** "Did I say that..."

K Callan Talks Sew Torn, Playing Mothers Of Superman and John The Baptist In Movies - and memories of the late Peter Boyle as his wife in 'Joe.'

With the 89 year old Knives Out actress feisty enough to face off in the double entendre seamstress noir Sew Torn as the town sheriff - going toe to toe with local tough guy miscreants.

** "It ain't 1995, dude - and this is going to be a huge summer..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on truck terrorism, tariffs, TV game shows, and the CIA - 'and what we see at this point, is the screamings of a madman...'

** "The manifesto speaks for itself..."

Breaking News - or rather corporate media broken news. And how the investigative journalist incidentally, or not so incidentally, got a visit from the FBI the very same day he posted the manifesto - clearly an attempt to maintain narrative control. Stay tuned, and all will be revealed...

** "Darkest LA - Film Noir, Greed and Corporate Graft..."

Shakespeare Noir And Darkest LA. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on a lecture tour, presented by the Institute For The Radical Imagination. With connections to 'Welles, Falstaff and Macbeth, Kurosawa, 'The Bad Sleep Well' - and Albert Maltz's The Journey Of Simon McKeever...' 

SUNLIGHT REVIEW: DARK DESCENT INTO PUPPET NOIR

A devilishly morbid when not peppered with melancholy mix of Punch And Judy with The King Of Comedy, the puppet noir Sunlight defiantly dazzles nevertheless with its kinky collage split personalities and then some, road movie. Directed and co-written by famed puppeteer as well Nina Conti, no stranger to an all in the family brooding mix apparently shared with her father Tom Conti, most recently exhibited as Albert Einstein in Oppenheimer - Conti' s a tale of two Janes assembles additional multiple hats on screen as no less than two characters, herself as Jane and literally suited up disguise, Monkey.

As much a staged performance persona as liberating concealed identity expressed as a British male in contrast to the American Jane (though also a further disguise for the UK actress), this is in no way a gender identity swap - but rather enabling an emotional release of PTSD family survival trauma. A similar though less forthcoming psychological childhood trauma afflicts co-writer Shenoah Allen's Roy, a suicidally inclined local radio host she teams up with after hijacking his van, with the despondent Roy in tow.

Meanwhile what follows down that scorching New Mexico highway, is an alternately chaotic mix of personal motivations - Monkey/Jane to fulfill her dream in costume, of acquiring a pontoon boat to ferry around tourists in Colorado on an inflatable banana - while Roy's more modest but disturbing intent involves driving off first to dig up his deceased father's grave along the way, and retrieve an inherited deluxe heirloom watch, from dad's decomposing hand.

Not exactly Father's Day fare in theaters with that holiday approaching, but suffice it to say that Jane embraces her monkey persona, an intermittent infused poignant wit laced with rage as protective shield from the brutality against women in this world - and in her case an inferred sexually abusive stepfather pursuing them by bike. In effect, a subversive Father's Day offering about two damaged offspring finding borderline bizarre unlikely salvation together in each other's broken lives.

And on a side note, the outstanding regional filmmaking gem Sunlight is executive produced by Christopher Guest, with special thanks to Emma Thompson and Griffin Dunne. Along with New Mexico "grateful acknowledgement to the Kawaika people of the Pueblo of Lagunak, who so gracefully allowed us to film on their ancestral territory. The Kawaika people have been telling stories for thousands of years. Thank you for letting us tell ours..."

Prairie Miller