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

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, actor Dan Bauer, and novelist Alex Buda, to discuss the hysterical and perceptive heist parody about the culture clash of brash Americans and posh Brits in Charles Crichton's A Fish Called Wanda (1988).

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by writer August Gummere and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the undercover cop heist drama about fractured loyalties, criminal brotherhood, and the isolation of profession in Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987).

In the thirty-third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow film critics Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and writer August Gummere to discuss the stripped down formalism and the elegance of the written word in David Mamet's film directorial debut depicting the smokey underworld of con-men and deception that is House of Games (1987).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner substack) and fellow cinephile Ryan Smith to discuss the existential self-made anti-hero of the modern age in Michael Mann's stylish, mechanical, and immaculately detailed character study Thief (1981).

In the thirty-first episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and musician Ben Childs to discuss the existential crime world film about the respectability of skill and characyer identity as an abstraction in Walter Hill's stylish and influential neo-noir The Driver (1978).

In the thirtieth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and actor Ben McGinley, to discuss the penultimate light yet stylish heist film about comraderie, revenge, and the constructive beauty of crafting the aura of cinema in George Roy Hill's The Sting (1973).

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by actor Galen Howard and musician Ben Childs to discuss the cat and mouse advanced chess match of survivalism that defines the thrilling and absolute fun of the influential and underrated Don Siegel film Charley Varrick (1973).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, writer August Gummere, and professor Suleiman Hodali, to discuss Paul Schrader's cynical directorial debut about three desperate autoworkers screwed by wages, taxes, and the system in Blue Collar (1978).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcasters Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and Daniel Lopez (of the Ghosts podcast) to discuss the futility of status, wealth, and nobility that defines the cynical journey of an Irish con-artist rogue in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975).

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by novelists Samuel Cullado and Alex Buda to discuss the disarming charm and perceptive wit of Peter Bogdanovich's Depression-era assessment of devastating poverty, hypocritical religion, and con-artist opportunism in Paper Moon (1973).