Blake Rayne in The Identical

Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 2.5

On this action-packed Dare Daniel mini-episode, Daniel and Corky preview next week’s review of Bright, and they offer some closing thoughts on their previous reviews of Grudge Match and The Identical. The hosts also discuss the acting career of Mark S. Allen, probe Corky’s sordid history with Joe Carnahan […]

“Godard mon Amour” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Godard mon Amour (2018; Michael Hazanavicius) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, April 27, at the Landmark Embarcadero in San Francisco. Talk about Contempt! Academy Award-winning director Michael Hazanavicius (that looks wrong, but this is our world now, deal with it) delivers this annoyingly whimsical biopic about the relationship […]

Dare Daniel – “The Identical”

The Identical (2014; Dustin Marcellino) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 2 Is it an Elvis movie or a Jesus movie (or a dessert topping or a floor wax)?  On this episode of Dare Daniel, film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell try to make pompadoured heads or […]

“The Endless” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

The Endless (2018; Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, April 20, at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission in San Francisco and the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley. Another super-intriguing, shoegazing, almost-there slice of genre revision from the directors of Spring.  Directing partners Justin Benson […]

“Ismael’s Ghosts” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

Ismael’s Ghosts (2018; Arnaud Desplechin) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, April 20, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Lark Theater in Larkspur. When I reviewed Arnaud Desplechin’s lovely My Golden Days in April 2016, I made the somewhat embarrassing admission that it was […]

Dare Daniel – “Grudge Match”

Grudge Match (2013; Peter Segal) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 1 In Round 1 of the Dare Daniel podcast, fierce rivals Daniel and Corky trade punches on Peter Segal’s Grudge Match, starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro as shells of their former selves.  Daniel and Corky go the distance […]