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In the forty-fifth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Nathan Lee to discuss the storybook fairy tale about crippling adult malaise and the awakening to appreciation in John Patrick Shanley's whimsical and surrealist examination on the renewal of life in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990).
In the forty-fourth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Connar Quigley to discuss the silly yet sly commentary on Suburban complacency, routine, and boredom showcasing cracks and disillusionment in the foundation of the American Dream in Joe Dante's The 'Burbs (1989).
In the forty-third episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with musician and actor Boston Stergis to discuss the black comedic inversion of Shakespeare's Scottish Play as it is utilized as a commentary on futile ambition in the limited choice of the American 70s in Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA (2001).
In the forty-second episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker and musician Jake Dilley to discuss his improvisational road trip film Rocksteppy (2017) and how it was influenced by Christopher Guest's ode to simple creativity and small town unity in the mocking yet earnest depiction of the egos and characters in community theatre that is Waiting for Guffman (1996).
In the forty-first episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor Ben McGinley to discuss the propaganda advertisement that transcends into a story of self-actualization in Tony Scott's adrenaline infused depiction of the Navy in all of its homoerotic camaraderie and competition known as Top Gun (1986).
In the fortieth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with podcaster and screenwriter Spro to discuss the stylistic and raw vengeance parable that surveys the power of human connection and the meaning of redemption in Tony Scott's Man on Fire (2004).
In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor, teacher, and entertainer Adam Tunney to discuss a foundational 1930's proto-noir of friendship and doomed circumstances in the gangster and delinquency rumination from Michael Curtiz in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).
In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the sublime, the boredom, and everything in between of the bourgeois hedonism of a particular Italian class set in Paulo Sorrentino's odyssey of mid-life crisis actualization that is The Great Beauty (2013).
In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the operatic tragedy about a family fractured by the forceful nature of displacement and modernization within the economic disruption of Italy in Luchino Visconti's excellent melodrama Rocco and His Brothers (1960).
In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined by screenwriter and post-supervisor Kelcie Gruenberg to discuss the existentialist purgatory that is the wasteland of suicide in Goran Dukić's adaptation of Etgar Keret's thought experiment of the afterlife as a metaphor for relationship grief in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006).
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