Co-host of the Dare Daniel and Canon Fodder podcasts and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle.
Renaissance Man (1994; Penny Marshall) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 14 “I’ve never taught before…and you’ve never thought before!” Despite “struggling in the brain department,” Double D’s Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell scale Chekhov’s Victory Tower to review Penny Marshall’s career-killing 1994 military comedy Renaissance Man, starring the beloved comedy […]
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In this Lilliputian mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, children of the 1980s Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell preview next week’s review of Penny Marshall’s 1994 dud Renaissance Man, starring the hilarious comedy duo of Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines. After piling more scorn on the putrid Collateral Beauty, […]
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Collateral Beauty (2016; David Frankel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 13 “Shed your skin.” Abstract concepts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell struggle to find any beauty, collateral or otherwise, in David Frankel’s 2016 “catastro-fuck of the shittiest order.” Despite a cast that includes six former Oscar nominees (and two […]
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Although still unable to stop the music that is slowly driving them insane, Corky and Daniel revisit their review of Nancy Walker’s outrageously energetic Village People musical Can’t Stop the Music. The hosts also look ahead to next week’s review of the “batshit crazy” Collateral Beauty, starring Will Smith, Edward […]
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By Daniel Barnes I have been contributing reviews, feature articles, best-of lists, columns and more to the Sacramento News & Review since 2000. However, I did not graduate to the main review of the Film page until Summer 2013. When I learned that there was an opening for […]
Can’t Stop the Music (1980; Nancy Walker) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 12 “Oh boy! One hot night coming up!” On this crotch-bulging episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Saddle Tramps go-go boys Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review Nancy Walker’s coked-up 1980 Village People origin story Can’t Stop the […]
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