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

In the eleventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to decipher the strange dreamy musical world of childhood trauma, authoritarian anxiety, and psychological mirroring concocted by Dr. Seuss in the flawed yet mesmerizing original and grand musical production known as The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953).

In the tenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and stunt actor Danny. Hernandez to discuss the culmination of Busby Berkeley's visionary talents of surrealistic deviations, optimistic aptitude, and choreographic maximalism and how they were utilized to express unity, collaboration, and hope during World War II in The Gang's All Here (1943).

In the ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss musical extraordinaire Vincent Minnelli's debut feature film, the archetypal moral fable about the oppressive nature of our forced bifurcated choice between earthly temptation and transcendent spiritualism in the rare all black musical Cabin in the Sky (1943).

In the eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and musician Ben Childs to discuss the musical biopic of Broadway legend George M. Cohan and how he fused together show business with the zeitgeist of patriotism that helped mythologize the idealistic idea of America just as he mythologized his own existence in the splendid and catchy studio musical...

In the seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the backstage musical oddity of  dissonant artistry and the audience as voyeur that makes up Dorothy Arzner's half experimental take on the conventional musical form and its romantic assumptions that defines the B-movie flair of Dance, Girl, Dance (1940).

In the sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile/filmmaker Mario Ruiz and musician Ben Childs to discuss the charming art deco immersion of dance and class enhanced by George Stevens' exquisite craftsmanship capturing the iconic force duo that was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the screwball musical Swing Time (1936).

In the fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor/script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow cinephile Derek Paranay to discuss the underlying gender, class, and political frustrations of The Great Depression contained in the screwball antics and mild commentary of peripheral artists and citizens in Mervyn LeRoy and choreographer Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933...

In the fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the turmoil and collective struggle in putting on a show of escapism and meaning during The Great Depression in Lloyd Bacon's co-collaboration with choreographer Busby Berkley in the definitive and foundational backstage musical 42nd Street (1933).

In the third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and stand-up comedian JJ Tyson to discuss the subversive pre-code musical comedy about passion, class, and identity in Rouben Mamoulian's meta-textual experiment and satirical commentary on genre in the exquisitely delightful Love Me Tonight (1932).

In the second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez for a one-on-one conversation about René Clair's blend of surrealist sound design and fantastical musical touches that enhance his delightful tale of love conquering monetary dependency in the ingenuously constructed Le Million (1931).

In the Season Premiere of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Bumper in Berlin) and screenwriter Katy Baldwin (of the Story Yelling Podcast) to discuss an elusive musical gem from the early talkie era of Hollywood with King Vidor's loving and parable driven examination of black spirituals and rituals in the South and their dynamic of passion versus reason in...

In the season finale of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss Wes Anderson's fable of adolescence and how it reflects on the fear of entering the constant cycles of perpetual coming-of-age that defines adulthood in the semi-autobiographical Rushmore (1998).

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the seminal coming-of-age film about high school archetypes caught in a purgatorial confrontation with their insecurities, vulnerabilities, and connections that defines John Hughes' radical human portrait of teenage angst in The Breakfast Club (1985).

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor/writer Katy Baldwin and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the traumatic and damaging avenues of nurturing when it comes to coming-of-age in Yorgos Lanthimos's brutalist invocation of the oppressive family unit and the faulty positive assumptions it imbeds in society in the haunting yet darkly humorous Dogtooth...

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, cinematographer Josh Carter, writer/editor Katy Baldwin, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the blend of genre nightmare and beautiful romance that makes up Tomas Alfredson's horror fable between two outsiders and their need to survive in the subversive coming-of-age adaptation of John Ajvide L...

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by filmmakers Mario Ruiz and Jordan Berry to discuss the dense and detailed immersion into the memory of a nostalgic yet indifferent Taiwan of the past as it weaves in commentary on masculinity, identity, and fractured politics into a tragic coming-of-age downward spiral that defines Edward Yang's beautiful yet daunting A...

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and sound designer/musician Jake Dilley to discuss the revolutionary bent in both form and theme that defines Lindsay Anderson's full frontal assault on British imperial traditionalism and the imbedded ritualistic brutality in the scholastic institutions in the counter cultural film If.... (1968).

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and film critic Tyler Harlow to discuss the unflinching tonal discomfort of Todd Solondz's immersion into the onslaught of degradation and shame in Junior High School which captures the true painful liminality between adolescence and adulthood in Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995).

In the forty-third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the nature vs. nurture influence on coming-of-age set against the mythological landscape of America through its tragic past and its uncertain future embodied in the Biblical symbology of the Trask family in Elia Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's epic E...

In the forty-second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the lyrical and poetic true crime inversion that tackles a generation of detachment, the dangers of personal mythology, and the adolescent divide between impulse and reason that defines the stunning debut of Terrence Malick, Badlands (1973).

In the forty-first episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to break down the perpetual boredom and haunting apathy of the new pre-grunge youth in Tim Hunter's exquisite sociological horror of curdled morality in River's Edge (1986).

In the fortieth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to discuss the children lost to a societal failure in the 1970s trash infested tenements of Glasgow in Lynne Ramsay's poetic, lyrical, and devastating coming-of-age tale Ratcatcher (1999).

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriters David Gutierrez and Gio Maldonado to discuss the melancholic ode to the lost small town of America, the inevitability of change, and how some people get left behind in Peter Bogdanovich's deeply moving and thoroughly honest portrait of aging beyond our history, legacy, and myth in The Last Picture Show (1...

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Benjamin McGinley to discuss Barry Levinson's loving ode to the "lost generation," their masculine insecurity, and their sanctuary of perpetual irresponsibility in the drastically underseen and greatly underappreciated influential gem Diner (1982).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez for a one-on-one discussion of André Téchiné's semi-autobiographical tale of sexual discovery and political conflict amongst teens set against the backdrop of the ending turmoil of the French-Algerian war in the beautifully rendered and extremely tender coming-of-age film Wild Reeds (1994...