Arts Express

** John Ridley Talks Shirley: The African-American filmmaker discusses his new graphic novel and his biopic, Shirley, about Shirley Chisolm, the first black Congresswoman and first black woman to run for President ** Arts Express Crime Scenes Edition: US Gangsterism and how it plays out around the world: Lionel and Garland Nixon

* Mia Wasikowska talks Blueback, playing a child of environmentalists who struggles against corporations destroying ocean life * Poet Connie Norgren reads recent poems * Bro on Diana Dors vs. Marilyn Monroe * An International Women's Day arts celebration

* Screen legend Charlotte Rampling talks Juniper, playing WWII correspondent Martha Gelhorn * Dennis Broe reads from his latest noir thriller, The Precinct With The Golden Arm. * A tribute to comedians Bob & Ray.

** Mamie Van Doren, the 1950's screen star on her latest memoir, China And Me ** Garland Nixon on Sy Hersh's Nordstream 2 pipeline revelations ** The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Tech Of Occupation  ** Peter Wise: From the Military to Marx

** Annabeth Gish Talks Little Dixie and playing women in settings dominated by men while holding her own ** The French director Gaspar Noe discusses the re-release of Irreversible as the Straight Cut. ** Screening Room: "Why Beauty Is Killing Cinema"

** William Shatner Talks "Beam Me Up!" On Tour and the acting legend's lifelong Captain Kirk identity crisis.  ** Garland Nixon and Lionel on the psychology of balloons! ** The Quiet Epidemic: the new film doc on the mysteries of chronic Lyme disease

* "My Father Muhammad Ali": A Conversation With Muhammad Ali Jr. about his confounding documentary * Propaganda, the possibility of nuclear war, and the price of eggs...Garland Nixon breaks it down * The Screening Room: "The Con Artist in Films"

** David Arquette on playing a shady oil exec in On Sacred Ground ** Garland Nixon talks whistleblowing and leaving FOX news ** Unpacking the theater of 3 card monte

** A Conversation With Sheila McCarthy, who talks of I Heard The Mermaids Singing  and her latest film, Women Talking. ** Bro on "The Business of Streaming" ** Screening Room: The Darkest Philosopher In History: Arthur Schopenhauer

** Joe Berlinger Talks Madoff: The Monster Of Wall Street and The System ** Garland Nixon on "What I Learned in 2022" ** Angola Do You Hear Us: Voices From A Plantation Prison, with playwright Liza Jessie Peterson and director Cinque Northern

** Actress Mena Suvari talks The Accursed and playing Jane Wyman ** Political analyst Garland Nixon on the Weaponization of Rage ** Fools for love in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

** 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