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

In the eleventh episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the off-kilter dark teen comedy that ventures into the surrealist psychology of a loser teen who needs to grow beyond his oppressive sense of high school, self, and the present in Savage Steve Holland's semi-autobiographical Better Off Dead (1985).

In the tenth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor/musician Nick Earl to discuss the neo-noir curio that mixed together Hollywood prestige and the emerging exploitation genre into a mean-spirited indictment of Southern moral hypocrisy and the inherent corruption of power in Michael Ritchie's Prime Cut (1972).

In the ninth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and screenwriter/critic Joseph Hamersly to discuss one of the true unique works in cinema history, the whimsical and philosophical conversation of two friends at an existential divide within their cosmopolitan comforts in Louis Malle's experimental, Brechtian, and introspective film My Dinner...

In the eighth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by filmmakers Mario Ruiz and Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the independent cult spirit of cinema experimentalist John Cassavetes in what would be his final penultimate expression of his signature raw character portraits in the emotionally elusive and narratively complex Love Streams (1984).

In the seventh episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and musician/actor Nick Earl to discuss the anarchic satire of ad men and inevitable commercialization of anti-establishment attitudes that became a revolutionary calling card for avant garde cinematic expression in Robert Downey, Sr.'s raucous and offensive Putney Swope (1969).

In the sixth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez for a one-on-one conversation about the kaleidoscopic collision of gangster underworld sadism and rock n' roll hedonism that defines Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's enigmatic dissection of the counter cultural malaise in Performance (1970).

In the fifth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and activist Kerry Harwin to discuss the experimental cult sensibilities of Richard Lester with his cynical dissection of the commodification and corruption of flower power idealism in the fractured and delirious anti-romance Petulia (1968).

In the fourth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss Peter Bogdanovich's eerily prescient dissection of America split between traditionalism and progressivism, and the emergence of real desensitized and irrational violence in its populace that defines the pseudo-horror commentary of Targets (1968).

In the third episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and artist Anna Cullado to discuss the student film from collaborators Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde that took Sundance by storm, the perverse pitch black comedy commentary on media complicity and the developing narcissistic age in the serial killer mockumentary Man Bites Dog (1...

In the second episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the DIY grotesqueness of Peter Jackson's rambunctious directorial debut that becomes a satire of action star masculinity and societal exploitation in the Monty Python inspired Bad Taste (1987).

In the premiere episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by graphic designer Nell Bailey and podcaster/filmmaker Michael Willer to discuss the godmother of cult films: Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman's delirious homage to 1950s B-movie schlock and rock n' roll with the gender-bending, taboo-breaking, and revolutionary The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

In the Season Finale of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle relinquishes hosting control to his better half Katy Baldwin so he can share one of his favorite films, the quirky and surreal immersion into the feelings of finding romance, being crippled by anxiety, and being defined by self-doubt that defines Paul Thomas Anderson's subversion of the romantic comedy in Punch-Drunk Love (2002).

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with fellow podcaster Ben Thelen to discuss the anarchic creativity of the street art movement, the commodification of expression, and the elusiveness of cinematic truth that defines one of the true artistic mosaics of the documentary form in Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010). 

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with graphic artist Nell Bailey to discuss the absurdist exaggeration of celebrity mania wrapped up in feminist declaration, music industry commentary, and time capsule nostalgia that makes up Bob Spiers' capturing of Spice Mania in Spice World (1997).

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with film critic Joseph Brandt to discuss the airy sophistication and perverse sexploitation of Harry Kümel's progressive and thoughtful vampire film about aristocratic bloodlines, gender power politics, and the transformation into the new in Daughters of Darkness (1971).

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Jordan Berry as we discuss the elusive and ambiguous psychological thriller about superficial envy and hidden desire in François Ozon's subtly disturbing short film See the Sea (1997).

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Nathan Lee to discuss the storybook fairy tale about crippling adult malaise and the awakening to appreciation in John Patrick Shanley's whimsical and surrealist examination on the renewal of life in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990).

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Connar Quigley to discuss the silly yet sly commentary on Suburban complacency, routine, and boredom showcasing cracks and disillusionment in the foundation of the American Dream in Joe Dante's The 'Burbs (1989). 

In the forty-third episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with musician and actor Boston Stergis to discuss the black comedic inversion of Shakespeare's Scottish Play as it is utilized as a commentary on futile ambition in the limited choice of the American 70s in Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA (2001).

In the forty-second episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker and musician Jake Dilley to discuss his improvisational road trip film Rocksteppy (2017) and how it was influenced by Christopher Guest's ode to simple creativity and small town unity in the mocking yet earnest depiction of the egos and characters in community theatre th...

In the forty-first episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor Ben McGinley to discuss the propaganda advertisement that transcends into a story of self-actualization in Tony Scott's adrenaline infused depiction of the Navy in all of its homoerotic camaraderie and competition known as Top Gun (1986).

In the fortieth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with podcaster and screenwriter Spro to discuss the stylistic and raw vengeance parable that surveys the power of human connection and the meaning of redemption in Tony Scott's Man on Fire (2004).

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor, teacher, and entertainer Adam Tunney to discuss a foundational 1930's proto-noir of friendship and doomed circumstances in the gangster and delinquency rumination from Michael Curtiz in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the sublime, the boredom, and everything in between of the bourgeois hedonism of a particular Italian class set in Paulo Sorrentino's odyssey of mid-life crisis actualization that is The Great Beauty (2013).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the operatic tragedy about a family fractured by the forceful nature of displacement and modernization within the economic disruption of Italy in Luchino Visconti's excellent melodrama Rocco and His Brothers (1960).