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

In the fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Jordan Berry and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the incredibly dated and oddly telling interpretation of an exotic Utopia through the populist and idealistic lens of Frank Capra in the uneven and platitudinal Lost Horizon (1937).

In the fourth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen to discuss the personal ode to the cavernous creative mind of artists, poets, and writers in Jean Cocteau's experimental rumination on the paradoxes of life and death, the innate power of metaphor, and the division between dream and reality in The Blood of a Poet (1932).

In the third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the blasphemous and anarchic surrealism of Luis Buñuel in the vignette driven attack on church, the bourgeousie, and the moralistic insanity of modernity in L'Age d'Or (1930).

In the second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and fellow cinephile Derek Paranay to discuss the meticulous animation process of lead/paper cutouts and stop motion movement that gave illumination to the grand work of expressionist Lotte Reiniger in The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926).

In the season premiere of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by his partner and script supervisor Katy Baldwin for a one-on-one discussion about Douglas Fairbanks and the incredible stunt acrobatics, phenomenal production design, and the thoroughly immersive fantasy set-pieces that define Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924).

In the Season Finale of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, producer Bryson Pintard (Manifest West), writer Reagan Osborne, and actor/musician Nick Earl, to discuss the operatic dichotomy of obsessed cops and isolated criminals playing out a serious, professional, and dangerous game against each other in Michael Mann's heist epic Heat (1995).

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, novelist Samuel Cullado, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the deeply humanist portrait of working class concerns, police indifference, and marginalized communities that is Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner Substack) to discuss Orson Welles' final magnum opus about the deceptive truth of film, the lasting materialist immortality of art, and the deconstruction of himself as a performer and artist in F for Fake (1973).

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and musician Ben Childs to discuss the independent cinema sensation that changed the rules with post-modern pastiche and a fragmented Rashomon-style of perspective in Quentin Tarantino's slick yet brutal examination on the bonds of isolated criminals that is Reservoir Dogs (1992).

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) to discuss the acrobatic art of manipulation and the elusive truth at the heart of storytelling in the endearing yet also now problematic The Usual Suspects (1995).