Arts Express

* 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

* 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