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In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, musician Ben Childs, screenwriter August Gummere, and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry, to discuss Terry Gilliam's wondrous epic about the extravagant exploits, stories, and lies of the fabled eponymous nobleman in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).
In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the high-octane, music video style and convoluted weaving of time with original world-building mythology that defines Russell Mulcahy's cult sensation, Highlander (1986)
In the thirty-third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, novelist Samuel Cullado, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the lessons of grief, the discovery of identity, and the importance of the imagination in the Wolfgang Petersen adaptation of Michael Ende's novel The NeverEnding Story (1984)
In the thirty-second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and stunt coordinator/horror aficionado Danny Hernandez to discuss the "chinese box structure" and coming-of-age sexuality that encompasses the feminist subversion of traditional fable in Neil Jordan's adaptation of Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves (1984).
In the thirty-first episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Derek Paranay and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the mixed bag of impressive special effects and a typical hero's journey narrative that makes up Matthew Robbins' look at dark ages magic, religion, and superstition in Dragonslayer (1981).
In the thirtieth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss the insane grandeur and mind boggling ambition of John Boorman's sensory and grimy immersion into pure Arthurian legend that defines his epic Excalibur (1981).
In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the comical and magical realism of a boy in perpetual arrested development amid the cruelty, barbarism, and dehumanization of Naziism in Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of Günter Grass' novel The Tin Drum (1979).
In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the haunting Lovecraftian horror of the dreamscape between the phenomenal colonial reality and the noumenal Aboriginal spiritualism in Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977).
In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by stunt coordinator Danny Hernandez and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the dedication to nonsense and absurdism as it relates to the regressive Dark Ages in the very loose yet inspired adaptation of Lewis Carroll in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (1977).
In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the surreal depiction of capitalist hierarchy and the fantasy of hard work equating success in the pseudo-musical satire of Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973).
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A film history and theory podcast that delves deep into a variety of favorites and elusive gems one specific genre at a time. Join the journey and together we can learn about film, auteurs, genre,…