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Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2025https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_DanielBestOf2025.mp3 Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2025 Quasi-disgraced pseudo-critic Daniel Barnes takes a solo excursion through the year in cinema to share his best and worst films of 2025. Daniel also discusses some of the awards contenders, blockbusters and bombs that did not make either of his lists. He also previews next week’s new Canon Fodder episode, in which Daniel and Corky review Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou. CLIPS & CLIPPINGS Daniel’s 2025 Ranked list on Letterboxd Daniel’s 2025 San Francisco Bay Area F...

2026-01-0636 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel Reviews “Die My Love” and “Predator: Badlands”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_BADLANDS-DIE-MY-LOVE.mp3 Die My Love (2025; Dir.: Lynne Ramsay) GRADE: C+ *Now playing in the San Francisco Bay Area and other select markets. IMDB Synopsis: “Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless.” Predator: Badlands (2025; Dir.: Dan Trachtenberg) GRADE: B- *Now playing everywhere. IMDB Synopsis: “A young Predator outcas...

2025-11-0615 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel Reviews “Blue Moon” & “It Was Just an Accident”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_BLUE-MOON-ACCIDENT.mp3 Blue Moon (2025; Dir.: Richard Linklater) GRADE: B- *Now playing at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. IMDB Synopsis: “Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of Oklahoma!” It Was Just an Accident (2025; Dir.: Jafar Panahi) GRADE: B+ *Now playing at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. IMDB Synopsis: “A small mishap triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems.” In this quest...

2025-10-2417 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel Reviews “Relay” and “Eden” (2025)https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_EDEN-RELAY.mp3 Eden (2025; Ron Howard) GRADE: B *Now playing. IMDB Synopsis: “Based on a factual account of a group of outsiders who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.” Relay (2025; David Mackenzie) GRADE: B- *Now playing. IMDB Synopsis: “A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his prot...

2025-08-2217 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel Reviews “The Final Reckoning”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoning-Daniel-Review-1.mp3 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025; Christopher McQuarrie) GRADE: B *Now playing everywhere. In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible film. Listen along as Daniel talks to himself about auteurs, McQu-auteurs, horny submarine crews and the unfortunate Spectre-ization of the franchise film-scape. Read more of Daniel’s reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes, and listen to Daniel on the Dare Daniel & Canon Fodder podcasts. The post Daniel Reviews “The Final Rec...

2025-05-2216 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel Reviews “The Final Reckoning” https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoning-Daniel-Review.mp3 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025; Christopher McQuarrie) GRADE: B *Now playing everywhere. “This Reckoning feels about as final as a KISS farewell tour.” In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible film. Listen along as Daniel talks to himself about auteurs and McQu-auteurs, horny submarine crews, and the unfortunate Spectre-ization of the franchise filmscape. Read more of Daniel’s reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes, and listen to Daniel on the D...

2025-05-2216 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_DanielBestOf2024.mp3 Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024 Disgraced pseudo-film critic Daniel Barnes takes a solo excursion to share his picks for the best and worst films of 2024. He also discusses some of the awards contenders that did not make either list, and previews next week’s review of India Song. CLIPS & CLIPPINGS Daniel’s 2024 Ranked list on Letterboxd Daniel’s San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards ballot NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE India Song (1975; Dir.: Marguerite Duras) ...

2025-01-1431 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Daniel Reviews “Oppenheimer”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Daniel.mp3 Oppenheimer (2023; Christopher Nolan) Rating: Bump It *Now playing everywhere. In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s new three-hour biopic Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb. Daniel recalls his The Two Popes-esque encounter with Nolan, praises Murphy’s haunted and haunting lead performance, and delves into the film’s many paradoxes. If nothing else, Oppenheimer confirms Nolan’s status as the ultimate “chalkboard director.” He inevitably gives us scenes in which someone...

2023-07-2122 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Two of a Kind”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/DareDanielE123S01.mp3 Two of a Kind – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 123 “It’s a movie forgotten by time, and I look forward to forgetting it myself.” Kooky inventor Daniel Barnes and flirty bank teller Corky McDonnell get together to save the world from the abysmal nothing-burgerTwo of a Kind. Grease stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (RIP) unfortunately reunite for this chaotic and monotonous mix of fluffy romance and apocalyptic comedy. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss armoire obsessions, edible sunglasses, Kafkaesque mistrials and skin-crawling sex scenes. TWO...

2022-11-1557 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Princess Switch”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DareDanielE102S01.mp3 The Princess Switch – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 102 “This movie is about cramming Christmas into every nook and cranny of your senses.” Snow janitor Daniel Barnes and Christmas prince Corky McDonnell spend a holiday in Belgravia with Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Switch. A movie designed to be half-watched while decorating Christmas trees or scrolling through Instagram feeds, The Princess Switch is made half-watchable by Hudgens alone. It’s a film made by and for algorithms in which every character speaks the language of exposition. Elsewhe...

