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

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional Podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss Robert Aldrich's abstract parody and distillation of detective novel morality in the strange sci-fi noir blend of 50s red scare and nuclear war paranoia entitled Kiss Me Deadly

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and musician Ben Childs to discuss a forgotten noir gem from Andre De Toth, the mean and unglamorous police procedural that contemplates the usefulness of informant recidivism in Crime Wave (1954).

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Derek Paranay and actor Dan Bauer to discuss the perilous journey of agriculture truckers and the duplicitous city markets that create a corrupt and slanted game in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway

In the thirty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Martin Scorsese's filtering and subversion of noir paranoia, anxiety, and isolation into the complicated and layered landscape of the New York urban sprawl and the 70s malaise in Taxi Driver.

In the thirty-second episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by writer and singer Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss the fatalism of miscommunication and cultural divide, between rural and urban, black and white, cop and criminal, that defines the subtle and underappreciated neo-noir from Carl Franklin, One False Move.

In the thirty-first episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Next and Zoey's Fantastic Playlist) and podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) to discuss a buried Anthony Mann noir gem, the female centric and uncompromising in tragic fatalism crime thriller Raw Deal.

In the thirtieth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with singer, performer, and film scholar Adam Tunney to discuss one of the pinnacle foundations of the noir genre, Otto Preminger's stylish high-class gatekeeper murder mystery Laura.

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by streamer Daniel Lopez (of the Corrupt Immoral channel) and cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the use of societal anxiety, paranoia, and existential struggle imbedded in the noir and how it transplanted itself in the post-war hell hole of Japan in Akira Kurosawa's moral parable Drunken Angel.

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss an overlooked neo-noir stunner about down-and-out misfits of society and how when the right variables fall into place amoral tragedy unfolds in James Foley's After Dark, My Sweet.

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional podcast) to co-host a discussion with guest Samuel Cullado (of the DocuMental podcast) to discuss David Lynch's ode to the dream factory of Hollywood and the lost hopes, integrity, and talent that are used to sacrifice themselves to achieve a semblance of that dream.

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by composer Austin Howard and fellow cinephile Derek Paranay to discuss Samuel Fuller's tabloid noir of political subterfuge and the thieves code that thrives in an amoral city in Pickup on South Street.

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir (halfway mark!), Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Guiterrez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the effortlessly cool blend of 1940s gangster noirs with 1960s French pop fashion (a timeless mixture) that defined the hyper-stylized masterpiece of cultural and individual isolation in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by The Plot Hole co-host Devin Parker and podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) to discuss the blend of slasher horror and fatalistic noir that began and defined the trajectory of The Coen Brothers' insightful and darkly comic portraits of marginal America in their debut Blood Simple.

In the twenty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by raconteur Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional Podcast) and composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa music) to discuss Billy Wilder's three pronged attack on sensationalist media, toxic ambition, and a complacent populace that is one of the purest and most scathing indictments on American culture in his most cynical work, Ace...

In the twenty-second episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the spiritual and evocative portrait of a city in political division and a man confronting his guilt, regret, and identity in Carol Reed's first masterpiece, Odd Man Out.

In the twenty-first episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss the nightmarish folktale of religious zealotry and false prophets at the center of Charles Laughton's only directorial feature The Night of the Hunter.

In the twentieth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Galen Howard to discuss the loving European homage to the cynical  and amoral underpinnings of the film noir in Wim Wenders' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game.

In the nineteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir,  Kyle is joined by actors Dan Bauer and Ben McGinley to discuss the world of entertainment and police corruption at the heart of  the city expansion of Los Angeles in Curtis Hanson's adaptation of James Ellroy's novel L.A. Confidential.

In the eighteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the stylistic and narrative embodiment of the noir in the futuristic art-deco designs, psychological chiaroscuro lighting, and tragic flashback narration of  Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

In the seventeenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and editor Kristi Shimek (see Next on Fox/Hulu) to discuss the quintessential heist noir that ventured sympathetic portraits of criminals whose code of honor meant something in a corrupt, disillusioned America, John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle.

In the sixteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray and fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the heartbreaking tragedy between two lovers destined for isolation due to their far too damaged selves and a searing indictment on Hollywood celebrity and eccentricity in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place.

In the fifteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and filmmaker Michael Willer (from the Big Fat Gay Podcast) to discuss the cynical masterpiece about societal corruption and the complications of having moral integrity in a fractured world that is Fritz Lang's devilishly cynical The Big Heat.

In the fourteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by musician and actor Boston Stergis, as well as podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast), to discuss revolutionary female filmmaker Ida Lupino's scathing indictment of fragile male ego and passive inaction in the economic and thrilling noir The Hitch-Hiker.

In the thirteenth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by singer, actor, traveler Reagan Osborne to discuss the melancholic fatalism at the tender heart of Nicholas Ray's lyrical film noir about the existential circumstance of love between societal outcasts, They Live by Night.

In the twelfth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by a panel of guests: script supervisor Katy Baldwin, cinematographer Josh Carter, and actor Ben McGinley. Together we discuss various aspects and stylistic flourishes of Ridley Scott's sci-fi embodiment of the isolation, moral uncertainty, and fatalistic direction that defined the traditional noir and expanded it to new heig...