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Episodes

October 15, 2025 52 mins

* Malcolm McDowell Talks The Partisan, His Rupert Murdoch in Bombshell, Dog & Bull, and memories of Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange * Broe on the South African thriller series, Lioness * Why Grant Wood's American Gothic became iconic * & Garland Nixon!

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* Crispin Glover Talks Mr. K, Orson Welles, and 'navigating within the corporate structure of the film world...' * Newport & the Great Folk Dream, a continuing conversation * Broe on 'cabbages versus caviar' in the crime series, Marked * & Garland Nixon!

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* The PBS investigative crime drama series, Maigret: An interview with its writer, Patrick Harbinson

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* The Daily Show: A Conversation With Head Writer, Dan Amira --Who's Calling the Shots? * Newport And The Great Folk Dream: a look back to a crucial musical marker * Broe with a 2nd wave report from the streets of Paris * And Garland Nixon!

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* Charlie McDowell Talks The Summer Book, His Dad Malcolm McDowell, Dear White People - & his uncredited bully in Curb Your Enthusiasm * AE Paris Correspondent Broe on Trump's defunding of public tv & radio - the sledgehammer solution * Flags Half Mast at Guantanamo's McDonalds * & Garland Nixon!

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*Tim Blake Nelson Talks Bang Bang, as a down & out Detroit ex-boxer. Also, The Lowdown, & Nelson's status as a continuing master of many movie hats * More Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News * Broe reports on the mass rage on the streets of Paris * & Garland Nixon!

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September 10, 2025 53 mins

* Chris Cooper Talks The History Of Sound, the journey of two WWI era music conservationists who record and preserve rural ballads; & John Sayles' Matewan  * Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News, with author Alec Karakatsanis * & Garland Nixon!

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September 4, 2025 52 mins

* The Knife: Melissa Leo on playing a deceptively concerned sinister cop in her new film; & also, her turn as Laura Poitras in Snowden * Bro on the new Manchurian candidates * Painting Klansmen: How Philip Guston explored themes of violence, evil and complicity * & Garland Nixon!

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* Lilly: Patricia Clarkson as real life blue collar worker Lilly Ledbetter, fighting Goodyear Tire--and prevailing! * Action Will Be Taken--a comic Labor Noir  * In The Disruption: On the writings of philosopher and former bank robber, Bernard Stiegler * & Garland Nixon!

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* Suspended Time: Oliver Assayas talks about his existential voyage through the Covid lockdown. Also Carlos, and his Putin in Wizard Of The Kremlin

* Return to Fukushima, an irradiated world * Bro on The Summit, Who Wants Peace? * And Garland Nixon!

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* Michael Chernus Talks Birthrite, Orange Is The New Black, and playing Theo Bikel in A Complete Unknown * Return to Fukushima: the false promise and real danger of nuclear power with investigative journalist Thomas Bass * And Garland Nixon!

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* Actor Jim O'Heir Talks Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles,  Parks And Recreation, & Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery Dinner Party *  AE Paris Correspondent Dennis Broe on the EU tariff surrender, weapons, Ukraine, & blackmail *  On the 80th anniversary of the US horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima, some reflections... * & Garland Nixon!

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* Thomas Jane Talks Hung, Breaking Bad, and  Murder At Yellowstone City: the western genre as wild west police state allegory * Nautilus - a reimagining of Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea * Red Star Cafe: Denzel Washington on propaganda * & Garland Nixon!

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* Lou Diamond Phillips: La Bamba, Che, Stand And Deliver - and among the miners trapped in The 33 * Union: Pt 2 convo on the Amazon Labor Union film doc  * Red Star Cafe: who is Vera Caspary, linking McCarthyism, film noir, and Gaza * & Garland Nixon!

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* Apocalypse Now, Megalopolis, Godfather III & more- A Conversation with Coppola collaborator James Mockoski * Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing talk Union: fighting for the first Amazon union in the nation * And Garland Nixon! 

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* Talking With Maggie Q: Ballard--a disturbing look at the LAPD where 'the way things were may not exist anymore...' * Shifty: The Land Of Make Believe. Thought in the age of AI, a 5 part BBC series * Red Star Cafe with Trump turning up on July 4th in Iowa * & Garland Nixon!

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* Tough-as-nails Winter Bones actress Dale Dickey Talks Feminist Fatale political crime thriller The G, Breaking Bad, and Kissyfoot * The NYC Dem Primary Victory Of Zohran Mamdani: two views * Reframing the 4th of July, politics & poetry * & Garland Nixon!

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* Ed Begley Jr. Talks The Workplace Noir Don't Tell Larry, as well as the LA uprisings and his blue collar, character actor father * Cabbages and Kings: Mass protest in Brooklyn falls short * 5 Minute Marxist at the Red Star Cafe talks warmonger Lindsey Graham * And Garland Nixon!

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* Seth Green Talks The Floaters, Comedy In A Broken World - and what's going down on the streets of LA * UK Desk: John Cliffords  on The US Water Crisis * The Toxic Masculinity Family Tree: Errol Musk speaks * Juneteenth: 'Gates Of Toil' A poetic tribute

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* Sunlight, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues: A Conversation with UK puppeteer Nina Conti * The One Minute Marxist: Red Iowa, a look at Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, Medicaid and death * UK Desk: The Birmingham garbage strike  * And Garland Nixon!

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