Subgenre

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal is joined by screenwriter and film buff Steve Baumgartner as they begin a two-part, marathon dive into the fabled German-language U-boat endurance test, Das Boot - Director's Cut , directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starring Jürgen Prochnow and Herbert Grönemeyer. Topics of discussion include: the eternal Tetris game of food storage in a submersible tu...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal is joined by guest host N.C. Jones, a filmmaker and screenwriter, to pick apart the classic, Oscar-winning 1957 submarine film, The Enemy Below , directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchem and Curd Jürgens in his American film debut, based on a novel by D.A. Rayner. Topics of discussion include Robert Mitchum's evil side, the peculiarities of...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal is joined by guest host Mary Thurman of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios to go deep on the 2002 nuclear timebomb film K-19: The Widowmaker , directed by Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, and Peter Sarsgaard. Topics of discussion include Harrison Ford and the "everyman" archetype, the moving cinematography of Jeff Cronenweth,...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal is joined by his guest host, playwright Allan Maule, to discuss the 2000 "we just stole a Nazi submarine" movie, U-571 , directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring  Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Harvey Keitel. Topics of discussion include favorite films of the World War II era, why you should never send a big person to do a tiny person's job, an...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal is joined by his guest host, educational/science TikTok star and "science mom", Charlotte Moore, aka Charlotte A. Cavatica, to discuss the 1995 coup-on-a-submarine picture, Crimson Tide , directed by Tony Scott, and starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. Topics of discussion include the dire need for more female representation in the submarine fi...

In this episode of Subgenre , host Josh Dasal is joined by his guest host and brilliant wife, the creator and host of the acclaimed ArtCurious podcast, Jennifer Dasal, to discuss the 2019 French submarine puzzler, Le chant du loup (The Wolf's Call) , directed by Antonin Baudry, and starring  François Civil, Omar Sy, and Mathieu Kassovitz. Topics of discussion include the worst ways to repair a stu...

In this episode of Subgenre Season 1, host Josh Dasal is joined by his guest host, screenwriter and Academy Award-nominated producer Fabian Marquez ( Spides ), to discuss the 1958 classic undersea film, Run Silent Run Deep , directed by Robert Wise, and starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Topics of discussion include the propaganda of Tokyo Rose, the powdered milk moment, the sickness that sh...

In the inaugural episode of Subgenre Season 1, host Josh Dasal is joined by his guest host, Deep Thought, to discuss the expansive and taut 1990 political action-thriller, The Hunt for Red October , directed by John McTiernan, and starring Alec Baldwin and Sir Sean Connery. Topics of discussion include Josh's definition of a submarine movie, the story of Sean Connery's $20,000 hairpiece, the class...

This is your first listen to the brand new Subgenre podcast, hosted by Josh Dasal, co-producer of the hit podcast, ArtCurious . Join Josh and his rotating slate of funny, knowledgeable, and irreverent guest hosts as they break down movies in film subcategories you forgot your loved. In this first season of the show, we discuss and dissect films across the always thrilling and claustrophobic subgen...