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

In the eleventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by writer/performer Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss the beautifully shot yet narratively uneven blend of mythologies and romance in Albert Lewin's melodrama Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951).

In the tenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) to discuss another of William Dieterle's experimental fantasies, the David O. Selznick micromanaged production about the everlasting and romantic impact of the artistic muse on the artistic soul in Portrait of Jennie (1948).

In the ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) and filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss Jean Cocteau's stylishly dreamy and overtly Freudian adaptation of the timeless fable made personal in La Belle et la Bête (1946).

In the eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and writer August Gummere to discuss the use of fantasy as political and societal allegory in Marcel Carne's romantic French fable made under German Occupation, Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942).

In the seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the a technical and enrapturing slice of Americana that takes a home-spun folklore of deceptive deals, immoral paths, and the saving grace of patriotism to a glorious level of immersion in William Dieterle's adaptation of the fable The Devil...

In the sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, filmmaker Michael Willer, screenwriter Steve Bolia, and actress Thurlene Williams, to discuss the power of archetype and the vague attachments to the hero's journey in one of the substantial pillars of cinema, Victor Fleming's adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939).

In the fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Jordan Berry and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the incredibly dated and oddly telling interpretation of an exotic Utopia through the populist and idealistic lens of Frank Capra in the uneven and platitudinal Lost Horizon (1937).

In the fourth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen to discuss the personal ode to the cavernous creative mind of artists, poets, and writers in Jean Cocteau's experimental rumination on the paradoxes of life and death, the innate power of metaphor, and the division between dream and reality in The Blood of a...

In the third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the blasphemous and anarchic surrealism of Luis Buñuel in the vignette driven attack on church, the bourgeousie, and the moralistic insanity of modernity in L'Age d'Or (1930).

In the second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and fellow cinephile Derek Paranay to discuss the meticulous animation process of lead/paper cutouts and stop motion movement that gave illumination to the grand work of expressionist Lotte Reiniger in The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926).

In the season premiere of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by his partner and script supervisor Katy Baldwin for a one-on-one discussion about Douglas Fairbanks and the incredible stunt acrobatics, phenomenal production design, and the thoroughly immersive fantasy set-pieces that define Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924).

In the Season Finale of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, producer Bryson Pintard (Manifest West), writer Reagan Osborne, and actor/musician Nick Earl, to discuss the operatic dichotomy of obsessed cops and isolated criminals playing out a serious, professional, and dangerous game against each other in Michael Mann's heist epic Heat (1995).

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, novelist Samuel Cullado, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the deeply humanist portrait of working class concerns, police indifference, and marginalized communities that is Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner Substack) to discuss Orson Welles' final magnum opus about the deceptive truth of film, the lasting materialist immortality of art, and the deconstruction of himself as a performer and artist in F for Fake (1973).

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and musician Ben Childs to discuss the independent cinema sensation that changed the rules with post-modern pastiche and a fragmented Rashomon-style of perspective in Quentin Tarantino's slick yet brutal examination on the bonds of isolated criminals that is Reservoir Dogs...

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) to discuss the acrobatic art of manipulation and the elusive truth at the heart of storytelling in the endearing yet also now problematic The Usual Suspects (1995).

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, actor Dan Bauer, and fellow critic Tyler Harlow, to discuss Bart Layton's docu-realist retelling of a tale stranger than fiction and how fragmented perception makes for an elusive idea of truth in American Animals (2018).

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter August Gummere, podcaster Michael Willer, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss the refrigerator logic of the structuralist and rationalist Christopher Nolan and his embodiment of the heist genre in the sci-fi blended love letter to filmmaking in Inception (2010).

In the forty-third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and actor Galen Howard to discuss the surrealist purgatory of a gangster caught between his tranquil escapist present and the disruption of his demonic past embodied in an unstoppable force in Jonathan Glazer's directorial debut Sexy Beast (2000).

In the forty-second episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and writer/performer Reagan Osborne to discuss the suave, sexy, and stylistic adaptation of Elmore Leonard's hang out heist romance in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998).

In the forty-first episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Jeffrey Keller and writer/performer Reagan Osborne to discuss the ode to blaxploitation and the legend of Pam Grier that makes for the mature reflection on aging, dwindling opportunity, and the melancholy of loneliness in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997).

In the fortieth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by writer/performer Reagan Osborne and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the spy genre as a distillation of government sanctioned con-artistry, the cultural paranoia around the elusiveness of truth, and how the performative facade of a mission is the equivalent to cinema in Brian De Palma's Mission:Impossible (1996)...

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and fellow film critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the hyper-stylized immersion into the London underworld and the naive poor saps who get taken for a parable ride in Guy Ritchie's debut Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking B...

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss Peter Jackson's mid-budget blockbuster ode to the strange and the weird with an unlikable anti-hero, a paranormal con-job, and a murderous mystery at the center of The Frighteners (1996).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the earnest losers of love and fortune that are the center of Wes Anderson's quirky and foundational directorial debut Bottle Rocket (1996).