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

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir (halfway mark!), Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Guiterrez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the effortlessly cool blend of 1940s gangster noirs with 1960s French pop fashion (a timeless mixture) that defined the hyper-stylized masterpiece of cultural and individual isolation in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by The Plot Hole co-host Devin Parker and podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) to discuss the blend of slasher horror and fatalistic noir that began and defined the trajectory of The Coen Brothers' insightful and darkly comic portraits of marginal America in their debut Blood Simple.

In the twenty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by raconteur Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional Podcast) and composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa music) to discuss Billy Wilder's three pronged attack on sensationalist media, toxic ambition, and a complacent populace that is one of the purest and most scathing indictments on American culture in his most cynical work, Ace in the Hole.

In the twenty-second episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the spiritual and evocative portrait of a city in political division and a man confronting his guilt, regret, and identity in Carol Reed's first masterpiece, Odd Man Out.

In the twenty-first episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss the nightmarish folktale of religious zealotry and false prophets at the center of Charles Laughton's only directorial feature The Night of the Hunter.

In the twentieth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Galen Howard to discuss the loving European homage to the cynical  and amoral underpinnings of the film noir in Wim Wenders' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game.

In the nineteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir,  Kyle is joined by actors Dan Bauer and Ben McGinley to discuss the world of entertainment and police corruption at the heart of  the city expansion of Los Angeles in Curtis Hanson's adaptation of James Ellroy's novel L.A. Confidential.

In the eighteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the stylistic and narrative embodiment of the noir in the futuristic art-deco designs, psychological chiaroscuro lighting, and tragic flashback narration of  Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

In the seventeenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and editor Kristi Shimek (see Next on Fox/Hulu) to discuss the quintessential heist noir that ventured sympathetic portraits of criminals whose code of honor meant something in a corrupt, disillusioned America, John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle.

In the sixteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the heartbreaking tragedy between two lovers destined for isolation due to their far too damaged selves and a searing indictment on Hollywood celebrity and eccentricity in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place.