Co-host of the Dare Daniel and Canon Fodder podcasts and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle.
Upside Down (2013; Juan Solanas) GRADE: C- By Daniel Barnes *NOTE: This is the spec review that I wrote when I applied to become the Sacramento News & Review film critic in July 2013. It never appeared in any form until now. Look for my list of the Top […]
Generation Wealth (2018; Lauren Greenfield) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, July 27, at the Landmark Clay in San Francisco, the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley and the Regency Cinemas 6 in San Rafael. The Queen of Versailles director and long-time documenter of conspicuous consumption Greenfield creates her […]
In this pint-sized mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Daniel and Corky get into character to review Nancy Walker’s 1980 musical epic Can’t Stop the Music, a Village People origin story co-starring Steve Guttenberg and Valerie Perrine. The film that coke-snortingly assumed the already-deceased disco craze would never die, Can’t […]
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The Dark Tower (2017; Nikolaj Arcel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 11 “Have a great apocalypse.” In this Grudge Match episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Daniel and Corky go toe-to-toe over Nikolaj’s Arcel’s The Dark Tower, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Just as The Dark Tower books link together Stephen King’s various […]
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On this finger-food mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, we preview our upcoming review of Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower, starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. Still not sleeping nights following their traumatic experience with Theodore Rex, Daniel and Corky embrace the darkness by choosing their favorite (and least favorite) […]
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Theodore Rex (1995; Jonathan R. Betuel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 10 “This is where the nightmare reaches its horrifying crescendo.” On this shellshocked episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, esteemed dinosaurologist Daniel Barnes and “bodacious cretaceous” Corky McDonnell review Jonathan R. Beteul’s disastrous 1995 buddy-cop-mystery Theodore Rex, starring Whoopi […]
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