Ho Chi Minh * Bro On Prime Target - Resisting Surveillance *And Garland Nixon Deciphering Donald

* Nora: Lesley Ann Warren, exploring her latest film, and the struggles of women to reinvent themselves * UK Desk: John Greenaway Talks Capitalism: A Horror Story * Bro On Series Mania 2025 - The largest TV festival in the world * And Garland Nixon!

* The Bondsman - A Conversation With Beth Grant who teams up with Kevin Bacon in this unusual supernatural crime noir thriller series.  * Brush Up Your Shakespeare--The Winter's Tale: Negotiating Trauma * Bro on the Crime Novel 2025 * And Garland Nixon, and a NATO bombing song parody by Mitchel Cohen!

* Danish actor Claes Bang discusses William Tell & also playing Dracula * Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll * Bro On The UK series Adolescence: school violence and an endorsement from Keir Starmer * And Garland Nixon!

* Steve Coogan Talks The Penguin Lessons & his 4 roles in the Dr. Strangelove stage adaptation * Broe and Prof Toby Miller from our Mexico City desk: Trump may be bad for the US - but very good for CBS * Tribute to the artist and political activist, the late Tom Keough * UK Desk rebuttal re Repeater books 

* Amy Schumacher Talks Screamboat and her MFA at a Russian acting conservatory * Bro on Sports: Vegas gambling halls; Trump, Israel and money laundering - & the world's 8th richest woman * Red Rosa: Kate Evans reads Luxemburg's letters *And Garland Nixon!

* Elizabeth Hand Talks First Word On Horror & the new series featuring horror writers reading from their work * UK Desk: Erasure, Retaliation, Corporate Executing - The case of Repeater Books * Red Rosa (Luxemburg):  Kate Evans on her graphic history of the great socialist * And Garland Nixon!

* Casper Van Dien, known for Starship Troopers, takes a detour with the unconventional, post-Civil War western, Guns Of Redemption * UK Desk: 'Staring into the abyss.'  * Bro on Steven Knight's drama, charting the brutality of the British ruling class

* MSNBC Host Alex Wagner Checks In - Or Rather Out, of her just cancelled show. And Trumpland * Rebel youth singer/songwriter Jesse Welles * Bro on the Arts Express with a stopover in Austria, rejecting the drive toward war with Russia * And Garland Nixon!