A film history and theory podcast that delves deep into a variety of favorites and elusive gems one specific genre at a time. Join the journey and together we can learn about film, auteurs, genre, and the general art of cinema better. The title is facetious, calm down. New Episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Season 12: On the Road - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Episode 13)
In the thirteenth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the bloated and sensationalized satire of American materialism, avarice, and selfishness defined by its signature stunt casting, exaggerated production, and indulgent runtime in Stanley Kramer's "comedy to end all comedies" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1962).
Season 12: On the Road - Il Sorpasso (Episode 12)
In the twelfth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the highly symbolic satire that pits two mismatched protagonists in a concentrated mosaic of Italian masculinity, materialism, and emerging post-war culture that is Dino Risi's Il Sorpasso (1962)
Season 12: On the Road - Wild Strawberries (Episode 11)
In the eleventh episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the abstract and personal depiction of the road movie traversing the subconscious in Ingmar Bergman's meditative and probing deconstruction of legacy, love, and meaning in Wild Strawberries (1957).
Season 12: On the Road - Viaggio In Italia (Episode 10)
In the tenth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the modernizing film language of Roberto Rossellini as he excavates his own deteriorating marriage through the lens of societal privilege, historical devastation, and personal isolation in the psychological road film Viaggio in Italia (1954).
Season 12: On the Road - La Strada (Episode 9)
In the ninth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with fellow podcaster Spro Frosty to discuss the neo-realist and fantasy blended time capsule of post-War Italy in Federico Fellini's masterful dissection of damaged masculinity and the enduring human spirit in La Strada (1954).
Season 12: On the Road - The Wages of Fear (Episode 8)
In the eighth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the existentialist brooding and colonialist critique that is Henri-Georges Clouzot's adaptation of Georges Arnaud's personally inspired assessment of the human condition in one of the greatest film thrillers of all time, The Wages of Fear (1953).
Season 12: On the Road - Gun Crazy (Episode 7)
In the seventh episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss one of the many Bonnie and Clyde riffs about two lovers on the lam in the psychosexual and pulsating B-movie noir about repressed desire and anti-conformity that is Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy (1950).
Season 12: On the Road - I Know Where I'm Going! (Episode 6)
In the sixth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the collision of reality and mythology in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fable about a determined and self-absorbed heroine being humbled by nature, culture, and ultimately love in the beautiful romance film I Know Where I'm Going! (1945).
Season 12: On the Road - Sullivan's Travels (Episode 5)
In the fifth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter Katy Baldwin to discuss the anarchic blend of comedy and social commentary that defined the call for needed escapism in times of hardship in Preston Sturges' Hollywood satire Sullivan's Travels (1941).
Season 12: On the Road - The Grapes of Wrath (Episode 4)
In the fourth episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the lyrical and poetic adaptation of John Steinbeck's bleak novel detailing the odyssey of the Joad family as the microcosm of the Dust Bowl experience of economic displacement and the commitment to family in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Season 12: On the Road - It Happened One Night (Episode 3)
In the third episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter and fellow podcaster Spro Frosty to discuss the democratic appeal and endearing charm of Frank Capra's ode to the survivalism, community, and love juxtaposed with the hardship and division of wealth that defined the Great Depression in the classic road movie It Happened One Night (1934).
Season 12: On the Road - Wild Boys of the Road (Episode 2)
In the second episode of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with fellow podcaster Sara Shea from Shea Cinema to discuss one of William A. Wellman's message pictures about the urgency of the growing population of juvenile delinquents trying to be productive and survive during the Great Depression in Wild Boys of the Road (1933).
Season 12: On the Road - The General (Episode 1)
In the premiere of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter Katy Baldwin to discuss the heroic stoicism and occasionally problematic historical revisionism of Buster Keaton's silent spectacle epic The General (1926), which translated Southern apologia into a character driven search for validated identity.
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Fight Club (Episode 50)
In the season finale of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by fellow podcasters Spro & Lee from Spro & Lee Take on the Academy to discuss the divisive and controversial film about toxic masculinity, corporate drone fealty, and the turn to violence as a form of rabid self-denial in David Fincher's assaultive adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's satirically incisive novel, Fight Club (1999).
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - The Shawshank Redemption (Episode 49)
In the forty-ninth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and director Michael Willer to discuss the wide cult acclaim of Frank Darabont's earnest and soulful adaptation of a Stephen King short story that reflects on being imprisoned by fear and the road to emancipation through a parable of hope in one of the most beloved films of all time, The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Big Trouble in Little China (Episode 48)
In the forty-eighth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by actors Ben McGinley and Nick Earl to discuss the high-fantasy blend of genre, from the American western to the Shaw Brothers kung-fu epics, in John Carpenter's unapologetically wild immersion into action hero tropes, the power of community, and a commentary on the fear of the unknown in the cult sensation Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Episode 47)
In the forty-seventh episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter August Gummere and editor Kristi Shimek to break down the deconstructionist comedy about Arthurian legend, extreme class division, and the false notion of god granted nobility in the exquisitely crafted and thoroughly surrealist masterpiece from the Beatles of comedy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Dog Soldiers (Episode 46)
In the forty-sixth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter Katy Baldwin to discuss the B-movie concoction of soldiers with guns, practical monsters, and horror gore that defined the DIY spirit and ingenuity of Neil Marshall in his directorial debut Dog Soldiers (2002).
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - The Beast (Episode 45)
In the forty-fifth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin for a one-on-one conversation to discuss Kevin Reynolds' claustrophobic and thrilling tank drama in the mire of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that is the cult war film The Beast (1988).
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Donnie Darko (Episode 44)
In the forty-fourth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the blend of time travel, religious symbolism, post-Cold War hysteria, and Generation X detachment in Richard Kelly's ambitious and allegorical debut in the moody teen high concept sci-fi, Donnie Darko (2001).
