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

In the fifteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the blend of dance, music, and tragedy that combines celebratory romanticism and societal tragedy in the jubilant yet wary depiction of Favela life in Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (1959).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and writer August Gummere to discuss the vibrantly colorful and community driven immersion into the Jewish emigre center of Post-War London that dabbles in the preservation of fantasy in Carol Reed's lesser known A Kid for Two Farthings (1955).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and cinematographer Ryan Alva to discuss the quotidian rhythms and slice of life tragedies within a farming family going through a crisis of faith in Carl Theodor Dreyer's late career masterpiece Ordet (1955).

In the twelfth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss Vittorio De Sica's delightful and heart warming indictment of society gone wrong in the fantastical inversion of neo-realist tragedy in Miracle in Milan (1951).

In the eleventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by writer/performer Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss the beautifully shot yet narratively uneven blend of mythologies and romance in Albert Lewin's melodrama Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951).

In the tenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) to discuss another of William Dieterle's experimental fantasies, the David O. Selznick micromanaged production about the everlasting and romantic impact of the artistic muse on the artistic soul in Portrait of Jennie (1948).

In the ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) and filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss Jean Cocteau's stylishly dreamy and overtly Freudian adaptation of the timeless fable made personal in La Belle et la Bête (1946).

In the eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and writer August Gummere to discuss the use of fantasy as political and societal allegory in Marcel Carne's romantic French fable made under German Occupation, Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942).

In the seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the a technical and enrapturing slice of Americana that takes a home-spun folklore of deceptive deals, immoral paths, and the saving grace of patriotism to a glorious level of immersion in William Dieterle's adaptation of the fable The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941).

In the sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, filmmaker Michael Willer, screenwriter Steve Bolia, and actress Thurlene Williams, to discuss the power of archetype and the vague attachments to the hero's journey in one of the substantial pillars of cinema, Victor Fleming's adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939).