I Know Movies and You Don't w/ Kyle Bruehl

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile August Gummere and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the exuberant cult oddity that is Makoto Tezuka's concept album turned into cinematic music videos in the madcap comedy and music industry critique, The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985).

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Mario Ruiz and musician Ben Childs to discuss the eccentric anthropological investigation into the contradictions and tabloids of a small Texas city that becomes a microcosm of the multi-faceted and strange existence of America itself in David Byrne's off-kilter musical True Stories (1986)

In the thirty-third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the openly progressive deconstruction of gender, identity, and sexuality of Blake Edwards' warm and tender ode to the cabaret burlesque outsiders of 1930s Paris in the grand gender bending musical Victor/Victoria (1982).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss a true cult gem that tackles the late 70s/early 80s youth disillusionment, artist commodification, and the corruption of identity that crafted the punk and post-punk ethos in Lou Adler's rock n roll feminist musical Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982). 

In the thirty-first episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter David Gutierrez, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, to discuss the Robert Altman's incisive microcosm of the cult of America as presented in an experimental, improvisational, and painterly depiction of the country music capital of the world that is Nashville (1975).

In the thirtieth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss Martin Scorsese's highly ambitious  deconstruction of the musical in how it crafts an artificial expectation from genre and then clashes with the New Hollywood sensibilities of realism in the uneven yet sensational New York, New York (1977).

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the true oddity and gimmick that is Alan Parker's theatrical debut, a pastiche ode to both the 1930s gangster films and the 1930s musicals that stars children at the center of its implications and violence without any sense of commentary or irony: Bugsy Malone (1976).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep it Musical!) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the onslaught of clashing genre and explosive technical self-assuredness that defined the Star Wars of Bollywood in the grand musical action melodrama of Ramesh Sippy's cultural watershed masterpiece Sholay (1975).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, filmmaker Michael Willer, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss the powerful musical about one man's struggle with the collision of religious tradition against the inevitable fluctuations of change as it parallels the displacement of community, identity, and history in Norman Jewison's adaptation of the great Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof (1971).

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and musician Ben Childs to discuss the cumulatively informed distillation of genre that defines the indulgent onslaught of musical fantasia that is Ken Russell's provocative adaptation of Sandy Wilson's irreverent stage musical The Boy Friend (1971).