Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2019; Bi Gan) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, May 3, at the Landmark Embarcadero in San Francisco and the Landmark California in Berkeley. “Tedious Wonderland” “A watch is a symbol of eternity. And it’s broken.” Dreams, memories and hallucinations get stacked […]
Transit (2019; Christian Petzold) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, May 3, at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. “Thoughtful Yet Glacial” German director Christian Petzold follows up his 2015 critical darling Phoenix with another thoughtful yet glacial melodrama that flits around the margins of World War II. Transit is […]
Sunset (2019; László Nemes) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, April 26, at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. Or: The Grand Budapest Hell. Nemes follows up his much-lauded debut film Son of Saul with this disturbing mystery set in pre-World War I Budapest. Of course, instead of the melancholy comedy […]
Assassins (1995; Richard Donner) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 37 “We got nada, zilch, zip, zero, dry hump.” On this jasmine perfume-obsessed episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, quirky-ass hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review the quirky-ass hitmen of Richard Donner’s 1995 snoozer Assassins. A hilariously pretentious attempt […]
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Bio-Dome (1996; Jason Bloom) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 36 “If you had feral children, put them in bowling shirts, injected them with methamphetamines, this is what you would get. Only less restrained than that.” In this Earth Day-themed episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Gen-X roadkill on […]
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3 Faces (2019; Jafar Panahi) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, March 29, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. 3 Faces is the fourth feature film from Iranian writer-director Jafar Panahi since 2010, the year that the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced him to house arrest and imposed […]
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Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell host the Dare Daniel podcast. Daniel and Corky do your dirty work by watching the worst movies you can imagine, then reviewing them in excruciating detail. Check out the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
