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

In the fifteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss Elia Kazan's prescient take on the evolving con-artist populism of mass media, cult of personality, and transcribed politics that is A Face in the Crowd (1957).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by writer/journalist Kerry Harwin and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the origins of the suave, post-modernist gangster in Jean-Pierre Melville's existential and amoralistic reflection in Bob le Flambeur (1956).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen for a one-on-one discussion on Mario Monicelli's hysterical heist parody about a group of relatable losers and their ill-fated attempt to change their lot in life in Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).

In the twelfth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, fellow critic Tyler Harlow, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss Stanley Kubrick's irony laden noir of fate and fortune in the cynical and fatalistic heist film The Killing (1956).

In the eleventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and actor/musician Nick Earl to discuss the penultimate heist film about loyalty, codes of honor, and betrayal in Jules Dassin's redemptive return from blacklisting that is Rififi (1955).

In the tenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Galen Howard to discuss Jacques Becker's mature distillation of B-movie gangsters that uncovers their principles, behaviors, and aging concerns in the understated and observational Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954).

In the ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the bleak nihilism of post-War London and the corrupt promotion games of wrestling in the fatalistic character study of ambition that is Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950).

In the eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) to discuss the nasty brutality of thugs and cops in the pulpy vengeance noir from Phil Karlson, Kansas City Confidential (1952).

In the seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and writer August Gummere to discuss Charles Crichton's irreverent comedy about working men conniving to get their long overdue and deserved payday for time spent in the delightful and personable The Lavender Hill Mob (1951).

In the sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss Robert Siodmak's gripping noir tragedy about a sucker for love and the warning fable of being seduced by the uncontrollable passion of the criminal underworld in Criss Cross (1949).