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

In the eleventh episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with fellow podcaster Sean Ellis to discuss old school comedy dynamics and personality contrasts in regards to the Universal power duo of Abbott and Costello in the money making gimmick of putting them into a different franchise entirely in Charles Barton's Abbott and Costello Meet Franken...

In the tenth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with comparative literature professor Suleiman Hodali as we dig deep into the hidden shame and guilt of French colonialism in Michael Haneke's confrontational thriller that puts a bourgeois marriage, a media mogul, and a country under the surveillance microscope in the exquisite film Cach é  ...

In the ninth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for one-on-one conversation with filmmaker and creature actor Alan Maxson to discuss the societal commentary and bleak parables that define the Planet of the Apes franchise and specifically explore the ramifications of time travel, prejudice, and the dangers of science as a religion in Don Taylor's third installment of th...

In the eighth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for one-on-one conversation with musician David Sanders to discuss the comedic duality of parody as it both fondly appreciates its influences while also intentionally subverting them into mockery as we turn to Neil Simon and Robert Moore's skewering of the tropes and convolutions of the classic, novelistic murder mystery...

In the seventh episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the cartoon logic and whimsical absurdity of an epic form comedy that blends archetypal character subversion and exaggerated antics galore in Blake Edwards' ode to silent era craft and form in The Great Race (1965).

In the sixth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined by cinematographer Ryan Alva to discuss the animated film built on a societal commentary on fear as it relates to the emerging paranoia of communism, the "other", and the development of modern weaponry in Brad Bird's ode to 1950s science-fiction B-movies that is The Iron Giant (1999).

In the fifth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Derek Paranay to discuss the joy of nostalgia and the formative encouragement of the hero's journey in Nick Castle's ode to the everyman in the science-fiction space opera fantasy about putting theoretical skill into practical application in The Last Starfighter (1984).

In the fourth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for one-on-one conversation with screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the unique blend of existential apocalyptic horror and slapstick camp comedy that made a zombie cult sensation that redefined a genre in Dan O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead (1985).

In the third episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the Coen Brothers' underrated retooling of the Torah's Book of Job as it surveys the cultural upheaval and religious existential uncertainty of a Jewish-American man caught between the dimming light of rationality and the frustrating futility of faith in A Serious Man (2009).

In the second episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with sketch writer and actor Dan Bauer to discuss Jorma Taccone's absurd action satire about infantile masculinity, patriotic exaggeration, and homoerotic testosterone tensions that define the SNL sketch adaptation that is the cult film MacGruber (2010).

In the season premiere of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined by script supervisor and editor Katy Baldwin for a one-on-one conversation about the inventive blending of genre, the grounded deadpan comedy towards the supernatural, and the perfect trifecta of personalities that created one of the lasting pop cultural sensations of the 80s in Ivan Reitman's popular cult classic Ghost...

In the season finale of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Katy Baldwin, editor Kristi Shimek, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the contradictions of hedonism, creativity, and expression against the backdrop of impending fascism, prejudice, and hate in the Weimer Republic that is Bob Fosse's audacious meta-musical that served as a parallel com...

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter Reagan Osborne to discuss the foundational musical classic of abstract choreography, sensational lyricism, and exquisite composition that defined the modernized version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet turned into a commentary about bubbling race antagonism in America i...

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and musician Ben Childs to discuss the framework of Greek tragedy conceptualized by songwriting duo Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken to comment on the falseness of nostalgia, the desperation of poverty, and the dangers of feeding into societal avarice in Frank Oz's adaptation of Little Shop of Horr...

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and fellow podcaster Sean Ellis to discuss the irreverent cultural commentary on angry parents, societal irresponsibility, and the absurdity of systemic MPAA censorship in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's feature length addition to their vulgar television sensation in South Park: Bigger, Longe...

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Katy Baldwin, artist Anna Cullado, and fellow podcaster Claire White, to discuss the gaudy artificiality of Baz Luhrmann's operatic ode to Bohemian ideals, classic love story mythology, and the power of the stage in the madcap stylized musical of musicals that is Moulin Rouge! (2001).

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and actor Dan Bauer to discuss the folk musical poem of unrequited love, intimate collaboration, and the beauty of encouragement in the down-to-earth, low-budget indie musical sensation from John Carney, Once (2007).

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss and dissect the surrealist experimentation of 30s stylization combined with a commentary on the exploitation and commodification of trauma, sadness, and tragedy in Guy Maddin's exquisitely funny and farcical musical The Saddest Music in the World (200...

In the forty-third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the controversial anti-musical that deconstructs the genre's inherent romanticism towards fantasy, wish fulfillment, and myth as it relates to the American project for workers, mothers, and immigrants in Lars Von Trier's relentlessly bleak Dancer i...

In the forty-second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Michael Willer and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the raucous punk rock musical sensation that shattered the gender binary and confronted the modern complexity of personal identity before there was official language to do so in John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001).

In the forty-first episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by journalist Kerry Harwin and stand-up comedian JJ Tyson to discuss Mike Leigh's immersion into the sumptuous fantasy and detailed naturalism of Victorian England as it surveys the partnership of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan that turns into a grand collaborative study of company creation in Topsy...

In the fortieth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical) Kyle is joined by editor Katy Baldwin and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss the illusive truth of performance and identity as it relates to the glittery, flamboyant, and counter cultural movement of British Glam Rock that is embodied in spirit, essence, and time in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine (1998).

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep it Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Katy Baldwin and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss the Disney renaissance flop that turned into a cult classic about a collective bargaining historical event turned into a wish fulfilling fantasy of dynamic unity in Kenny Ortega's strike musical Newsies (1992).

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the fabulous madcap immersion into the insanely competitive world of ballroom dancing in Baz Luhrmann's directorial debut about creative authenticity and collaborative trust that is Strictly Ballroom (1992).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and artist Anna Cullado to discuss the heightened camp of nostalgia and exaggerated stylization in John Waters' glorious ode to 50s era aesthetic and the prominent deconstruction of the absurd black-and-white morality of its time in the fun and chaotic musical Cry-Baby (1990).