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In the forty-fifth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and creature actor/director Alan Maxson (of Alan Maxson's Alien Planet) to discuss a sci-fi noir blend about the treatment of humans as a literal rat experiment of identity, memory, and experience in Alex Proyas' Dark City.
In the forty-fourth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by writer Alex Buda and actor Ben McGinley to discuss a strange and off kilter classic noir, the self-possessed dying man as detective in Rudolph Mate's D.O.A.
In the forty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and editor Krtisi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and Next) to discuss a little known police procedural noir that reunited Otto Preminger with his Laura stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, the corrupt world of gangsters and cops with means to an end in Where the Sidewalk Ends.
In the forty-second episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss a quintessential 70s malaise noir of dissatisfaction and obfuscation in Arthur Penn's detective criticism Night Moves.
In the forty-first episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and streamer Daniel Lopez (of the Corrupt Immoral Channel) to discuss one of Samuel Fuller's most incendiary and diabolical works about the downward obsession and corruptible aims of vengeance in Underworld U.S.A.
In the fortieth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by writer Tristan Fortier and musician/actor Boston Stergis to discuss a wonderfully misunderstood remake of a Hemingway novel from Hollywood craftsman Michael Curtiz, the pitfall tale of trying to have a sense of control and a sense of ownership in a world that owns you in The Breaking Point.
In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and Next) and musician Ben Childs to discuss the meticulous and obsessive dive into the media hysteria, investigative bureaucratic nightmare, and cultural flashpoint that defines David Fincher's magnum opus, Zodiac.
In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional podcast) and filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss a lesser known Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger collaboration, their psychologically intimate noir war drama about clarity of purpose and the illusion of control in The Small Back Room.
In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by actor/singer/traveler Reagan Osborne and fellow cinephile Ben McGinley to discuss B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer's rickshaw and threadbare production of a hard-boiled tale of paranoia, insecurity, and fatalistic end in the pulp poetry that is Detour
In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional Podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss Robert Aldrich's abstract parody and distillation of detective novel morality in the strange sci-fi noir blend of 50s red scare and nuclear war paranoia entitled Kiss Me Deadly
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