Category: Movie Podcasts

Nicolas Cage as Acid Yellow in Sonny (2002).

Dare Daniel: Cage Match – “Sonny” (2002)

Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 2 Sonny (2002; Dir.: Nicolas Cage) – Episode 125 “Now I know why Mother calls you ‘a natural born whore.’” Trained pod-stitutes Daniel and Corky continue their Cage Match series by reviewing Cage’s only directorial effort. Sonny is highlighted by a wildly […]

Nicolas Cage in a phone booth wearing fake fangs in Vampire's Kiss (1988).

Dare Daniel: Cage Match – “Vampire’s Kiss”

Dare Daniel: Cage Match Vampire’s Kiss (1989; Dir.: Robert Bierman) – Episode 124 “The tortures of the damned!” Your boys are back! Daniel and Corky kick off their Cage Match series of Nicolas Cage movies by reviewing the Nouveau Shamanic maestro as a cockroach-chugging would-be bloodsucker in the Easton […]

Oppenheimer

Daniel Reviews “Oppenheimer”

Oppenheimer (2023; Christopher Nolan) Rating: Bump It *Now playing everywhere. In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s new three-hour biopic Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb. Daniel recalls his The Two Popes-esque encounter with Nolan, praises Murphy’s […]

Nicolas Cage as Superman

Dare Daniel: Cage Match Introduction

Dare Daniel Season 2/Episode 0 – Dare Daniel: Cage Match mini-episode “Their grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids are gonna think this show is the bee’s knees!” Dinosaur trafficker Daniel and Holy Grail enthusiast Corky switch faces to preview their upcoming season, Dare Daniel: Cage Match. A deep dive into the terrifying […]

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Two of a Kind

Dare Daniel – “Two of a Kind”

Two of a Kind – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 123 “It’s a movie forgotten by time, and I look forward to forgetting it myself.” Kooky inventor Daniel Barnes and flirty bank teller Corky McDonnell get together to save the world from the abysmal nothing-burgerTwo of a Kind. Grease stars John […]

Dare Daniel – “The Exorcist III”

The Exorcist III – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 122 “It’s just a bunch of peas and anchovies.” Daniel and Corky do their shouty best to keep up with George C. Scott in William Peter Blatty’s so-underappreciated-it’s-almost-overappreciated The Exorcist III. Blatty crafts a shockingly effective slow creep that is […]