Arts Express

Arts Express

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May 20, 2026 52 mins

* William Moseley Talks An Enemy Within, His Edgar Allan Poe - imperialists, scapegoats, and wolves * Mitchel Cohen's recording of US political prisoner Assata Shakur in exile * Bro on Verdi's Falstaff * & Garland Nixon!

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*LifeHack: Tim Burton's Wednesday Actor Georgie Farmer In Conversation * Remembering Mitchel Cohen In Spirit And Song * Bro on "Your TV is handcuffing your rights!" * & Garland Nixon!

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* Patty McCormack Talks The Bad Seed, Her Pat Nixon, The Sopranos * Broe with the "Spring TV Preview - The good, the bad, and the bland..." * Trump gluttony awards binge * & Garland Nixon!

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* Judy Greer Talks Mabel, White House Plumbers - and the troubling film world today * Screening Room: For this May Day week, Taxi Driver. Shawn Grenier probes the case of Martin Scorsese's ex-Marine, Travis Bickle * & Garland Nixon!

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* American Solitaire: A Conversation With Joshua Close. And also Close in Kill The Messenger, the true story of reporter Rich Klein & the CIA murder of whistleblower Gary Webb

* Speaking Of Lucifer: An Art Spirito Excursion

* & Garland Nixon!

 

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* Emmanuelle Chriqui Talks A Love Like This, Cadillac Records. And raising the question with her latest film, do males and females watch movies differently? * Bro on Israeli censorship *Shawn Grenier: The Artist as Criminal * & Garland Nixon!

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* Jim O'Heir Talks His Fanatical Pastor Stu In The Religious Satire, Premarital *  Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian writes directly to the American people * The US Goes Biblical - Garland Nixon on the Pentagon's Easter season of mandatory holy war * & more!

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* Jill Hennessy Talks Hope Valley, Nuremberg, I Shot Andy Warhol * Artists And Fascism - And The Road To Donald Trump. Shawn Grenier on fascist self-portraits * Musical celebration of Spring: Lionelle Hamanaka and composer Daniel Kessner * & Garland Nixon!

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* Sheila McCarthy Talks The Well, Miniature Wife, And Her Ukrainian Witch... * Broe unmasking the AI bubble behind closed doors  as he asks,  "Is AI simply a massive plagiarism device - stealing the knowledge of the world...?" * & Garland Nixon!

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* Crucible: Henry Ford, Workers, And War; A Conversation w/ filmmaker and author John Sayles about his new historical novel

* Miriam Margolyes Talks A Friend of Dorothy, Reds, Holy Days, And Memories Of Diane Keaton. And this British star & advocate for Palestine also speaks of The Age of Innocence and her portrayal of Professor Sprout in Harry Potter

* And Garland Nixon!

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* Miriam Margolyes Talks A Friend of Dorothy, Reds, Holy Days, And Memories Of Diane Keaton. And this British star & advocate for Palestine also speaks of The Age of Innocence and her portrayal of Professor Sprout in Harry Potter

* Crucible: Henry Ford, Workers, And War--A Conversation with John Sayles

* & Garland Nixon!

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* Oscar Week, Immigration, Diversity On Screen: A Conversation With Yvett Merino * Broe on Hollywood, Vegas, the porn industry, the mob, gambling and the working class * Religious Lunatics News * & Garland Nixon!

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* Wanda Sykes Talks Undercard, And Her Moms Mabley in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel * "Susie Wiles, JD Vance, & The Junkyard Dogs": Canvas essayist Shawn Grenier unravels the politics of those enigmatic Trump Cabinet portraits in Vanity Fair * & Garland Nixon!

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* Return To Silent Hill: A Conversation with Jeremy Irvine. The Outlander actor in a conversation about the doomsday fantasy thriller  * More talk with performer, composer, Woody Guthrie Fellow & immigration court activist, Andy Teirstein * Bro on The House of Pedophiles * & Garland Nixon!

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* William Forsythe Talks The Roaring Game - And His John Gacy, Al Capone, J. Edgar Hoover And Jake LaMotta

* Activist, performer, & composer Andy Teirstein on immigration court and teaching music in prison

* Bro on Macron & the bankers

* The Dances With Films Festival, a discussion about Stop Time

* & Garland Nixon!

 

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* Miranda Richardson Talks The Yellow Tie, Her Eva Braun, And Surviving T.S. Eliot, Churchill, And British Union Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley In Her Movies * The Bulldog: A conversation with the filmmakers, who return to the scene of the crime - the site of the East Palestine, Ohio railroad derailment and chemical spill disaster * Bro On The Art of Scamming * & Garland Nixon!

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February 4, 2026 52 mins

* Sam Riley Talks Islands, Mint, and his Jack Kerouac - along with his 'cool, dark overcoat' in Doves, and breakout role as Joy Division's Ian Curtis in Control * More Bird City with Ryan Goldberg * Bro on the BBC & the working class * & Garland Nixon!

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January 28, 2026 52 mins

* Claire Foy Talks H Is For Hawk, Ink.  The UK actress in a conversation about her portrayal of Helen Macdonald, in this film memoir of Macdonald and her press photographer father * Bird City: A Conversation With Author Ryan Goldberg, Adventures in the NYC Urban Wilds * Broe debuts his new online show * & Garland Nixon!

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* Vondie Curtis-Hall Talks Sheepdog, The Projectionist. And his portrayal as a mentally destroyed Vietnam veteran in Sheepdog * UK Desk: Greenland--boats, billionaires, and news cycles * Bro on Top Ten of the Year * Renee Good poetry * & Garland Nixon!

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* Michael Mosley Talks Signing Tony Raymond, Ballard, The Savant. A conversation about his latest satirical film during this football season

* Luke O'Neil's new short fictions, "We Had It Coming"

*Movies 2025 Wrap-Up Report:  Broe on the worst of the worst. 

* & Garland Nixon! Plus...Venezuela, ICE, Greenland... 

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