• Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - The Fifth Element (Episode 16)
    2025/02/20

    In the sixteenth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and activist Kerry Harwin to discuss the opulent world building of Luc Besson's ode to comic book color and science-fiction grandeur in the flamboyant, gender-bending, and archetype subverting space opera centering around the mythic battle between good and evil that is The Fifth Element (1997).

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    2 時間 4 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - The Ruling Class (Episode 15)
    2025/02/18

    In the fifteenth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter August Gummere and podcaster Lee Charles from Spro & Lee Take on the Academy to discuss the irreverent and dark satire on the absurd notion of assumed ruling class divinity, power, and wisdom filtered through the schizophrenic identity of one particular British Lord in Peter Medak's uproarious adaptation of Peter Barnes' experimental play The Ruling Class (1972).

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    1 時間 52 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - The Devils (Episode 14)
    2025/02/13

    In the fourteenth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado for a one-on-one conversation about Ken Russell's controversial political treatise about the precarious merger between church and state, the use of mass hysteria as a tool of control, and the persecution of the righteous (sound familiar) in the horrific historical retelling of the largest demonic possession event in history, The Devils (1971).

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    1 時間 48 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Beat the Devil (Episode 13)
    2025/02/11

    In the thirteenth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss one of the first entries in the category of camp film, John Huston's oddball and accidental inversion of the classic noir in the humorously existential and meandering hardboiled mystery that is the Truman Capote penned adaptation of James Helvick's novel Beat the Devil (1953).

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    1 時間 51 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - American Psycho (Episode 12)
    2025/02/06

    In the twelfth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss Mary Harron's adaptation of the famously unadaptable novel by Bret Easton Ellis about the pathetic, isolated, and insecure perfect consumerist serial killer Patrick Bateman and his fulfillment of the corporation as a human promise of Reagan-era Wall Street economics known as American Psycho (2000).

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    2 時間 6 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Better Off Dead (Episode 11)
    2025/02/04

    In the eleventh episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the off-kilter dark teen comedy that ventures into the surrealist psychology of a loser teen who needs to grow beyond his oppressive sense of high school, self, and the present in Savage Steve Holland's semi-autobiographical Better Off Dead (1985).

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    1 時間 56 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Prime Cut (Episode 10)
    2025/01/30

    In the tenth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor/musician Nick Earl to discuss the neo-noir curio that mixed together Hollywood prestige and the emerging exploitation genre into a mean-spirited indictment of Southern moral hypocrisy and the inherent corruption of power in Michael Ritchie's Prime Cut (1972).

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    2 時間 1 分
  • Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - My Dinner with Andre (Episode 9)
    2025/01/28

    In the ninth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and screenwriter/critic Joseph Hamersly to discuss one of the true unique works in cinema history, the whimsical and philosophical conversation of two friends at an existential divide within their cosmopolitan comforts in Louis Malle's experimental, Brechtian, and introspective film My Dinner with Andre (1981).

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    2 時間 18 分