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

In the fifteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by duel hosts of Spro & Lee Take on the Academy to tackle the melancholic nostalgia of memory, trauma, and experience as it pertains to the vibrant yet fading foundational friendships of youth in Rob Reiner's delicate and nuanced adaptation of Stephen King in the seminal coming-of-age film Stand by Me (1986).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to discuss the black tragicomic adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about childhood neglect, parental malfeasance, and societal hypocrisy in Neil Jordan's confrontational and surrealist The Butcher Boy (1997).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss societal inequality and the brutality of survival that defines David Lean's stripped down and lyrically imagined adaptation of the seminal coming-of-age Dickensian novel Oliver Twist (1948). 

In the twelfth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, cinematographer Josh Carter, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the endearing lens of memory and nostalgia as it tells a touching tale of mentorship, home, and identity wrapped in an ode to the power of cinema in  Giuseppe Tornatore's foreign film sensation Cinema Paradiso (1988).

In the eleventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and fellow podcaster Lee (of Spro and Lee Take on the Academy) to discuss the animated beauty and brutality of Marjane Satrapi's own graphic novel adaptation of the auto-biographical coming-of-age complications of gender, politics, and identity in post-revolutionary Iran in Persepolis (2007).

In the tenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the fragmentation of time, culture, and gender that defines the multi-faceted coming-of-age survival tale set against the brutality of the outback and the impact of colonialism in Nicolas Roeg's experimentally crafted Walkabout (1971).

In the ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter Steve Bolia to discuss the horror landscape of high school and how it acts as a permutation and microcosm of societal expectation, judgment, and humiliation in Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's mean-spirited novel on the retaliation of power that is Carrie (1976).

In the eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the intimate bonds of friendship and the imaginary yet fully felt worlds they create in Peter Jackson's true crime deconstruction Heavenly Creatures (1994).

In the seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter/editor Katy Baldwin and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the ethereal psychological space between the colonialist sentiment and the aboriginal dreamscape that seeps into the rhythms of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

In the sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, writer August Gummere, musician Ben Childs, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the unrelenting and bleak immersion into the dehumanizing cycle and horror of war in the anti-war film to end all other anti-war films, Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985).