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

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss Martin Ritt's scathing portrait of a man representative of the entitled, disconnected, and lost inheritance of the West, the uncompromising character study of Hud.

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by writer Alex Buda and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss the science-fiction blend of western fantasy and modern hedonism that defines the Michael Crichton reflection on theme park extremism in Westworld.

In the thirty-third episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the Coen Brothers' pristine and quiet adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's poetically cynical neo-western rumination on the continuous spiral of American violence and the spectrum of morality needed to navigate it in No Country for Old Men.

In the thirty-second episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss John Sturges' immaculately crafted, ensemble driven and effectively insightful message picture about insulated bigotry, old west skepticism, and the dangers of neutral silence in Bad Day at Black Rock.

In the thirty-first episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Steve Bolia and actor Ben McGinley to discuss John Huston's reflective neo-western about isolation, shifting gender roles, and the damage wrought by a philosophy of exceptionalism in The Misfits.

In the thirtieth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Jordan Berry and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss S. Craig Zahler's illustrious and shocking cinematic debut, the blend of classic Western veneer and gruesome cannibalism horror in the fatalistic and critical Bone Tomahawk.

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the feminist perspective on traveling the frontier with men too prideful to realize they're wrong in Kelly Reichardt's lyrical, quiet, and ponderous Meek's Cutoff.

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss a folksy oddity in the filmography of John Ford, the endearing and musical ode to the finding of settlement in the West Wagon Master.

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss the East meets West showdown of subterfuge and disorder in Akira Kurosawa's feudal Japan homage to the Western in Yojimbo

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by actor/podcaster Galen Howard (of the Unsung Cinema podcast) and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss Sergio Corbucci's subversive and influential bleak Western masterpiece The Great Silence.