Subgenre

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 MacDowell. Topics of discussion include the films of Bill Murray, the art of writing comedy that lands, and Ned... Ryerson!

Guest host: Nick Heim, producer, advertising director
Twitter: @JunctionRd
Insta: @junctionrdpics

Read more about Groundhog Day (1993) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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, and co-starring Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Elliot Gould, Eddie Jemison, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck, and Shaobo Qin. Topics of discussion include the right and wrong way to repel down an elevator shaft, a debate on the merits of the Ocean's Eleven stars' careers (spoiler: there is a definitive winner!), and more than enough discussion of Yen's "calzoning".

Guest host: Nick Heim, producer, advertising director
Twitter: @junctionrd
Insta: @junctionrdpics

Guest host: Allan Maule, playwright
Twitter: @maulerballer
Insta: @maulerballer

Read more about Ocean's Eleven (2001) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Eleven

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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, Julia Roberts, and Andy Garcia, and co-starring Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Elliot Gould, Eddie Jemison, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck, and newcomer Shaobo Qin. Topics of discussion include the art of the con on film, the delicate construction of heist planning, and whatever is happening with Don Cheadle's attempt at a British accent. Look for Part 2 coming in two weeks!

Guest host: Nick Heim, producer, advertising director
Twitter: @junctionrd
Insta: @junctionrdpics

Guest host: Allan Maule, playwright
Twitter: @maulerballer
Insta: @maulerballer

Guest host: Charlotte Moore-Lambert, TikTok celebrity and podcast producer
TikTok: @cavatica
Insta: @cavatica

Guest host: Fabian Marquez
Insta: @fabianmarquez
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549850/

Read more about Ocean's Eleven (2001) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Eleven

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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, Miss Piggy, Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg, and a cast of hundreds. Topics of discussion include Henson and company's desire to elevate the craft of puppetry in movies, how a contest produced the movie's title, and the repetitive hilarity of Murphy beds and busting lightbulbs.

Guest host: Nick Heim, producer, advertising director
Twitter: @junctionrd
Insta: @junctionrdpics

Read more about The Great Muppet Caper (1981) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082474/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Muppet_Caper

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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 and outs dreaming big in the rough Paris district of Pigalle. Topics of discussion include what makes a great crime film, the French New Wave, and whether a heist film truly needs a heist in order to work for an audience.

Guest host: Steve Baumgartner, screenwriter and studio exec

Read more about Bob le flambeur (1956) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047892/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_le_flambeur

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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-ranging films of Sean Connery, getting actors to do their own stunts (even when they don't want to), and the most agonizingly slow 75-second count in movie history.

Guest host: Allan Maule, playwright
Twitter: @maulerballer
Insta: @maulerballer

Read more about The Great Train Robbery (1978) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079240/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Great_Train_Robbery

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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 the Hitch pantheon, the metaphor of sexual fireworks, and trying to pass off Cary Grant as a nimble 35-year-old.

Guest host: NC Jones, screenwriter and filmmaker
Twitter:  @nickelJones
Insta:  @ndyjones

Read more about To Catch a Thief (1955) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048728/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Thief

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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).

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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 to conceal grenades, and whatever the hell an autogyro is.

Guest host: Mary Thurman, writer and producer at Noggin
Twitter:  @maryethurman
Insta:  @mthurmanart

Read more about Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079833/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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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. Topics of discussion include the power of answering machines, our favorite quotable lines from the movie, and why peace on earth, good will toward men is out of US jurisdiction.

Guest host: Jennifer Dasal, creator and host of the ArtCurious podcast
Twitter: @artcuriouspod
Insta: @artcuriouspod

Read more about The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) at:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)

Our theme music: Still Room on the Night Train by Ketsa feat. Soularflair

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