Arts Express

Arts Express 9-24-22 Featuring Actor William Moseley

* Actor William Moseley talks about playing Edgar Allan Poe in Raven's Hollow
* Fighting Times: Union activist and hellraiser Jon Melrod on his new memoir about his UAW years and his hope for the new generation

Arts Express 9-14-22 Featuring The Umbrella Men at the Toronto FIlm Festival

** The Umbrella Men at the Toronto Film Festival: A new satirical film about a Cape Town crime spree as musicians lock horns with a bank scheming to take over their local performance space 
** The CIA and the Hollywood Industrial Complex
** How Fox News Lies For Big Business

Arts Express 9-10-22 Featuring Tony Danza

** Tony Danza Talks Tupac, Taxi, Collaborating With MC Hammer And James Brown, and his new one-man show** Patton Oswalt tries on a new hat as movie critic ** Mark Twain's once censored "War Prayer"

Arts Express 9-03-22 Featuring Actress Jena Malone

* Jena Malone Talks Adopting Audrey: in which her film character Audrey  embarks in search of adult adoption for her economic survival
* Labor Day Weekend Films: memorable films of union and workplace struggle
* More Russian pranksters with Ian McKellan

Arts Express 8-27-22 Featuring Actress/Comedian Rachel Dratch

* Rachel Dratch as the unconventional girlfriend in I Love My Dad; The Principal in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse; and her iconic SNL character, Debbie Downer
*"Taken for Granted:" Why we need to overcome underwriting
* And Russian pranksters!

Arts Express 8-20-22 Featuring Actor Emile Hirsch

* A Conversation With Actor Emile Hirsch who stars in The Immaculate Room, more Economic Crisis Cinema
* Uncancelling the war news, we air CBS's cancelled 'Arming Ukraine' - The Director's Cut

Arts Express 8-13-22 Featuring Patton Oswalt

** Patton Oswalt Talks Hot Weather and his new film, I Love My Dad
** AE Playhouse: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "If I Were A Man"
** Bro on "Mr. Caruso Goes To Town": channeling Frank Capra to whitewash corporate developers

Arts Express 8-6-22 Featuring Actor Christopher Serrone

** Christopher Serrone Talks Goodbye Goodfellas. The actor was just 12 when he starred as the young Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.
** Art And Violence: Gun Show artist David Hess makes mock guns to promote discussion
** Bro On Chinese Cinema and Biden's Neo-Cons 

Arts Express 7-30-22 Featuring Alan Cumming

** Cabaret and GoldenEye actor Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod talk about their true story of deception, My Old School
** Nana Mensah Talks Queen Of Glory and finding the humanity of the central character Meeko, a Latin Kings gang member turned actor

Arts Express 7-21-22 Featuring Actress Natascha McElhone

** Hotel Portofino: Natascha McElhone as the proprietor of a deceptively serene hotel, dodging Italian fascists. She also talks about Surviving Picasso and her new film Carmen.
** You're Not My Enemy, The Media Is: the "Media outrage machine."

Arts Express 7-16-22 Featuring Musician Jim Messina

* Jim Messina looks back on his musical journey, his latest album, tour, and Loggins & Messina
* Bro On The Global Television Beat: How To Organize A Union: 'The Porter' And Black Militancy 
* A performance of poet Kenneth Patchen, featuring Arts Express crew actress extraordinaire, Mary Murphy

Arts Express 7-09-22 Featuring Montel Williams

* A Conversation With Montel Williams. About racism and his latest film - When George Floyd Got Murdered.
* "Meet Juan Guaido": Frank Capra's 1941 populist comedy Meet John Doe - rerun as imperialist farce.
* F. Kafka's "Before the Law"