In this microscopic mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell prepare their pleasure centers for the horrifying hijinx of Allan Arkush’s 1981 misfire Heartbeeps, starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as malfunctioning robots who fall in love. Great American patriot Daniel also revisits the review […]
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Revolution (1985; Hugh Hudson) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 15 “This is the medical tent of the Revolutionary War: This movie’s chopped to pieces, it’s ugly, it will make you scream, you’ll want to look away several times and you might catch sepsis.” Redcoat haters and rope factory co-workers […]
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On this thumbnail mini-episode, Daniel and Corky prepare for next week’s review of the 1985 box office bomb Revolution by getting into the character of an anachronistic 18th-century Scottish-American fur trapper. The hosts also revisit their previous review of Renaissance Man by contemplating “Life in the Streets” from the p.o.v. of a […]
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Danny Collins (2015; Dan Fogelman) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes “Doing Al Pacino” It feels as though Al Pacino has been “doing Al Pacino” in movies ever since he won the Oscar for 1992’s Scent of a Woman, where he played the blind, brash, brazenly offensive Lieutenant Colonel […]
