About Daniel Barnes

Daniel Barnes is a Sacramento-based film critic, journalist, copywriter and podcaster.  A member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle since 2014, Daniel is also the creator and co-host of the Dare Daniel, Canon Fodder and Single Take podcasts.  He lives in Sacramento with his wife, Darcey.

His work has appeared in Sacramento News & Review, Comstock’s Magazine, Sacramento Bee, East Bay Express, Colorado Springs Independent, San Antonio Current, Shepherd’s Express (Milwaukee), Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other print and digital publications across the country.

Daniel enjoys grilled meats, great coffee, better cocktails, old movies, classic funk and soul music, sports, long walks, literature, cats, dogs and long, pointless lists.

Daniel Barnes Bio

Hometown? Sacramento, CA (Light the Beam!)

Favorite Directors? John Ford; Howard Hawks; Jean Renoir; Stanley Kubrick; Yasujiro Ozu; Vincente Minnelli; Sam Fuller; Kenji Mizoguchi; Woody Allen; Alfred Hitchcock; Martin Scorsese; Francis Ford Coppola; Paul Thomas Anderson; Robert Altman; Billy Wilder; Brian De Palma; Max Ophüls; Charlie Chaplin; Quentin Tarantino; Sergio Leone; Luis Buñuel; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Orson Welles; Nicholas Ray; Paul Verhoeven; Josef von Sternberg; Seijun Suzuki; Masahiro Shinoda; Fritz Lang; Robert Bresson; and too many more to name.

Favorite Dare Daniel episode? Fifty Shades trilogy

Best film reviewed on Dare Daniel? Sleepaway Camp 

Worst film reviewed on Dare Daniel? Ultraviolet

Read more of Daniel Barnes’ reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes and listen to Daniel on the Dare Daniel, Canon Fodder & Single Take podcasts.