Spookies 1986

Dare Daniel – “Spookies”

Spookies – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 91 “Look at me! I’m Duke the horny ghost.” Beloved cock-caster Daniel Barnes and accomplished John Jay impersonator Corky McDonnell devour the 1980s horror smorgasbord of Spookies. It’s overstuffed and pointlessly convoluted in a good way, a go-for-broke horror buffet that offers […]

Deadly Attraction (aka 365 Days)

Dare Daniel – “Deadly Attraction”

Deadly Attraction – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 90 “I can’t believe this is happening!” Recorded live from a Red Lobster parking lot, Daniel and Corky review the immoral moralizing of Menetie T. Ejeye’s Deadly Attraction. A deranged take on the Oedipal myth, Deadly Attraction stars Matt O’Neil as Mark, the world’s worst […]

Paula Beer in Undine

“Undine” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Undine (2021; Christian Petzold) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select cinemas and on VOD services. “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you.” The mildly inscrutable Undine is my third Petzold experience, following the similarly admirable yet underwhelming Phoenix and Transit. However, it’s the first time I […]

Big Money Hustlas Insane Clown Posse

Dare Daniel – “Big Money Hustlas”

Big Money Hustlas – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 89 “Now there’s an Oscar waiting to happen.” Daniel “Lemon Meringue Pie-Ass” Barnes and Harry Cox fanboy Corky McDonnell go horrorcore with their review of Big Money Hustlas. Insane Clown Posse members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope star as Black […]

Mads Mikkelsen in Riders of Justice

“Riders of Justice” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Riders of Justice (2021; Anders Thomas Jensen) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select cinemas and on VOD services. Mikkelsen Goes Mads-eval Riders of Justice is revenge therapy, Danish style, as Mads Mikkelsen goes Mads-eval on the asses of the white supremacists who may have killed his […]

Jessica Chastain in Ava

Dare Daniel – “Ava” (2020)

Ava (2020) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 88 “This is business.” Derek and the Dominos cover band frontman Corky McDonnell and comedy understander Daniel Barnes confront Management with their review of the dreadful Ava. Jessica Chastain stars as the titular palindrome, a sensitive hitwoman confronting her tortured past. […]