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Arts Express 10-29-24 Featuring Louis Lombardi
* 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
53:1129/10/2024
Arts Express 10-23-24 Featuring Andie Macdowell
* 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!
52:4224/10/2024
Arts Express 10-16-24 Featuring Director Uwe Boll
* 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!
53:1317/10/2024
Arts Express 10-9-24 Featuring Steve Guttenberg
* 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
53:0610/10/2024
Arts Express 10-02-24 Featuring Dinesh D'Souza
*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!
53:1003/10/2024
Arts Express 9-25-24 Featuring Kevin Corrigan
* 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
53:0526/09/2024
Arts Express 9-18-24 Featuring Director Alex Gibney
* 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
53:1719/09/2024
Arts Express 9-11-24 Featuring Trump Nephew Fred Trump III
* 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
52:4812/09/2024
Arts Express 9-4-24 Featuring Radha Mitchell
* 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
53:0105/09/2024
Arts Express 8-28-24 Featuring Natalie Dormer
* 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
52:5029/08/2024
Arts Express 8-21-24 Featuring Director William Nunez
* 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!
53:2421/08/2024
Arts Express 8-14-24 Featuring Jack Huston
* 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
53:0615/08/2024
Arts Express 8-7-24 Featuring Actor Gabriel Byrne
* 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
52:5908/08/2024
Arts Express 7-31-24 Featuring Actor Iain Glen
* 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!
52:3601/08/2024
Arts Express 7-24-24 Featuring Haley Bennett
* 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
52:4825/07/2024
Arts Express 7-17-24 Featuring Tommy Davidson
* 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
52:3517/07/2024
Arts Express 7-10-24 Featuring Actress Kiki Layne
* 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
53:0511/07/2024
Arts Express 7-3-24 Featuring Guy Pearce
* 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
52:4104/07/2024
Arts Express 6-26-24 Featuring Joy Reid
* 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
52:5327/06/2024
Arts Express 6-19-24 Featuring Jennifer Esposito
* 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
52:3420/06/2024
Arts Express 6-12-24 Featuring Actor C. Thomas Howell
* 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
52:4313/06/2024
Arts Express 6-5-24 Featuring Director Philippe Diaz
* Same Political Prisoners, Different Day: Director Philippe Diaz Talks I Am Gitmo, and Angola 1,2, & 3
* Bro On The Business Of TV - Increasing Quantity Meets Declining Quality
* Garland Nixon on Movies, The Defense Department, and Hollywood
52:3305/06/2024
Arts Express 5-29-24 Featuring Actor Nick Stahl
* Nick Stahl delves into his latest offbeat economic crisis cinema, political horror venture with What You Wish For, and Keep Quiet
* Tribute to poet Connie Norgren
* Bro on "The New Repression On College Campuses As The Return Of The Red Scare"
* The Five Minute Marxist with Peter Wise
* Garland Nixon on media lies
52:4130/05/2024
Arts Express 5-22-24 Featuring Actor Eric Bana
* Eric Bana Talks Force Of Nature, Hulk, and Berlin Nobody
* Garland Nixon & Scott Ritter watch Nero Blinken Fiddle While Rome Burns: Culture and chaos on the world stage
* Bro Talks With Historian Juan Cole - One More Just War, Or Just One More War?
52:3923/05/2024
Arts Express 5-14-23 Featuring Jane Seymour
* Jane Seymour Talks Ruby's Choice, Harry Wild...and that casting couch
* Taking Venice: How The US manipulated the 1964 Venice Biennale
* Broe on his latest noir detective mystery, The House That Buff Built
* Garland Nixon on whom Biden really represents
52:3815/05/2024
Arts Express 5-8-24 Featuring Musician Lionel Cole
* Musician Lionel Cole on being inspired by his uncle Nat King Cole
* George Galloway and Scott Ritter on The Passion of Protest
* The White House Correspondents Dinner: Dissecting the gathering
* Bro at Cannes and the Spring Global TV Preview
53:3309/05/2024
Arts Express 4-30-24 Featuring Actor James Norton
* Nowhere Special: A Conversation With James Norton And Director Uberto Pasolini
* Walled Off: Banksy's West Bank Hotel
* Bro on live streaming genocide
* Garland Nixon on endless war on two fronts
54:2601/05/2024
Arts Express 4-24-24 Featuring Mario Van Peebles
* Mario Van Peebles Talks Outlaw Posse and the buried post-Civil War history of race and class
* King Lear: Apocalypse Now!
