Arts Express

Arts Express 1-17-24 Featuring Sean Mattison's Colombian Doc "Petro" at Slamdance

** Sean Mattison Talks Petro, new Colombian documentary at Slamdance: how a former guerrilla became President** Franz Kafka's Before the Law and An Imperial Message** Bro looks at the Best and Worst TV Series of the Year** And Garland Nixon on Hollywood propaganda

Arts Express 1-10-23 Featuring Filmmaker James Ivory

** James Ivory Talks Merchant Ivory and that historic filmmaking team in a new film doc directed by Stephen Soucy* Brett Gregory interviews Matt Alford on Julian Assange's Final Extradition Appeal* Karl Marx, Private Eye! * Garland Nixon on the narcissistic US empire

Arts Express 1-3-23 Featuring Actor Sawyer Spielberg

* Sawyer Spielberg on being directed by his father in The Post, along starring in the upcoming  9/11 thriller, Martyr Of Gowanus* Brett Gregory Down and Out In the UK* Bro on his new noir, The House That Buff Built* Policing Thought crimes here and in Israel

Arts Express 12-27-23 Featuring Actor Matthew Goode

* Freud's Last Session: A Conversation With Matthew Goode, who portrays author C.S. Lewis* "Palestine A-Z" by Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha* How The Pentagon And The CIA Took Hollywood: Filmmaker Matthew Alford * Garland Nixon on Christian Zionism

Arts Express 12-20-23 Featuring Stafford Braxton of ”American Santa”

* Stafford Braxton Talks "American Santa." Superheroes don't always wear capes* Bro On The Television Season Of Our Discontent: streaming and strikes in 2023* "Godard Cinema" - Brett Gregory deconstructs the enigma of Jean-Luc Godard

Arts Express 12-13-23 Featuring Actor Ed Begley Jr.

** Ed Begley Jr. on his new memoir, To The Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!** Part 2 with the author of the new bio, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald** The Success Of Failure: "Movies So Bad, They're Good"** Garland Nixon on Hollywood propaganda

Arts Express 12-6-23 Featuring Actor Steve Schirripa

* Actor Steve Schirripa Talks The Sopranos, Blue Bloods* Becoming Ella Fitzgerald with author Judith Tick* A Conversation With David Archibald - the Scottish professor and performer on Tracking Ken Loach* Garland Nixon on Gaza

Arts Express 11-29-23 Featuring Adrien Brody

* Adrien Brody Talks Masculine Identity In Crisis in his new film Manodrome* Israelism: A new film doc on American Jewish youth turning against Zionism.* The homeless crisis gets personal* Garland Nixon on the pirates of the American Empire

Arts Express 11-22-23 Featuring Aaron Neville

* Black and Choctaw Native American Aaron Neville talks Music and Memoir: Tell It Like It Is, My Story* Pepe Escobar on the Mummy and Xi* Werner Herzog, Radical Dreamer* Garland Nixon on the Colonial Wound

Arts Express 11-15-23 Featuring Actor Noah Wylie

* Noah Wylie Talks At The Gates, ER Memories, and strike resolution. * The Poetry Of Caitlin Johnstone. "In Times Such as These"* Brett Gregory probes the film essay Looking Forward* Dennis Broe on mind-numbing media spectacle* Garland Nixon on the monsters who rule

Arts Express 11-8-23 Featuring the Shirelles’ Beverly Lee

* The Shirelles' Beverly Lee talks the groundbreaking 60s girl groups * A Creature Wanting Form: author Luke O'Neil in conversation about his fiction & non-fiction* Actors' strike update with actor/filmmaker Harley Wallen* Garland Nixon on genocide

Arts Express 11-1-23 Featuring Actor Terrence Howard

* Terrence Howard Talks Empire, Hustle & Flow, and his upcoming Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley
* AE Fave Mary Murphy discusses film, theater, tv, animation, video games, voice acting, and the actors' strike 
* Garland Nixon on "Why We Blow Ourselves Up"