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

In the fifteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and filmmaker Michael Willer (from the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss the cynical masterpiece about societal corruption and the complications of having moral integrity in a fractured world that is Fritz Lang's devilishly cynical The Big Heat.

In the fourteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by musician and actor Boston Stergis, as well as podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast), to discuss revolutionary female filmmaker Ida Lupino's scathing indictment of fragile male ego and passive inaction in the economic and thrilling noir The Hitch-Hiker.

In the thirteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by singer, actor, traveler Reagan Osborne to discuss the melancholic fatalism at the tender heart of Nicholas Ray's lyrical film noir about the existential circumstance of love between societal outcasts, They Live by Night.

In the twelfth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by a panel of guests: script supervisor Katy Baldwin, cinematographer Josh Carter, and actor Ben McGinley. Together we discuss various aspects and stylistic flourishes of Ridley Scott's sci-fi embodiment of the isolation, moral uncertainty, and fatalistic direction that defined the traditional noir and expanded it to new heights in Blade Runner.

In the eleventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and philosopher/theologian Steven Lewis to discuss the transplanted noir facade onto the heightened self-important drama within the cliques, classes, and divisions of high school in Rian Johnson's debut Brick.

In the tenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and actor Ben McGinley to discuss a lost elegy of gangland omerta and the downfall of loyalty in Phil Joanou's neo-noir State of Grace.

In the ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the elusive and unconventional noir about cynical con artistry and the ironic fall from grace in the world of carnies from melodramatist Edmund Goulding and starring a transformed Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley.

In the eighth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by film critic Tyler Harlow (of the After Credits Blog) and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss the seminal pre-cursor to French New Wave and the extraordinary blend of noir style, mood, and existential pondering in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows.

In the seventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and podcaster Eric Skippings (of the West Coast Popcast) to discuss the revolutionary artistry and blend of live-action and animation combined with some slick 40s noir veneer in Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

In the sixth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by actors Galen Howard and Dan Bauer to discuss the absurdist and surreal modernized parody of The Big Sleep, and all of the subtle winks and nods to the classic noir genre in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski.