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

In the eleventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and writer Tristan Fortier to discuss the morally complex characters trapped in a home invasion of frontier circumstance in Andre De Toth's bleak noir western The Day of the Outlaw.

In the tenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss a proto-spaghetti western from the subversive Robert Aldrich, the down South mercenary for hire oater Vera Cruz

In the ninth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the maddening decent into destructive greed and the privileged mindset of the self-determined American West that lingers in the core spirit of men in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

In the eighth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcast Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and musician Boston Stergis (of Sailor Ripley) to discuss the morally complex portrait of gunfighting fame that cast a shadow over the folklore of the American West and their outlaw heroes  in Henry King's The Gunfighter

In the seventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephiles Sarah Gray and Ryan Smith to discuss Samuel Fuller's subversive and feminist western Forty Guns, and all of its innuendo, character driven splendor, and shocking memorable moments.

In the sixth episode of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss Howard Hawk's foundational and seminal western about family, legacy, empire, and the competing philosophies emerging in the west that is Red River

In the fifth episode of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the first example of the anti-western, William A. Wellman's searing and and unsubtle critique of emerging fascism and mob mentality placing it in the confines of emotional and corruptible frontier justice in The Ox-Bow Incident.

In the fourth episode of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by composer Austin Howard and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss one of John Ford's complicated portrait of the face and humanity of the soldiers of the cavalry, their community, and their lost presence in the sacrifice of the American myth in Fort Apache

In the third episode of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and actor/writer Reagan Osborne to discuss John Ford's sound-era revitalization and subversion of B-movie western tropes that launched the genre into prestige cinematic poetry in the all-time western classic Stagecoach

In the second episode of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist/podcast Samuel Cullado (of the Documental Podcast) to discuss the devilishly opaque and psychological kaleidoscope that is Nicholas Ray's strange, colorful, and offbeat embodiment of the western genre, Johnny Guitar.

In the opening of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, including editor Kristi Shimek, cinematographer Josh Carter, and actor Ben McGinley, to discuss the Sergio Leone western masterpiece about the incoming of progress, civilization, and social order against the backdrop of the dying breed of men, the chaos of violence, and the ruthless landscape that is the representat...

In the season finale of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the neo-noir masterwork of the 70s malaise and cynical uncertainty in Roman Polanski's investigative drama about societal corruption and the inability of personal clarity or control in Chinatown

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss one of the first proto-noirs that preceded the genre and the style, Fritz Lang's deeply humanist adaptation and creation of the lovers-on-the-run genre You Only Live Once.

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Ryan Smith and musician Ben Childs to discuss Ivan Passer's rumination on the distrustful malaise of societal corruption in the paranoia and conspiracy infused neo-noir,  Cutter's Way.

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the first installment of New Wave South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's vengeance trilogy, the fatalistic and tragic burning down house of cards noir Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and streamer Daniel Lopez (of the Corrupt Immoral Channel) to discuss Robert Rodriguez's distillation of noir style, hard-boiled dialogue, and societal corruption in his dedicated recreation of Frank Miller's glorious parody of genre, Sin City.

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and creature actor/director Alan Maxson (of Alan Maxson's Alien Planet) to discuss a sci-fi noir blend about the treatment of humans as a literal rat experiment of identity, memory, and experience in Alex Proyas' Dark City.

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by writer Alex Buda and actor Ben McGinley to discuss a strange and off kilter classic noir, the self-possessed  dying man as detective in Rudolph Mate's D.O.A.

In the forty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and editor Krtisi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and Next) to discuss a little known police procedural noir that reunited Otto Preminger with his Laura stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, the corrupt world of gangsters and cops with means to an end in Where the Sidewalk Ends.

In the forty-second episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss a quintessential 70s malaise noir of dissatisfaction and obfuscation in Arthur Penn's detective criticism Night Moves.

In the forty-first episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and streamer Daniel Lopez (of the Corrupt Immoral Channel) to discuss one of Samuel Fuller's most incendiary and diabolical works about the downward obsession and corruptible aims of vengeance in Underworld U.S.A.

In the fortieth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by writer Tristan Fortier and musician/actor Boston Stergis to discuss a wonderfully misunderstood remake of a Hemingway novel from Hollywood craftsman Michael Curtiz, the pitfall tale of trying to have a sense of control and a sense of ownership in a world that owns you in The Breaking Point.

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and Next) and musician Ben Childs to discuss the meticulous and obsessive dive into the media hysteria, investigative bureaucratic nightmare, and cultural flashpoint that defines David Fincher's magnum opus, Zodiac.

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional podcast) and filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss a lesser known Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger collaboration, their psychologically intimate noir war drama about clarity of purpose and the illusion of control in The Small Back Room.

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by actor/singer/traveler Reagan Osborne and fellow cinephile Ben McGinley to discuss  B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer's rickshaw and threadbare production of a hard-boiled tale of paranoia, insecurity, and fatalistic end in the pulp poetry that is Detour