Madeline’s Madeline (2018; Josephine Decker) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, August 24, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Finally, something with some fucking guts! This is my first experience with the cinema of Josephine Decker (although I hear good things about Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast […]
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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Support the Girls (2018; Andrew Bujalski) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, August 24, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Coyote Ugly meets Clerks by way of Linklater and Lizzie Borden, as the put-upon manager and waitresses at a second-rate Hooter’s knockoff […]
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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Renaissance Man (1994; Penny Marshall) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 14 “I’ve never taught before…and you’ve never thought before!” Despite “struggling in the brain department,” Double D’s Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell scale Chekhov’s Victory Tower to review Penny Marshall’s career-killing 1994 military comedy Renaissance Man, starring the beloved comedy […]
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In this Lilliputian mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, children of the 1980s Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell preview next week’s review of Penny Marshall’s 1994 dud Renaissance Man, starring the hilarious comedy duo of Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines. After piling more scorn on the putrid Collateral Beauty, […]
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