Arts Express

Arts Express 8-27-25 Featuring Patricia Clarkson

* 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!

Arts Express 8-20-25 Featuring Director Oliver Assayas

* 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!

Arts Express 8-13-25 Featuring Michael Chernus

* 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!

Arts Express 8-6-25 Featuring Jim O'Heir

* 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!

Arts Express 7-29-25 Featuring Thomas Jane

* 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!

Arts Express 7-23-25 Featuring Lou Diamond Phillips

* 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!

Arts Express 7-16-25 Featuring James Mockoski

* 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! 

Arts Express 7-9-25 Featuring Maggie Q

* 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!

Arts Express 7-2-25 Featuring Actress Dale Dickey

* 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!

Arts Express 6-25-25 Featuring Ed Begley Jr.

* 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!

Arts Express 6-18-25 Featuring Seth Green

* 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

Arts Express 6-11-25 Featuring Nina Conti

* 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!