A Christmas Story 2 (2012; Brian Levant) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 29 “Not again!” Hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell head to the front lines of the War on Christmas to review Brian Levant’s straight-to-VOD atrocity A Christmas Story 2, a holiday-themed pit of despair that serves as […]
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Cutthroat Island (1995; Renny Harlin) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 28 “Bad dog!” On this explosive episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, scurvy dogs Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell hang Renny Harlin’s inept 1995 action movie Cutthroat Island from the critical yardarm. A notorious box office bomb that’s even worse […]
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By Daniel Barnes This is the ballot that I submitted for this year’s San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards. It should be noted that Madeline’s Madeline was nominated for our Special Citation Award, so I left it out of consideration for other awards. I also did not consider Mandy, which I […]
“It’s turkey time…gobble gobble.” In this week’s muscular mini-episode, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell preview next week’s review of Renny Harlin’s Cutthroat Island, a pirate movie more rancid than an expired bucket of Long John Silver’s coleslaw. After briefly revisiting their review of the hate-filled action comedy Collision Course, the […]
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The Monuments Men (2014; George Clooney) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 26 “This movie is proselytizing in the most shallow and empty way–it’s a movie of other movies.” Hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell wade into the moral cesspool known as Hollywood for their review of George Clooney’s pious, […]
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Monrovia, Indiana (2018; Frederick Wiseman) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, November 9, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Rialto Elmwood in Berkeley. Living legend Frederick Wiseman (In Jackson Heights; Ex Libris) brings his democratic approach to documentaries to the heart of Trump America in Monrovia, […]
