About Daniel Barnes
Daniel Barnes is a Sacramento-based film critic, writer, SEO, content manager 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 Podcast. He lives in Sacramento with his wife, Darcey Self, the associate creative director at Runyon Saltzman Inc.
His work has appeared in Sacramento News & Review, Comstock’s Magazine, Sacramento Bee, East Bay Express, Colorado Springs Independent, Inside Publications, San Antonio Current, Shepherd’s Express (Milwaukee), The Argonaut (Los Angeles), and many other publications across the country.
Daniel also enjoys grilled meats, great coffee, craft beer and spirits, old movies, classic rock and soul music, basketball, baseball, bicycles, cats, dogs, and pointless lists.
Daniel Barnes Bio
Hometown? Sacramento, CA
Favorite Directors? John Ford; Howard Hawks; 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; Joseph von Sternberg; Seijun Suzuki; Masahiro Shinoda; Fritz Lang; Robert Bresson; and too many more to name.
Who is your favorite actor? Joaquin Phoenix living; James Stewart all-time
Who is your favorite actress? Jennifer Jason Leigh living; Barbara Stanwyck all-time
Favorite Dare Daniel episode? Fifty Shades trilogy
Best film reviewed on the show? Sleepaway Camp
Worst film reviewed on the show? Ultraviolet
Favorite thing to do in Sacramento? Drink cocktails and barbeque in the backyard with my wife and our dog, Spud.
