Subgenre

Beating a dead horse, we're continuing our 2-part Subgenre roundtable show! In this second part of our two-episode season finale, host Josh Dasal and return guest hosts - Playwright Allan Maule, TikTok influencer Charlotte Moore-Lambert, Oscar-nominated producer-writer Fabian Marquez, and producer and advertising director Nick Heim, continue through the paint-peeling asylum that is 12 Monkeys (199...

We're back with another questionable Subgenre roundtable show! In this first of our two-episode season finale, host Josh Dasal and a who's that of return guest hosts - TikTok influencer Charlotte Moore-Lambert, playwright Allan Maule, producer and advertising director Nick Heim, and Oscar-nominated producer-writer Fabian Marquez - go more than a little nuts breaking down the Terry Gilliam global p...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and return guest host, TikTokker and voice talent Charlotte Moore-Lambert, get ridiculous about an even more ludicrous premise - that may be the best time-twisting, serial killer comedy you've ever seen. It's science fiction writer H.G. Wells tracking Jack the Ripper in future America in the 1979 adventure-comedy-suspense film, Time After Time , direct...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and return guest host, Mary Thurman, animation writer at Noggin, return to the world of anime with the sprawling 2016 Makoto Shinkai body swap meets natural disaster picture, Your Name. Topics of discussion include how to tell stories in animation, the perils of Japanese pronouns, and red cord of fate. Guest host: Mary Thurman, animation writer X: @mar...

In this hefty episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and his return guest host, screenwriter and Hollywood studio executive Steve Baumgartner, go in circles inside circles about the 2012 Rian Johnson-directed sci-fi time scrambler, Looper , starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt. Topics of discussion include the perils of budget green screen, the movie magic of Jeff Daniels, a...

In this installment of The Pickup Shot , host Josh Dasal, and guest host NC Jones, screenwriter and filmmaker, expand their conversation about the Czech New Wave absurdist comedy, Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1979), and get to the bottom of what constitutes  absurdist filmmaking, it's polarizing nature, and why it can be so rewarding, if you give it a chance. Subscribe to Subge...

In this highly unusual Subgenre episode, host Josh Dasal and his guest host, filmmaker NC Jones, get lost in one of the oddest time travel movies - heck, oddest movies - ever covered here, the 1979 Czech New Wave absurdist film, Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea , directed by Jindrich Polák. It's a space-age, time travel, doppleganger, Nazi-defeating love story set behind the Iron Cu...

In this Subgenre episode, host Josh Dasal and his guest host, playwright Allan Maule, might need a whole body full of tattooed clues to untangle this film school favorite, the 2000 Christopher Nolan memory thriller, Memento , starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. It could be real, or it could all be in our minds. And there's not one John G. among us. Guest host: Allan Maule, p...

In this installment of The Pickup Shot , host Josh Dasal, and guest host Jennifer Dasal of the hit podcast and book ArtCurious , take you beyond the celluloid to discuss Somewhere in Time [1980] from an art historical perspective - expanding on the look and feel of the movie and how it relates to fine art and artists of the time. Subscribe to Subgenre and check out the full episode, Somewhere in T...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and guest host Jennifer Dasal, host of the hit podcast and book ArtCurious , continue Season 3: Time Twisters with a journey back to 1980 for a gauzy period piece about the power of true love knowing no bounds across the ages. Starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer at their beautiful best, we take you to the Grand Hotel on Ma...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and guest host, filmmaker, video producer, and advertising director Nick Heim, kick off Season 3: Time Twisters as they wake up again and again to the 1993 film about a self-absorbed weatherman, a rodent, and the day that just won't go away. It's Groundhog Day, again. Directed by Ghostbuster the late Harold Ramis, and starring Billy Murray and Andie Ma...

In our final episode of Season 2: Charming Thieves, we're continuing our roundtable show with part two of this two-part episode of Subgenre. Host Josh Dasal and his return guest hosts, sans two - advertising director Nick Heim and playwright Allan Maule - take a final run at Steven Soderbergh's remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001) , starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and Andy Garcia, an...

