Dare Daniel – “Fever Pitch”

Fever Pitch (2005; Bobby and Peter Farrelly) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 35 “IMDB was as uninterested in this movie as I was.” Boston sports antagonists Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell compile their laziest, most mismatched baseball metaphors to review Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy […]

Poster for the crime thriller "Dragged Across Concrete", starring Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson

“Dragged Across Concrete” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Dragged Across Concrete (2019; S. Craig Zahler) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Now playing at the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley. Here comes another muscular but lumbering hunk of wheezing masculinity from Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 auteur S. Craig Zahler.  This time, Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson star […]

“Babylon” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Babylon (1980; Franco Rosso) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. Released for the first time in the United States, Italian-born, English-raised director Franco Rosso’s Babylon follows the Jamaican-born, English-raised members of fictional sound system group Ital Lion. Fronted by the […]

Dare Daniel – “Leprechaun in the Hood”

Leprechaun in the Hood (2000; Rob Spera) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 34 “I think he’s fucking them to death!” Lepers in the hood Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell (aka the Milli Vanilli of Compton rap) travel to the end of a turd-colored rainbow to review the bargain basement […]

Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 33.5

“Hey, get these losers out.” Wachowski sister apologist Daniel Barnes and lost Elfman brother Corky McDonnell come to do no good in this week’s Dare Daniel podcast mini-episode. The hosts preview their upcoming review of the 2000 horror-comedy Leprechaun in the Hood, the fifth entry in the long-running […]

“Birds of Passage” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Birds of Passage (2019; Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, March 1, at the Opera Plaza 4 in San Francisco. Embrace of the Serpent director Guerra and first-timer Gallego deliver this strangely static but wholly unexpected and unusual gangster saga, purportedly “inspired by […]