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

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss the parallels of personal history and actual history in John Sayles' investigative neo-western noir, Lone Star.

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss Martin Ritt's scathing portrait of a man representative of the entitled, disconnected, and lost inheritance of the West, the uncompromising character study of Hud.

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by writer Alex Buda and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss the science-fiction blend of western fantasy and modern hedonism that defines the Michael Crichton reflection on theme park extremism in Westworld.

In the thirty-third episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the Coen Brothers' pristine and quiet adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's poetically cynical neo-western rumination on the continuous spiral of American violence and the spectrum of mora...

In the thirty-second episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss John Sturges' immaculately crafted, ensemble driven and effectively insightful message picture about insulated bigotry, old west skepticism, and the dangers of neutral silence in Bad Day at Black Rock.

In the thirty-first episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Steve Bolia and actor Ben McGinley to discuss John Huston's reflective neo-western about isolation, shifting gender roles, and the damage wrought by a philosophy of exceptionalism in The Misfits.

In the thirtieth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Jordan Berry and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss S. Craig Zahler's illustrious and shocking cinematic debut, the blend of classic Western veneer and gruesome cannibalism horror in the fatalistic and critical Bone Tomahawk.

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the feminist perspective on traveling the frontier with men too prideful to realize they're wrong in Kelly Reichardt's lyrical, quiet, and ponderous Meek's Cutoff.

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss a folksy oddity in the filmography of John Ford, the endearing and musical ode to the finding of settlement in the West Wagon Master.

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss the East meets West showdown of subterfuge and disorder in Akira Kurosawa's feudal Japan homage to the Western in Yojimbo

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by actor/podcaster Galen Howard (of the Unsung Cinema podcast) and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss Sergio Corbucci's subversive and influential bleak Western masterpiece The Great Silence.

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss Alejandro Jodorowskys blend of Jewish mysticism, surrealist pop art, and Western iconography in the delirious and challenging acid western El Topo

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and multi instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss Paul Thomas Andersons character study on Manifest Destiny ambition and the isolation of self interest and wealth in There Will Be Blood.

In the twenty-third episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) to discuss the last searing and character driven collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart, the King Lear of the Western plains The Man from Laramie.

In the twenty-second episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Sarah Gray and stunt actor Danny Hernandez (of the BJ Factory) to discuss the truly epic in scale and ambitious in subject matter George Stevens credible yet uneven love letter to the state of Texas its people and its uncomfortable complicated history in Giant

In the twenty-first episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by writer Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss western specialist Delmer Dave's inventive character masterpiece, the unflinching cat-and-mouse chamber Western 3:10 to Yuma.

In the twentieth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the feverish nightmare of interpreting colonial and expansionist philosophy and fears as a literal interpretation of blinded self rightousness and ultimately madness in Robert Aldrich's inventive revisionist western, Ul...

In the nineteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of Ellisinema podcast) to discuss the philosophical extension of the American Wests Manifest Destiny to the expansionism of the Australian penal colony in John Hillcoat's beautiful, poetic, and brutal outback western, The Proposition.

In the eighteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss the autumnal, wintery anti-western that utilized the genre's tropes of the self-made man and the American idea of self-determination as a cosmic joke in Robert Altmans McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

In the seventeenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor Ben McGinley to discuss Monte Hellman's purely existential western about the apocalyptic desolation of the West and our spiraling for futile survival to the whims of nature and man in The Shooting.

In the sixteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by streamer Daniel Lopez and composer Austin Howard to discuss the strange quirkiness of the flamboyant, cartoonish, and off-the-rails eulogy to the Wild West in Tonino Valerii's My Name is Nobody.

In the fifteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisors Katy Baldwin and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the purgatorial wandering and spiritual liminality of man experiencing heaven, hell, and earth in Jim Jarmusch's poetic and existential acid western, Dead Man.

In the fourteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by musician Boston Stergis and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Marlon Brando's bloated vanity project of mixed ego and mixed genius in the early revisionist, existential, and borderline Freudian One- Eyed Jacks.

In the thirteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and screenwriter Tristan Fortier to discuss the racial tensions, societal ramifications, and moral assumptions of characters in the west in Martin Ritt's excellent adaptation on Elmore Leonard's Stagecoach riff, Hombre.

In the twelfth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa Music) to discuss Winchester 73', the first collaboration between the famed partnership of Anthony Mann and James Stewart that paved the way for noirish complexity in the Western genre.