It's our first roundtable show! In the first part of this two-part episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and his return guest hosts - producer-writer Fabian Marquez, advertising director Nick Heim, playwright Allan Maule, and TikTok influencer Charlotte Moore-Lambert, go all-in on the 2001 Steven Soderbergh-directed remake masterpiece, Ocean's Eleven (2001) , starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Ju...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and his first-time guest host, producer, advertising director, and Muppet afficionado Nick Heim, get felt up - [insert Statler and Waldorf laugh here] - as they release their nerdy perspectives on the 1981 high-fashion jewel heist in London romp, The Great Muppet Caper , directed by the puppet master himself, Jim Henson, and starring Kermit the Frog, M...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and his guest host, screenwriter and Hollywood studio guy Steve Baumgartner, reach all the way back to the dawn of the French New Wave as they react to the 1956 French-language noir classic, Bob le flambeur , directed by esteemed filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring film veteran Roger Duchesne and ingenue Isabelle Corey in a movie about down an...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and his guest host, playwright Allan Maule, buy a ticket for the 1978 treasure heist period piece, The Great Train Robbery , directed by acclaimed author Michael Crichton, and starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Leslie-Ann Down as Victorian-era thieves out to to hijack a locomotive full of Crimean gold. Topics of discussion include the wide-r...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and his guest host, screenwriter and filmmaker NC Jones, break into the 1955 lush VistaVision romantic thriller, To Catch a Thief , directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant as a French Riviera cat burglar trying to go straight, and Grace Kelly as an American socialite in love with the danger. Topics of discussion include our favorite films in...

In this installment of The Pickup Shot , host Josh Dasal and his guest host, filmmaker NC Jones, add a long-time superfan perspective to the Lupin III universe including, and beyond, Miyazaki's Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) . Subscribe to Subgenre and check out the full episode, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro [S02E03] , for more about this film. Web: subgenrepodcast.com Twitter a...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and guest host Mary Thurman, writer and producer at Noggin, tackle the show's first foray into animation with the 1979 anime classic, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro , directed by Hayao Miyazaki and released by the accomplished Studio Ghibli. Topics of discussion include what makes a great animated film, the best ladies' undergarments under which t...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and guest host, hit podcast creator and author Jennifer Dasal, continue our Season 2 on the subgenre of "charming thief" films by breaking the code of the 1992 cyber caper, Sneakers , directed by Phil Alden Robinson, and the ensemble cast of Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Mary McDonnell, Ben Kingsley, Dan Ackroyd, David Straithairn, and River Phoenix....

In this installment of The Pickup Shot , host Josh Dasal and his guest host, hit podcaster, author, and art historian Jennifer Dasal discuss the actual world of art theft and explore the real Impressionist paintings found - and stolen - in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). Subscribe to Subgenre and check out the full episode, The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) [S02E01] for more about this film. Web: sub...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal and guest host, TikTok celebrity Charlotte Moore-Lambert (@cavatica), launch Season 2 on the subgenre of "charming thief" films with a look at the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair , directed by John McTiernan, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, and Denis Leary. Topics of discussion include the "gentleman thief" character archtype, Rene Russ...

In this installment of The Pickup Shot , host Josh Dasal and his guest host, the playwright Allan Maule, discuss the consistency of nominating and awarding submarine movies like U-571 for the Best Sound Editing prize at the Oscars and elsewhere. Subscribe to Subgenre and check out the full episode, "U-571 [S01E05]" for more about this film. Web: subgenrepodcast.com Twitter and Insta: @subgenrepod...

In the first release of our short bonus content we're calling The Pickup Shot , host Josh Dasal and guest host Jennifer Dasal, creator of the ArtCurious podcast and author of the book ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History , discuss the quirkiness of living and working on a real-life submarine and how the movie Le chant du loup (The Wolf's Call)...

In the exciting final episode of Subgenre Season 1, host Josh Dasal and screenwriter/film enthusiast Steve Baumgartner wrap up their two-part, intense exploration of the U-boat cinematic monster, Das Boot - Director's Cut , directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starring Jürgen Prochnow and Herbert Grönemeyer. Topics of discussion include: the problems with the Rock of Gibraltar for a German submarine...