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

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 fort-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 (2003).

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 in the Dark (2000).

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-Turvy (1999).

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).

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with editor and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the melancholic loneliness of being stuck in creative stagnation and the hidden resentments the rise to the surface when not confronted in Steve Kloves' engaging character trinity of working class creativity, The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile August Gummere and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the exuberant cult oddity that is Makoto Tezuka's concept album turned into cinematic music videos in the madcap comedy and music industry critique, The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985).

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Mario Ruiz and musician Ben Childs to discuss the eccentric anthropological investigation into the contradictions and tabloids of a small Texas city that becomes a microcosm of the multi-faceted and strange existence of America itself in David Byrne's off-kilter musical True Stories (1986)

In the thirty-third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the openly progressive deconstruction of gender, identity, and sexuality of Blake Edwards' warm and tender ode to the cabaret burlesque outsiders of 1930s Paris in the grand gender bending musical Victor/Victoria (1982).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss a true cult gem that tackles the late 70s/early 80s youth disillusionment, artist commodification, and the corruption of identity that crafted the punk and post-punk ethos in Lou Adler's rock n roll feminist musical Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982). 

In the thirty-first episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter David Gutierrez, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, to discuss the Robert Altman's incisive microcosm of the cult of America as presented in an experimental, improvisational, and painterly depiction of the country music capital of the world that is Nashville (1975).

In the thirtieth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss Martin Scorsese's highly ambitious  deconstruction of the musical in how it crafts an artificial expectation from genre and then clashes with the New Hollywood sensibilities of realism in the uneven yet sensational New York, New York (1977).

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the true oddity and gimmick that is Alan Parker's theatrical debut, a pastiche ode to both the 1930s gangster films and the 1930s musicals that stars children at the center of its implications and violence without any sense of commentary or irony: Bugsy Malone (1976).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep it Musical!) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the onslaught of clashing genre and explosive technical self-assuredness that defined the Star Wars of Bollywood in the grand musical action melodrama of Ramesh Sippy's cultural watershed masterpiece Sholay (1975).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, filmmaker Michael Willer, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss the powerful musical about one man's struggle with the collision of religious tradition against the inevitable fluctuations of change as it parallels the displacement of community, identity, and history in Norman Jewison's adaptation of the great Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof (1971).