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

In the fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and musician Ben Childs to discuss the unforgiving and sad coming-of-age lessons of ambiguous moral discovery in the wild west in Robert Benton's revisionist western Bad Company (1972).

In the fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and streamer Daniel Lopez to discuss Roberto Rossellini's bold neo-realist portrait of the rubble and ruin of World War II's ground zero and the shamed populace at its center in the humanistic and challenging Germany, Year Zero (1948).

In the third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by journalist Kerry Harwin and writer August Gummere to discuss the lyrical and poetic neo-realist inspired reflection of India's transition into modernity as it is seen and experienced through the joys and dangers of childhood in Satyajit Ray's first feature film Pather Panchali (1955).

In the second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the gutwrenching depiction of children lost in Italy's post-war system of cruelty, punishment, and bureaucracy in Vittorio De Sica's stunning coming-of-age masterpiece, Shoeshine (1946).

In the season premiere of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and filmmaker Michael Willer to discuss the seminal coming-of-age tale from François Truffaut, the rebelliously technical and the emotionally resonant depiction of youthful truancy, discovery, and identity in the classic The 400 Blows (1959).

In the season finale of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by writer/traveler Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss the stunning visuals and genre defying subversion of fairy tale, fable, and storytelling as magical realism is used to comment on political allegory, metaphorical journey, and the dynamic between destiny and choice in Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006).

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, editor Katy Baldwin, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the glam rock infused fantasia of coming-of-age responsibility, consequence, and sexuality that defines the puzzling landscape of emerging adulthood in Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986).

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and Steve Bolia to discuss the beautifully melancholic and tragic reflection on the traditional hero's journey caught between the conflict of material desire and transcendent purpose in Ang Lee's Wuxia inspired martial arts sensation Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, podcaster Ben Thelen, and fellow cinephile Daniel Lopez, to discuss the satirical and surrealist dive into existential malaise and the illusion of self-actualization in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's original and off-kilter comedy Being John Malkovich (1999).

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, novelist Samuel Cullado, and journalist Kerry Harwin, to discuss the grand operatic display of technicolor, triangle romance, and the sacrifice for art in the loose adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale of obsession from Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes (1948).