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

In the sixteenth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Daniel Lopez to discuss the pseudo-autobiographical exploration of stilted adulthood, parental disappointment, and masculinity as a prison in Vincent Gallo's personal and experimental directorial debut Buffalo 66' (1998).

In the fifteenth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker and podcaster Michael Willer to discuss the divide between idealistic intentions and the harsh realities of circumstance as it relates to a nomadic drifter, his nostalgic yet damaged past, and the parallels it takes to the vast landscape of America itself in Wim Wenders' melancholically beautiful road movie Paris, Texas (1984).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with musician Ben Childs to discuss the hopeless disillusionment of the 1970s that was translated into a cut-to-the-bone, mean-spirited vengeance story that followed a Vietnam POW molded and informed by violence and isolated by normalcy in John Flynn's Rolling Thunder (1977).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Mario Ruiz discuss the melancholic and lyrical adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's bitter novel that recollects the disillusionment and lost opportunity of the 70s as interpreted through a personal investigation of mystery, memory, and discovery in Paul Thomas Anderson's hilarious and thoughtful noir Inherent Vice (2014).

In the twelfth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with performer and screenwriter Reagan Osborne to discuss the serendipitous trifecta union of director Richard Linklater's natural rhythms, screenwriter Mike White's character driven screenplay, and actor Jack Black's exceptional performative energy that defined the inclusive, mature, and forward educational thinking comedy School of Rock (2003).

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 Frankenstein (1948).

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 Caché  (2005).

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 the franchise Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).

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 Murder by Death (1976).

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 Ghostbusters (1984).

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 commentary for the 70s feeling of disillusionment and lost idealism in the multiple Oscar-winning Cabaret (1972).

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 in Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's co-directed West Side Story (1961).

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 Horrors (1986).

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, Longer, and Uncut (1999).