Arts Express

* 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!

* The Day The Earth Blew Up. Peter Browngardt, the writer, director, animator and co-star of the latest Looney Tunes incarnation * Firesign - A continuing conversation re the Firesign Theatre with author Jeremy Braddock  * And Garland Nixon on AI

* Renee Taylor Talks Magic Hour, playing Eva Braun in The Producers & her bond with late husband Joseph Bologna * Firesign - Jeremy Braddock on the 1970s surreal comedy foursome, The Firesign Theatre * Bro reads from The Dark Ages, his latest mystery thriller

* Renate Reinsve Talks Armand and A Different Man, and what it's like to be directed by the grandson of Ingmar Bergman & Liv Ullmann * UK Desk: Reflections on the late Japanese novelist, Osamu Dazai, forced to renounce his communism * And Amiri Baraka and Garland Nixon! 

* Tommy Davidson Talks "Stronger" & his stunning, musical collaboration with Earth, Wind & Fire * JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey talk The Strike, inmate hunger strikers 30,000 strong * Sergei Toymentsev on Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Of Contradictions  * and Garland Nixon!

* Filmmaker Rob Tregenza on The Fishing Place,  his WWII Norway Nazis revisited reverie, and The Sad And Lonely Death Of Edgar Allan Poe * The Strike: the story of the 30,000 prisoner hunger strike started by the inmates in solitary at Pelican Bay Prison * Bro on The Journey of Simon McKeever, the film that never happened *And Garland Nixon!

* Jacqueline Bisset Talks Loren & Rose, Truffaut,  Sinatra, Surviving Hollywood - and the LA fires * UK Desk: Remembering David Lynch--who "gave me permission in a way, to believe in myself." * The Ultimate Hidden Truth Of The World: David Graeber * And Garland Nixon!

* The Stoic: A Conversation with actor & activist Jason Flemyng * Dennis Broe's The Dark Ages Return, his latest Harry Palmer mystery thriller * UK Desk: A political, historical and surreal faceoff, channeling chaos, Zuckerberg, and cactus needles 

* The Sing Sing Chronicles with prisoner turned actor, Jon-Adrian 'JJ' Velazquez * "The Mockingbird" by Ambrose Bierce * UK Desk: Four reasons why a nuclear weapon has not gone off as yet *And Shahid Bolsen!

* That Other Dylan Movie - Sally Kirkland Talks Sallywood * My Friend, The Terrorist: Part 2 on the Filipino revolutionary, Jose Maria Sison * UK Desk: Luigi, healthcare, and anger * Broe's new book, The Dark Ages: Stories, Stories And More Stories

* Rod Serling On His 100th Birthday Anniversary - daughter Anne Serling on her memoir As I Knew Him * UK Desk: 'Van Gogh Has A Broken Heart": Russell Ramsay expounds * My Friend The Terrorist : a new doc on the Filipino guerrilla army leader, "Joma" * And Garland Nixon

* Alicia Witt Talks Longlegs, Her Music, Movies, And Her Creative Process Musically * UK Desk: April Brucker: - actress, author, comedienne, and ventriloquist... * Dickens and the real Christmas Carol story And Garland Nixon!

* Judy Greer Talks White House Plumbers, and moving on from Halloween to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever * UK Desk: After The Flying Saucers Came - A Global History Of UFOs * Dennis Broe unearths the 2024 Top Television Series * And Garland Nixon!

* Errol Morris Takes The Hot Seat in a conversation about his latest documentary, Separated * A tour through the US's first Palestine Museum * UK Desk: Confessions Of A Mask - A Deep Dive Into The Confounding Mind of Yukio Mishima * and Garland Nixon!

* Ron Perlman Talks Day Of The Fight, Hellboy, Bread And Roses, and Memories Of Brando * UK Desk: Not Just An Activist: A Conversation With Gaza hunger striker Lizzie Greenwood  * "The Many Faces Of Jack," a possibly true supernatural disturbing Thanksgiving story * And Garland Nixon!

* Jennifer Hudson Talks Portraying Aretha Franklin, And Her Current Tour * Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain and how to understand the effects of genocide * UK Desk: A Conversation with the founder of The London Breeze Film Festival * Bro's Election Wrap-Up

* Alistair McGowan Talks I Am Alfred Hitchcock, A perfectly legal act of identity theft * A Conversation With William Banks. The actor/writer takes us through his arrest and trial * Sonny Boy: A Memoir. A window into the extraordinary life of Al Pacino *And Garland Nixon!

* Armand Assante probes the troubled figures he portrays in film: Don Q, When Nietzsche Wept, and Gotti 2 * A Cuban leader's speech--and the deterioration of US political language * UK Desk: Busted! And...'Now let's talk about Zardoz' * and Garland Nixon!

* Louis Lombardi Talks 'Director's Cut' Horror, Jesus on TV, The Sopranos, and 24--and being directed by Oliver Stone * UK Desk: Fear of Music,  A Conversation With David Stubbs * Clown Show with Garland Nixon

* Andie MacDowell on starring as a mother of a daughter strung out on meth in Good Girl Jane, & new film Goodrich * UK desk: the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas * Japanese ghost story, "Jikininki" by Lafcadio Hearn * And Garland Nixon!

