By Daniel Barnes After many years of writing about movies for online and print publications, 2019 challenged me to remain a film critic. The Sacramento News & Review dropped movie reviews from the paper in early January. Even if the SN&R kept me around, the freelance limits of […]
Inferno (2016; Ron Howard) — Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 46 “You have three explainers in one room together. Who’s the alpha explainer?” Farraday pointer superfans Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell don their Dante deathmasks to review Ron Howard’s pointless puzzle movie Inferno. This 2016 sequel finds Howard the […]
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Angels & Demons (2009; Ron Howard) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 45 “This movie makes no sense, the logistics make no sense, and when you find out the reveal, it makes less sense.” Synchronize your ticking clocks for this shifty-eyed episode of the Dare Daniel podcast. Suspiciously good […]
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The Nightingale (2019; Jennifer Kent) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, August 9, at the Landmark Embarcadero in San Francisco, Piedmont in Oakland and the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Jennifer Kent follows up the psychological horror of her 2014 breakthrough The Babadook with a […]
Pilgrimages – Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami festival By Daniel Barnes *Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami plays at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on 8/3, 8/11 and 8/17. Visit the Roxie website for a complete list of showtimes. Influential Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami passed away in 2016, leaving behind […]
Sword of Trust (2019; Lynn Shelton) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes Opens on Friday, July 19, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Sword of Trust is the ninth feature from Ohio-born, Seattle-raised filmmaker Lynn Shelton. However, it’s only my second experience […]