* Bro on Vietnam spy thriller The Sympathizer
* Garland Nixon on Good Cop/Bad Cop
52:3725/04/2024
Arts Express 4-17-24 Featuring Larry Fessenden
* Two Movies, Two Killer Moons: Larry Fessenden Talks Blackout, and Killers Of The Flower Moon
* Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story, a new doc on the famed Asian-American photographer
* Bro on the "3 Body Problem"
* Garland Nixon on Epstein Island
52:4818/04/2024
Arts Express 4-10-24 Featuring Director Maggie Greenwald
* A Conversation With director Maggie Greenwald on the re-release of her unconventional Western, The Ballad Of Little Jo
* Garland Nixon on the Empire of Imbeciles
* Broe talks with Israeli Palestinian scholar and Film Studies Professor Terri Ginsberg
52:5910/04/2024
Arts Express 4-3-24 Featuring George Lopez
** George Lopez: The politically fueled standup comic is joined by cast members of his socially conscious sitcom, Lopez vs. Lopez
** Broe on Jonathan Glazer's Gaza genocide Oscar speech
** Team Human: Douglas Rushkoff's tale of tech dehumanization
** And Garland Nixon
52:4404/04/2024
Arts Express 3-26-24 Featuring Olivia Colman
* Wicked Little Letters: Olivia Colman's new film explores how women cursing became an expression of defiance and liberation
* The Berman Murders: Doug Kari on an unsolved crime in the CA desert 40 years ago
* Garland Nixon on the attack on Moscow
52:4228/03/2024
Arts Express 3-20-24 Featuring Beau Bridges
* The Neon Highway and Matlock Reboot: A Conversation With Beau Bridges
* Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha's poem "The Wounds" on the December 2008 Israeli War on Gaza
* Bro On How The West Was Lost - Examining the Alec Baldwin Rust debacle
* and Garland Nixon
52:4221/03/2024
Arts Express 3-13-24 Featuring Terence Blanchard
* Up From The Streets: A Conversation With Jazz Musician/Composer, Terence Blanchard
* Actor David Morse Talks Cabrini, the film about the famous Italian American immigrant nun
* Bro On Mass Media Wars Then And Now
* and Garland Nixon on NATO paper tigers
53:1112/03/2024
Arts Express 3-6-24 Featuring Tim Blake Nelson
* Tim Blake Nelson Talks Asleep In My Palm, Captain America: Brave New World
* A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
* Corporate Media Shilling For Global Arms Dealers
* Macron's Napoleonic delusions
52:4407/03/2024
Arts Express 2-28-24 Featuring Actor Jon Seda
** Actor Jon Seda discusses Selena, La Brea, Carlito's Way and his role with Richard Dreyfuss in the upcoming Into The Deep
** Americonned: Time To Rise, probing the Sean Claffey documentary
** Israel's Genocide from two sides
** And Garland Nixon on Let's Start Here
52:4429/02/2024
Arts Express 2-21-24 Featuring Actress Virginia Madsen
* Actress Virginia Madsen talks Surviving Middle America and Hollywood, and her latest movie as a damaged mother in Lola
* Steven Wright's new surrealist novel, Harold
* "Fat": From Will You Please Be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver
* How to Hide an Empire
52:5122/02/2024
Arts Express 2-14-24 Featuring Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
** Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Talks Amelie, Alien Resurrection, And The Farmer Uprisings
** Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: "Vienna - City Of Contrasts And Contradictions"
** Garland Nixon on the US race for President
52:3714/02/2024
Arts Express 2-7-24 Featuring Cheryl Hines
* Cheryl Hines Talks The Two Men In Her Life, RFK Jr. and Larry David, and Popular Theory
* RU$E - Lying The American Dream: From Hollywood To Wall Street
* George A. Romero's Independent Cinema
* Garland Nixon on Genocide Joe
