* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!