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

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the suggestive lurid nature of the noir and how it's brought to the discomforting surface in Stephen Frears' adaptation of Jim Thompson's savage and brutal novel The Grifters (1990).

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, actor Dan Bauer, and novelist Alex Buda, to discuss the hysterical and perceptive heist parody about the culture clash of brash Americans and posh Brits in Charles Crichton's A Fish Called Wanda (1988).

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by writer August Gummere and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the undercover cop heist drama about fractured loyalties, criminal brotherhood, and the isolation of profession in Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987).

In the thirty-third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow film critics Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and writer August Gummere to discuss the stripped down formalism and the elegance of the written word in David Mamet's film directorial debut depicting the smokey underworld of con-men and deception that is House of Games (1987).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner substack) and fellow cinephile Ryan Smith to discuss the existential self-made anti-hero of the modern age in Michael Mann's stylish, mechanical, and immaculately detailed character study Thief (1981).

In the thirty-first episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and musician Ben Childs to discuss the existential crime world film about the respectability of skill and characyer identity as an abstraction in Walter Hill's stylish and influential neo-noir The Driver (1978).

In the thirtieth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and actor Ben McGinley, to discuss the penultimate light yet stylish heist film about comraderie, revenge, and the constructive beauty of crafting the aura of cinema in George Roy Hill's The Sting (1973).

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by actor Galen Howard and musician Ben Childs to discuss the cat and mouse advanced chess match of survivalism that defines the thrilling and absolute fun of the influential and underrated Don Siegel film Charley Varrick (1973).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, writer August Gummere, and professor Suleiman Hodali, to discuss Paul Schrader's cynical directorial debut about three desperate autoworkers screwed by wages, taxes, and the system in Blue Collar (1978).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcasters Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and Daniel Lopez (of the Ghosts podcast) to discuss the futility of status, wealth, and nobility that defines the cynical journey of an Irish con-artist rogue in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975).

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by novelists Samuel Cullado and Alex Buda to discuss the disarming charm and perceptive wit of Peter Bogdanovich's Depression-era assessment of devastating poverty, hypocritical religion, and con-artist opportunism in Paper Moon (1973).

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and musician Ben Childs to discuss the riveting tableux of a complex city populace and a bureaucratic transport system held hostage in the gripping heist masterpiece that is Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974).

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the Ghosts Podcast) and musician Ben Childs to discuss the coded innuendo and systemic criminality in the world of principled thieves, blue collar mobsters, and self-preserving stool pigeons that makes up the underworld of Peter Yates' The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973).

In the twenty-third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and musician Ben Childs to the lighthearted string of perpetual capers and eccentric losers chasing down greatness in Peter Yates' jubilant farce The Hot Rock (1972).

In the twenty-second episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and writer August Gummere to discuss the meticulous precision of professionals and the faulty weaknesses of man that undercuts the planning in the thrilling yet subdued Peter Yates heist film Robbery (1967).

In the twenty-first episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, journalist Kerry Harwin, fellow podcaster Michael Willer, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss the melancholic study of isolation, detachment, and code of the existential gangster in Jean-Pierre Melville's final opus Le Cercle Rouge (1970).

In the twentieth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, editor Kristi Shimek, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss Peter Collinson's audacious and insane heist farce mocking British nationalism and criminal immaturity in The Italian Job (1969).

In the nineteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the thrilling World War II French Resistance actioner about the heist of cultural heritage and the lives it takes to save it in John Frankenheimer’s The Train (1964).

In the eighteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the effortlessly stylish and suave technique that represents the battle of the sexes and the minds in Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).

In the seventeenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the cinema formalism of Jean-Luc Godard and how it applies to a cultural critique of nostalgia and B-movie identities in Band of Outsiders (1964).

In the sixteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Robert Rossen's bleak study on the monied corruption of skill and competition in the world of pool in The Hustler (1961).

In the fifteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss Elia Kazan's prescient take on the evolving con-artist populism of mass media, cult of personality, and transcribed politics that is A Face in the Crowd (1957).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by writer/journalist Kerry Harwin and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the origins of the suave, post-modernist gangster in Jean-Pierre Melville's existential and amoralistic reflection in Bob le Flambeur (1956).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen for a one-on-one discussion on Mario Monicelli's hysterical heist parody about a group of relatable losers and their ill-fated attempt to change their lot in life in Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).

In the twelfth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, fellow critic Tyler Harlow, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss Stanley Kubrick's irony laden noir of fate and fortune in the cynical and fatalistic heist film The Killing (1956).