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

In the eleventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and actor/musician Nick Earl to discuss the penultimate heist film about loyalty, codes of honor, and betrayal in Jules Dassin's redemptive return from blacklisting that is Rififi (1955).

In the tenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Galen Howard to discuss Jacques Becker's mature distillation of B-movie gangsters that uncovers their principles, behaviors, and aging concerns in the understated and observational Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954).

In the ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the bleak nihilism of post-War London and the corrupt promotion games of wrestling in the fatalistic character study of ambition that is Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950).

In the eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) to discuss the nasty brutality of thugs and cops in the pulpy vengeance noir from Phil Karlson, Kansas City Confidential (1952).

In the seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and writer August Gummere to discuss Charles Crichton's irreverent comedy about working men conniving to get their long overdue and deserved payday for time spent in the delightful and personable The Lavender Hill Mob (1951).

In the sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss Robert Siodmak's gripping noir tragedy about a sucker for love and the warning fable of being seduced by the uncontrollable passion of the criminal underworld in Criss Cross (1949).

In the fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the seminal romantic fatalistic noir about the permanence of class and situation for societal outcasts in the thrilling gangster drama from Raoul Walsh, High Sierra (1941).

In the fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) to discuss an oft-forgotten French cinema gem from the comedic mind of Sacha Guitry, the unreliable narrator tale of a perpetual con-artist in The Story of a Cheat (1936).

In the third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the incredibly delightful blend of sexual innuendo and screwball rhythms amongst the nouveau poor in Ernst Lubitsch's fleecing of the rich in Trouble in Paradise.

In the second episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner Podcast) and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to talk about Jean Renoir's immensely cynical depiction of the post-war France grifting lifestyle that equates survival and usury in La Chienne (1931).

In the Season Premiere of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner Podcast) to discuss the machiavellian undercurrents of Erich von Stroheim's elaborate and opulent con artist study in the silent film Foolish Wives (1922).

In the season finale of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, and cinematographer Josh Carter, to discuss Alfonso Cuarón's ode to the everlasting light of hope in humanity in the melancholic but heartening nativity story of Children of Men.

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, filmmaker Michael Willer, fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, and actor Ben McGinley, to discuss John Carpenter's urban dystopia western about the farcical expansion of judicial system apathy in Escape from New York.

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, novelist Samuel Cullado, actor Ben McGinley, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss Paul Verhoeven's camp immersion into a meta-contextual fantasia commentary on stagnation and cinema as rebellion in the philosophical Phillip K. Dick adaptation Total Recall.

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow film podcaster Gio Maldonado to discuss the turbulent production and vast philosophical meaning of Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic dystopian masterpiece about the elusiveness of human desire in Stalker

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and professor of comparative literature Suleiman Hodali to discuss Orson Welles' delirious and technical adaptation of Franz Kafka's indictment of bureaucratic and justice system inadequacy in The Trial.

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by writer August Gummere and fellow film critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the nihilistic and deadpan satirical comic adaptation of extremist law and order in Pete Travis' Dredd.

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow film podcaster Gio Maldonado to discuss the odd dystopian world of societal monogamy and the oppression of relationship expectations, social pressures, and superficial connectivity in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster.

In the forty-third episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and writer August Gummere to discuss the long gestating creative magnum opus from Aleksei German, the full disconcerting immersion into the scum and spit ridden dark ages as a reflection on history and suffering in Hard to Be a God.

In the forty-second episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner Podcast) and actor Dan Bauer to discuss Edgar Wright's kinetic action film Hot Fuzz and its undercurrent of deontology vs utilitarianism that defines its "the greater good" philosophy in Hot Fuzz

In the forty-first episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss Richard Linklater's delirious and maddening immersion into the paranoia of Phillip K. Dick and its relation to our heightened security future in A Scanner Darkly.

In the fortieth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by streamer Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) and actor Danny Hernandez to discuss Michael Haneke's quiet and disconcerting immersion into an ecological nightmare of tribal community and existential waiting in Time of the Wolf.

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and writer/traveler Reagan Osborne to discuss the brutal interpretation on the battle of generational anxiety and the competitiveness of cultural testing in Kinji Fukasaku's daring adaptation of Koushun Takami's Battle Royale.

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the blurring of fiction and reality in the augmented realm of video games that defines the media is the message philosoph  of David Cronenberg's ExistenZ.

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss Andrew Niccol's underappreciated sci-fi contemplation on modified genetics vs. self-actualization in the philosophically intriguing Gattaca.