* Director Uwe Boll Talks First Shift, Assault On Wall Street, and Endless Wars * The Backyard Bird Chronicles with Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan * UK Desk: cinema historian and critic Ian Nathan on Steven Spielberg * And Garland Nixon!

* Steve Guttenberg talks Paper Empire, The Boys From Brazil, and his new memoir * CIA: Drugs R Us!, Some of the most evil CIA programs * Bro on Rediscovering Radical Palestinian Cinema, Hope for the Future * UK Desk: A Prophet In The Darkness: Art critic, author and pastor Wesley Vander Lugt

*Dinesh D'Souza on The AE Hot Seat explaining his unusual promo bio for his film, Vindicating Trump *Bob & Ray-ish October Surprise Homage *UK Desk: With Mary Caldwell, the wife of soul music legend Bobby Caldwell  and Garland Nixon!

* Kevin Corrigan and Sadie Bones talk If That Mockingbird Don't Sing & Steal This Movie * UK Desk: Anti-Oculus - A Philosophy of Escape, Jack Clarke's analysis of The Acid Horizon Collective * Mitchel Cohen: Political Prisoner, Requiem For The Other 9/11

* Wiseguy, and The Bibi Files: Director Alex Gibney films gangsters in two current docs: one on The Sopranos, and the other, Netanyahu * Pete Seeger on The Peekskill Riots against Paul Robeson * UK Desk: Hungry Ghosts In The Machine with Mike Watson

* Fred Trump Talks All In The Family - The Trumps And How We Got That Way * Artist Carlito Rovira on taking artistic inspiration from revolutionary struggle  * UK Desk: A People Under Siege: The Unionists Of Northern Ireland From Partition To Brexit And Beyond

* Radha Mitchell Talks Take My Hand, Finding Neverland, And Kerouac's Lover In Big Sur * Self-described Young Lord for life Carlito Rovira discusses painting revolutionaries * UK desk: Jack Clarke and Matthew Alford on military video games

* Natalie Dormer talks The Wasp, Game Of Thrones, And Females On The Edge * Happy Campers: Filmmaker Amy Nicholson on her portrait of community, scrappy trailers, and circling developers * UK Desk: Steve Tibble Talks Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain * Nicole Shanahan on RFK Jr's withdrawal

* Cancer, Cinemascope And The Bomb. Director William Nunez Talks The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout * UK Desk: A Conversation With Huda Ammori, leader of the Palestine Action Guerrilla Network shaking things up by taking direct action * And Garland Nixon!

* Sex, Lies And Minnesota: Jack Huston on portraying RFK in The Irishman, and his latest production uncovering the underground '70s married suburban couples sexuality movement * To The Rescue: Three by Caitlin Johnstone * Jack Clarke: Making sense of the massive UK race riots * And Garland Nixon on Kamala

* Gabriel Byrne talks about his portrayal of Samuel Beckett in Dance First, and the John Wick sequel, Ballerina * The Dry Harvest: Jack Clarke in discussion with Zimbabwe filmmaker and digital activist Malon Murape * Garland Nixon on America Right Now

* Iain Glen Talks Game Of Thrones, and his latest, The Last Front, depicting the WW I invasion of Belgium * John Washington: more on The Case for Open Borders * Jack Clarke, UK desk, deconstructs police brutality and mass resistance * Broe on the French elections and Garland Nixon!

* Haley Bennett Talks Till, Widow Cliquot, And Virginia Woolf  * The Case For Open Borders: interview with journalist John Washington. * Jack Clarke talks with Theater Of War filmmaker Matthew Alford * "Politics, Mythologies And The Matrix": Garland Nixon

* Tommy Davidson, comedian, actor, and musician on his tour with Katt Williams, & how it all began on In Living Color  * Jack Clarke with Richard Kuper, of Jews For Justice For Palestinians & founder of Pluto Press * Shahid Bolson on the American Condition

* Dandelion:  KiKi Layne on her current film as a creatively and financially challenged aspiring musician * Miracle On 47th Street: Lloyd Richards Way and Glynn Turman * Living In A World With No Future: Jack Clarke with Bram E Gieben  * UK Politics Satire

* From Colonialism To Cannes: Guy Pearce on erasing history in his latest film, The Convert * Bro on Dark Stories For Dark Times * Jack Clarke talks with  radical Workers Party candidate, Dr. Matthew Alford * Garland Nixon & guest on The Debate

* Joy Reid's Medgar And Myrlie * The New York War Crimes--Writers Against the War On Gaza * Open Country: Jack Clarke speaks with Glenda and Jesse Drew about their country music doc * Garland Nixon on Hollywood

* Jennifer Esposito Talks Fresh Kills, females surviving the Mafia as both a sense of place and metaphor * Finding The Money-rethinking how the economy works * Jack Clarke reads Two Brothers and The Gold by Tolstoy * Garland Nixon, Cynic

* C. Thomas Howell Talks Ride, and Playing Caspar Weinberger in Reagan * Finding The Money: Everything you knew about the way the US economy works is wrong * Caitlin Johnstone on Celebrities Boosting The Empire * Garland Nixon talks Google Gatekeepers