Co-host of the Dare Daniel and Canon Fodder podcasts and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle.
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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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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