** "I can't believe I'm still doing this - it's like I can't believe people still care what I have to say or talk about..."

Hollywood Babble-On: Kevin Smith Talks Taking The Movie Industry To The Next Level. With the issues of worker exploitation and oppression fueling the current Hollywood writers and actors strikes, the director, screenwriter and actor is flipping the script. Buying and actually living in his local childhood Jersey movie theater, Smith has rebranded the premises as 'Smodcast Cinemas.' And he explains how and why.

Along with Smith's marriage of film intertwined with online podcasting on the inventive independent film premises, and what that connection to 'Hollywood Babble-On' is all about. As the reinvigorated director of the enduring worker classic 'Clerks' has moved on from a suicidal mental crisis, emerging into creative reinvention from that 'weird, dark place.'

** "White unfurls an ambitious tapestry of 500 years of history, politics, economics and culture. Moreover, interweaving itself through their tall and terrible tales of wealth, poverty, love and war - a myth which millions still believe in today, a quaint oxymoron which tens of thousands are still prepared to die for..."

British Cinema And A Divided Nation: Brett Gregory delves into John White's exploration, 'far beyond the edges of the screen' - probing the impact of 'late stage capitalism on our labor, our time, our bodies, our dreams.' With connections to Disraeli's novel Sybil, the welfare state, what's in Thatcher's handbag, and the National Mine Workers Strike - where 'the fuse of fast burned capitalism has been lit, and an unceasing bonfire of workers rights and protections began to rage.'

** 'Stay tuned, and all will be revealed...'

A Life In The Key Of The Community: And what it has to do with Thelonius Monk, the fusion of art and activism, experimental music, and 'a remarkable person - not a Marvel movie comic book hero.'

Plus...Picket line poetry...Passionate words inaugurating the historic strike against the greed of Wall Street financed Hollywood East and West, talking not just about actors, but all of us..