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

In the eleventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and fellow podcaster Lee (of Spro and Lee Take on the Academy) to discuss the animated beauty and brutality of Marjane Satrapi's own graphic novel adaptation of the auto-biographical coming-of-age complications of gender, politics, and identity in post-revolutionary Iran in Persepolis (2007).

In the tenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the fragmentation of time, culture, and gender that defines the multi-faceted coming-of-age survival tale set against the brutality of the outback and the impact of colonialism in Nicolas Roeg's experimentally crafted Walkabout (1971).

In the ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter Steve Bolia to discuss the horror landscape of high school and how it acts as a permutation and microcosm of societal expectation, judgment, and humiliation in Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's mean-spirited novel on the retaliation of power that is Carrie (1976).

In the eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the intimate bonds of friendship and the imaginary yet fully felt worlds they create in Peter Jackson's true crime deconstruction Heavenly Creatures (1994).

In the seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter/editor Katy Baldwin and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the ethereal psychological space between the colonialist sentiment and the aboriginal dreamscape that seeps into the rhythms of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

In the sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, writer August Gummere, musician Ben Childs, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the unrelenting and bleak immersion into the dehumanizing cycle and horror of war in the anti-war film to end all other anti-war films, Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985).

In the fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and musician Ben Childs to discuss the unforgiving and sad coming-of-age lessons of ambiguous moral discovery in the wild west in Robert Benton's revisionist western Bad Company (1972).

In the fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and streamer Daniel Lopez to discuss Roberto Rossellini's bold neo-realist portrait of the rubble and ruin of World War II's ground zero and the shamed populace at its center in the humanistic and challenging Germany, Year Zero (1948).

In the third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by journalist Kerry Harwin and writer August Gummere to discuss the lyrical and poetic neo-realist inspired reflection of India's transition into modernity as it is seen and experienced through the joys and dangers of childhood in Satyajit Ray's first feature film Pather Panchali (1955).

In the second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the gutwrenching depiction of children lost in Italy's post-war system of cruelty, punishment, and bureaucracy in Vittorio De Sica's stunning coming-of-age masterpiece, Shoeshine (1946).

In the season premiere of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and filmmaker Michael Willer to discuss the seminal coming-of-age tale from François Truffaut, the rebelliously technical and the emotionally resonant depiction of youthful truancy, discovery, and identity in the classic The 400 Blows (1959).

In the season finale of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by writer/traveler Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss the stunning visuals and genre defying subversion of fairy tale, fable, and storytelling as magical realism is used to comment on political allegory, metaphorical journey, and the dynamic between destiny and choice in Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Laby...

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, editor Katy Baldwin, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the glam rock infused fantasia of coming-of-age responsibility, consequence, and sexuality that defines the puzzling landscape of emerging adulthood in Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986).

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and Steve Bolia to discuss the beautifully melancholic and tragic reflection on the traditional hero's journey caught between the conflict of material desire and transcendent purpose in Ang Lee's Wuxia inspired martial arts sensation Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, podcaster Ben Thelen, and fellow cinephile Daniel Lopez, to discuss the satirical and surrealist dive into existential malaise and the illusion of self-actualization in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's original and off-kilter comedy Being John Malkovich (1999).

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, novelist Samuel Cullado, and journalist Kerry Harwin, to discuss the grand operatic display of technicolor, triangle romance, and the sacrifice for art in the loose adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale of obsession from Michael Powell & Emeric Pressbu...

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss Apichatpong Weerasethakul's mesmerizing Thai film about death, reincarnation, and the abundant mysteries of the human adventure in the abundantly spiritual Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010).

In the forty-forth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss David Fincher's use of magical realism to reflect on the haunting and melancholic temporality of life in the underrated and oft-misunderstood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).

In the forty-third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, cinematographer Josh Carter, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and director Steve Shimek, to discuss the elaborate ode to storytelling, our relationship to their construction, and whether they are a path for salvation or destruction in Tarsem Singh's The Fall (2006).

In the forty-second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, musician Ben Childs, actor Dan Bauer, and novelist Alex Buda, to discuss what some consider the seminal spiritual film of all time, the character study about the shedding of post-modern ego and the embrace of charitable fulfillment in Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day (1993).

In the forty-first episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the metaphysical and secular spirituality of Krzysztof Kieślowski's thoughtful and evocative tale of the elusive idea of coincidence, destiny, and fate in the meditative The Double Life of Veronique (1991).

In the fortieth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the modern fairy tale about identity, purpose, and upending societal norms from an unlikely talking pig in Chris Noonan's Babe (1995).

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, musician Ben Childs, editor Kristi Shimek, and filmmaker Michael Willer, to discuss the weirdly maligned yet enduring spiritual sequel of Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg's ode to imagination and growing up, Hook (1991).

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the childlike wonder of imagination as it is squandered, stolen, and neglected in the whimsical yet hardened steampunk fantasia that defines Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's The City of Lost Children (1995).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and actress Thurlene Williams to discuss the fluidity of gender, societal rules, and the role of autonomy in Sally Potter's sumptuous and cheeky adaptation of Virginia Woolf's provocative feminist rallying cry in Orlando (1992).