Arts Express

** Actress Monica Bellucci talks playing the star in Maria Callas, Letters and Memories, and Anita Ekberg in The Girl In The Fountain ** Dennis Broe picks the year's best and worst streaming series ** An Arts Express "thank you" poem to the year's guests and crew

* UK filmmaker Brett Gregory talks Nobody Loves You And You Don't Deserve To Exist * Musician Holly Herndon deep-fakes us--or does she? * "The Strange History Of Black People In Horror Movies"

* Edgar Winter Talks Brother Johnny,  a new album tribute to his late rocker brother, Johnny Winter * 2nd Chance: Ramin Bahrani's documentary involving bulletproof vests and fascism * Bro on Social Realist TV: "Escaping The Corporate Streaming Bubble"

** From Bergman To Bully: Swedish actor Peter Stormare Talks John Wick, Food And Romance. * Analyst Garland Nixon tells tales of Twitter censorship *AE Playhouse: "Hamlet and the All-seeing Eye of Surveillance"

* Tom Arnold talks MVP, a reality-based sports drama channeling PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and homelessness * The Home Shopping Weapons Network: straight from our warehouses to the consumer for the holidays! * The Dark Web

** Veteran actor Judd Hirsch talks The Fabelmans and more ** A new translation of the Daodejing **  Kayla Popuchet on Neo-Nazis in the House

* James Hemings: Ghost In America's Kitchen. A Conversation with Ashbell McElveen on a new film about Sally Hemings' enslaved kin James * Arts Express Playhouse: Selections from the Grammy nominated opera X: The Life And Times Of Malcolm X

** Actor Kim Coates Talks The White House Plumbers and Double Down South ** Eat The Rich - The Politics Of Thanksgiving. Mulling food, power - and the starving masses turning up at Downing Street

* CNN Host Don Lemon Cancelled - Financial Fallout Or Political Payback? * Julian Assange In His Own Words: A gathering of activist and radio voices, from the speeches and writings of Assange * Bro On The Global TV Beat: Something's Rotten In NATO

** Jordana Brewster Talks Who Invited Charlie, the Fast & Furious series and the upcoming Fast X  ** The Same Storm: Director Peter Hedges on his intimate portrait of 24 characters with the pandemic as a backdrop ** Halloween movies!

* Jon Voight Talks Dangerous Game: The Coming Home actor once again plays a damaged Vietnam vet in the horror drama. * Leaving World War II Behind: Anti-war activist David Swanson challenges the notion of a Good War *The CIA and Abstract Art

** Inger Tudor of Voodoo Macbeth talks about playing Rose McClendon in Orson Welles's Federal Theater Project production of Macbeth ** Dennis Broe on Documenta 2 and the Berlin Berlinale art festivals

** Stephen Lang talks his new psychological thriller Old Man, and the new and upcoming Avatar sequels ** Book Corner: A Public Service: Whistleblowing, Disclosure And Anonymity. A guide for whistleblowers ** Nighthawks: the art and mind of Edward Hopper

* Andrea Riseborough Talks Amsterdam, and To Leslie * InHospitable, the new film documentary on the corrupt hospital industry * Broe on the Documenta Festival

* Actor William Moseley talks about playing Edgar Allan Poe in Raven's Hollow * Fighting Times: Union activist and hellraiser Jon Melrod on his new memoir about his UAW years and his hope for the new generation

** The Umbrella Men at the Toronto Film Festival: A new satirical film about a Cape Town crime spree as musicians lock horns with a bank scheming to take over their local performance space  ** The CIA and the Hollywood Industrial Complex ** How Fox News Lies For Big Business

** Tony Danza Talks Tupac, Taxi, Collaborating With MC Hammer And James Brown, and his new one-man show ** Patton Oswalt tries on a new hat as movie critic  ** Mark Twain's once censored "War Prayer"

* Jena Malone Talks Adopting Audrey: in which her film character Audrey  embarks in search of adult adoption for her economic survival * Labor Day Weekend Films: memorable films of union and workplace struggle * More Russian pranksters with Ian McKellan

* Rachel Dratch as the unconventional girlfriend in I Love My Dad; The Principal in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse; and her iconic SNL character, Debbie Downer *"Taken for Granted:" Why we need to overcome underwriting * And Russian pranksters!

* A Conversation With Actor Emile Hirsch who stars in The Immaculate Room, more Economic Crisis Cinema * Uncancelling the war news, we air CBS's cancelled 'Arming Ukraine' - The Director's Cut

** Patton Oswalt Talks Hot Weather and his new film, I Love My Dad ** AE Playhouse: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "If I Were A Man" ** Bro on "Mr. Caruso Goes To Town": channeling Frank Capra to whitewash corporate developers

** Christopher Serrone Talks Goodbye Goodfellas. The actor was just 12 when he starred as the young Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. ** Art And Violence: Gun Show artist David Hess makes mock guns to promote discussion ** Bro On Chinese Cinema and Biden's Neo-Cons 

** Cabaret and GoldenEye actor Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod talk about their true story of deception, My Old School ** Nana Mensah Talks Queen Of Glory and finding the humanity of the central character Meeko, a Latin Kings gang member turned actor

** Hotel Portofino: Natascha McElhone as the proprietor of a deceptively serene hotel, dodging Italian fascists. She also talks about Surviving Picasso and her new film Carmen. ** You're Not My Enemy, The Media Is: the "Media outrage machine."

* Jim Messina looks back on his musical journey, his latest album, tour, and Loggins & Messina * Bro On The Global Television Beat: How To Organize A Union: 'The Porter' And Black Militancy  * A performance of poet Kenneth Patchen, featuring Arts Express crew actress extraordinaire, Mary Murphy