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

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, including podcaster Ben Thelen, actor Dan Bauer, and actor/musician Nick Earl, to discuss the eerie immersion into a life commodified and used for the sole purpose of entertainment in Peter Weir's increasingly relevant The Truman Show.

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and fellow podcaster Gio Maldonado to discuss the philosophical treatise on identity and augmented reality that defines the highly influential Japanese anime from Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell.

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and writer Kerry Harwin to discuss the incredibly presient societal depiction of racial rage, technological voyeurism, and the oppression of nostalgia that defines Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days.

In the thirty-third episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the whimsical romance and endearing ensemble portrait of lost souls in a revisionist apocalypse of usury, cannibalism, and rebellion that defines Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's debut feature Delicatessen.

In the thirty-second episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by actor Galen Howard and streamer Daniel Lopez to discuss the unfinished sci-fi epic magnum opus from visionary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski that ponders the cycles of tribalism, superstition, and narrative that explains our inevitable societal decisions and decline in On the Silver Globe.

In the thirty-first episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and film jack-of-all-trades Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the typical boy meets girl, boy uncovers the nuclear apocalypse story in the dizzying and dreamy cult sensation that is Steve De Jarnatt's Miracle Mile.

In the thirtieth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss the frightening dystopia of memory, psychology, history, and culture that makes up the nightmarish vision of Lars Von Trier's debut feature The Element of Crime.

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Walter Hill's uproarious genre blended gangland western musical of 50s aesthetic and 80s attitude in the kitsch focused dystopia of perpetual youth in Streets of Fire.

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by novelists Samuel Cullado and Alex Buda to discuss the last man on Earth scenario adapted from Craig Harrison's novel that reflects on the metaphysical cycles of rebirth and the guilt of an individual and a nation in Geoffrey Murphey's The Quiet Earth.

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and writer August Gummere to discuss the Japanese cultural anxiety of encroaching technological control and influence in the cross cultural animated hit in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by actor Dan Bauer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss the failure and hubris of fashioning one's own utopian ideal based off faulty premises in Peter Weir's fascinating character study of the populism at the center of American rage and exceptionalism in The Mosquito Coast.

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the emotionally crushing formal quietness of facing the slow impending death of nuclear annihilation with the hopefulness of the human spirit in Lynne Littman's Testament.

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the prescient social satire of media/violence and the discomforting augmented human realities we continue to face in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop.

In the twenty-third episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by actor Galen Howard and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the Polish battle of the sexes satire about gender power dynamics and the ludicrous power divisions of the Soviet Union,  Juliusz Machulski's Sexmission (Seksmisja).

In the twenty-second episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Steve Bolia and fellow film critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the evolution of our technocratic and overstimulated selves through the new flesh of media philosophy in David Cronenberg's sexual and insightful Videodrome.

In the twenty-first episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) to discuss Michael Radford's adaptation of George Orwell's foundational novel about love and individuality expunged in statist conformity and thought control in 1984.

In the twentieth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by streamer Daniel Lopez and novelist Alex Buda to discuss Luc Besson's visually stunning and narratively simple debut feature, the Medieval silent apocalypse of fantasy, chivalry, and absurdity in the experimental The Last Battle (Le Dernier Combat).

In the nineteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the controversial and offbeat twist on man's best friend in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, L.Q. Jones adaptation of Harlan Ellison's grim and nasty novella A Boy and His Dog.

In the eighteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and filmmaker Connar Quigley to discuss the heroic journey of survivalist man into a ronin of the apocalypse in George Miller's continuation in the adventures of his mono-syllabic vengeance filled protagonist in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

In the seventeenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and aspiring filmmaker Tristan Fortier to discuss the bleak origin tale of a man's hope lost to roving criminality and lawlessness from impending apocalypse in George Miller's frenetic vengeance film Mad Max

In the sixteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss Peter Watkins' visceral docu-realist encapsulation of emerging 70s revolutionary ire and frustration in the eerily prescient Punishment Park

In the fifteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by creature actor/filmmaker Alan Maxson and writer Reagan Osborne to discuss the discomforting  blend of religion and statism in the debut feature film of world building visionary George Lucas THX 1138.

In the fourteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss Rainer Werner Fassbinder's only foray into the realm of science-fiction, the layered simulation realities that make up the complex and existentially challenging World on a Wire.

In the thirteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) to discuss the directorial debut of visionary special effects guru Douglas Trumball and his environmentally slanted dystopia of false choice extremes in the underrated Silent Running.

In the twelfth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, including writer August Gummere, streamer Daniel Lopez, and screenwriter Steve Bolia, to discuss the controversial Stanley Kubrick helmed contemplation on free will, violence, and the societal foundation in both in the adaptation of Anthony Burgess's dystopia  novel A Clockwork Orange.