Arts Express

* 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

** 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

** 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

** 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

** 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* Noah Wylie Talks At The Gates, ER Memories, and strike resolution.  * The Poetry Of Caitlin Johnstone. "In Times Such as These" * Brett Gregory probes the film essay Looking Forward * Dennis Broe on mind-numbing media spectacle * Garland Nixon on the monsters who rule

* The Shirelles' Beverly Lee talks the groundbreaking 60s girl groups  * A Creature Wanting Form: author Luke O'Neil in conversation about his fiction & non-fiction * Actors' strike update with actor/filmmaker Harley Wallen * Garland Nixon on genocide

* Terrence Howard Talks Empire, Hustle & Flow, and his upcoming Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley * AE Fave Mary Murphy discusses film, theater, tv, animation, video games, voice acting, and the actors' strike  * Garland Nixon on "Why We Blow Ourselves Up"

* Alicia Witt Talks Movies, Music, And The Continuing Actors Struggle * Miguel Gardel reads from his short story, "Blues In America" * Peter Wise discourses on the 9 minute Nietzsche * Garland Nixon on Trainwreck America

* Henry Thomas talks his films and series from ET to Fall of the House of Usher * Luke O'Neil's short story "Thy Kingdom Come" from A Creature Wanting Form * The Stones And Brian Jones: Deciphering the Nick Broomfield doc * Garland Nixon on the so-called "rules-based"  order

* Diallo Riddle Talks One Song, The Hollywood Strikes, And What Exactly Is A Moonlighting DJ * Ian Scott: American Politics In Hollywood Film * Mary Murphy reads selections from the poetry of Mary Oliver * Peter WIse: 9 minute Nietzche and Garland Nixon

* A Tale of Two Prison Dramas: Actress Siobhan Fallon in Shelter in Solitude and Eileen * Brett Gregory deconstructs Norman Finkelstein's new book * Singer/songwriter Nellie McKay talks about Hey Guys, Watch This * Peter Wise on The 9 minute Nietzsche

* Madison Molloy on "Comedy in a woke world," as a woman speaking her mind * Blue collar wordsmith Miguel Gardel reads his short story, "Religious" * Peter Wise's gallery tour of the artist and the renegade  * Garland Nixon on US foreign policy hypocrisy

* Michael Rapaport talks DeNiro, Walken, strikes, and stand-up comedy * Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World's Economy * Brett Gregory on the Drive In: Outdoor Cinema In 1950s America * Mitchel Cohen's anti-war memory lane excursion

* Brian Goodman, who has worked with the best, walks the picket line * Garland Nixon on Malcolm X and Africa Rising * Brett Gregory's memoir,  "I Used to be Jewish" * Caitlin Johnstone on Capitol Hill psychopaths * Dennis Broe on the Hollywood strikes

* Golden Age of Hollywood Actress Terry Moore on "Silent Life: The Story Of The Lady In Black," about the mystery rose woman at Valentino's grave. *Brett Gregory on Identity Politics, Horror, Marxism And the Hayes Code  *Garland Nixon on "Who Am I?"