52:4208/02/2024
Arts Express1-31-24 Featuring Ted Bundy survivor Kathy Kleiner Rubin
* A Light In The Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy-Kathy Kleiner Rubin on her determination to prevail
* Caitlin Johnstone's "Child Killing Murder Robot" & more
* Folk Horror On Film - Return Of The British Repressed
* Garland Nixon on weaponizing words
52:3502/02/2024
Arts Express 1-24-24 Featuring Actor Ian McShane
* Ian McShane talks American Star and the John Wick sequel, Ballerina
* Until Tomorrow, Comrades: Eric Gordon on Portuguese revolutionary Manuel Tiago's novel
* "The Power Of Film": a personal exploration of screen classics with Brett Gregory
* Garland Nixon on NATO and Euro-scam
52:4325/01/2024
Arts Express 1-17-24 Featuring Sean Mattison's Colombian Doc "Petro" at Slamdance
** Sean Mattison Talks Petro, new Colombian documentary at Slamdance: how a former guerrilla became President
** Franz Kafka's Before the Law and An Imperial Message
** Bro looks at the Best and Worst TV Series of the Year
** And Garland Nixon on Hollywood propaganda
52:3717/01/2024
Arts Express 1-10-23 Featuring Filmmaker James Ivory
** James Ivory Talks Merchant Ivory and that historic filmmaking team in a new film doc directed by Stephen Soucy
* Brett Gregory interviews Matt Alford on Julian Assange's Final Extradition Appeal
* Karl Marx, Private Eye!
* Garland Nixon on the narcissistic US empire
52:4111/01/2024
Arts Express 1-3-23 Featuring Actor Sawyer Spielberg
* Sawyer Spielberg on being directed by his father in The Post, along starring in the upcoming 9/11 thriller, Martyr Of Gowanus
* Brett Gregory Down and Out In the UK
* Bro on his new noir, The House That Buff Built
* Policing Thought crimes here and in Israel
52:4304/01/2024
Arts Express 12-27-23 Featuring Actor Matthew Goode
* Freud's Last Session: A Conversation With Matthew Goode, who portrays author C.S. Lewis
* "Palestine A-Z" by Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha
* How The Pentagon And The CIA Took Hollywood: Filmmaker Matthew Alford
* Garland Nixon on Christian Zionism
53:4127/12/2023
Arts Express 12-20-23 Featuring Stafford Braxton of ”American Santa”
* Stafford Braxton Talks "American Santa." Superheroes don't always wear capes
* Bro On The Television Season Of Our Discontent: streaming and strikes in 2023
* "Godard Cinema" - Brett Gregory deconstructs the enigma of Jean-Luc Godard
52:4420/12/2023
Arts Express 12-13-23 Featuring Actor Ed Begley Jr.
** Ed Begley Jr. on his new memoir, To The Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!
** Part 2 with the author of the new bio, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
** The Success Of Failure: "Movies So Bad, They're Good"
** Garland Nixon on Hollywood propaganda
52:3914/12/2023
Arts Express 12-6-23 Featuring Actor Steve Schirripa
* Actor Steve Schirripa Talks The Sopranos, Blue Bloods
* Becoming Ella Fitzgerald with author Judith Tick
* A Conversation With David Archibald - the Scottish professor and performer on Tracking Ken Loach
* Garland Nixon on Gaza
52:3707/12/2023
Arts Express 11-29-23 Featuring Adrien Brody
* Adrien Brody Talks Masculine Identity In Crisis in his new film Manodrome
* Israelism: A new film doc on American Jewish youth turning against Zionism.
* The homeless crisis gets personal
* Garland Nixon on the pirates of the American Empire
53:4230/11/2023
Arts Express 11-22-23 Featuring Aaron Neville
* Black and Choctaw Native American Aaron Neville talks Music and Memoir: Tell It Like It Is, My Story
* Pepe Escobar on the Mummy and Xi
* Werner Herzog, Radical Dreamer
* Garland Nixon on the Colonial Wound
53:0322/11/2023