2021-12-1449 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Poison Rose”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DareDanielE101S01.mp3 The Poison Rose – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 101 “What manner of sorcery is this?” Disgraced ex-football stars Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell reluctantly return to Galveston to review John Travolta in The Poison Rose. An onslaught of private detective cliches crudely formed into a movie-like shape, The Poison Rose is filled with twists but bereft of surprises. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss suspicious pills, hotshot hotheads and meth lab security flaws. THE POISON ROSE FACTS AND FIGURES This week’s themed...

2021-11-301h 02

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Skullduggery”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DareDanielE099S01.mp3 Skullduggery – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 99 “Wanna watch me suck a Greyhound bus through a straw?” Trottelville Junior College talent show rejects Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell invoke the Spirit of Evil to review Skullduggery. Pointless beyond comprehension, Skullduggery concerns a malicious game within a game within a muddy and witless non-horror movie. It’s just a series of nonsensical things happening in the most uncompelling manner possible. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss sacred tigers, blood puzzles, Dial-a-Guffaw phone lines and Toronto Argonauts draft picks.

2021-10-261h 01

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Old Fashioned”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DareDanielE097S01.mp3 Old Fashioned – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 97 “We’re floating round and round and upside down/Searching for the things our parents found.” Small-town shock jock Daniel Barnes and song parodist Corky McDonnell slog through the torturous theory-mongering of Rik Swaltzwelder’s Old Fashioned. Director-writer-producer Swartzwelder stars as Clay, an intensely unlikeable, old-fashioned old fascist with serious serial killer vibes. Despite its holier-than-thou position, Old Fashioned fetishizes a toxic relationship with as much zeal as Fifty Shades of Grey or 365 Days. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss so...

2021-09-281h 16

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Cosmic Sin”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DareDanielE096S01.mp3 Cosmic Sin – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 96 “Being sucked off by the universe doesn’t sound so bad.” Net-positive Corky McDonnell and net-negative Daniel Barnes commit a cosmic sin by reviewing Bruce Willis in Cosmic Sin. This brain-dead space opera stars Willis as a fading star who refuses to do second takes or give a fart. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Q-bombs, robot bartenders, Costas Mandylor-ians and blood generals. THIS WEEK’S DARE Pet Sematary II (Professor Ryan L. Terry) COS...

2021-09-141h 03

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “From Justin to Kelly”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DareDanielE095S01.mp3 From Justin to Kelly – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 95 “Oh man, I rock!” Pennsylvania Posse alpha douches Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell follow up their review of Dancin’: It’s On! by reviewing Singin’: It’s On!. Also known as From Justin to Kelly, the film stars American Idol contestants Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson as reality show hostages grimly going through the motions of a bland and brainless Spring Break musical. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss tie skirts, bandanna shirts, and other garments not used for thei...

2021-08-3155 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Dancin’: It’s On!”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DareDanielE094S01.mp3 Dancin’: It’s On! – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 94 “This is basically Skim Milk: The Motion Picture.” Hit Parade Hotel bellboys Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell turn the dancin’ off long enough to review Dancin’: It’s On!. This hilariously inept Panama City Beach travelogue has good dancin’ but bad everythin’ else. The central love story pairs privileged white monster Jen and rage-dancin’ human toilet Ken, dancin’-obsessed youngsters trainin’ for the Big Dance Contest. It stars actors who can dance but not act, with a director who can dance but...

2021-08-171h 28

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Last Man”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DareDanielE093S01.mp3 The Last Man – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 93 “Much like Harvey Keitel, I’ll be slumming and disinterested this whole way through.” Doomsday prepper Daniel Barnes and apocalyptic lifestyle manual procurer Corky McDonnell prepare for the final storm by watching Hayden Christensen sleepwalk through The Last Man. A dreary, shapeless, grey-green, post-apocalyptic incel sex fantasy, The Last Man is a chore from start to finish. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss fake beard budgets, self-penned survival guides, not-Jake Busey and handbooks vs. mind-books. NEW DARES

2021-07-2050 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Speed 2: Cruise Control”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DareDanielE092S01.mp3 Speed 2: Cruise Control – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 92 “Zero knots.” In this week’s episode, Seabourn Legend mainstage mainstays Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell excoriate Speed 2: Cruise Control “with an almost sensual pleasure.” Sandra Bullock and not-Keanu star in this lazy and pointless rehash/desecration of Speed that makes the perfectly perfunctory original look like The Wages of Fear. Instead of action or suspense, Cruise Control delivers dumb comedy riddled with continuity errors and a complete lack of spatial-temporal logic. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss exploding...

2021-07-061h 17

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Spookies”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/DareDanielE091S01.mp3 Spookies – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 91 “Look at me! I’m Duke the horny ghost.” Beloved cock-caster Daniel Barnes and accomplished John Jay impersonator Corky McDonnell devour the 1980s horror smorgasbord of Spookies. It’s overstuffed and pointlessly convoluted in a good way, a go-for-broke horror buffet that offers some surprisingly good monster effects and some unsurprisingly abysmal acting and writing. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss comedy relief puppets, werecats, and Connecticut coke party casual. NEW DARE Speed 2: Cruise Control (Darcey Self...

2021-06-221h 01

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Ava” (2020)https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/DareDanielE088S01.mp3 Ava (2020) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 88 “This is business.” Derek and the Dominos cover band frontman Corky McDonnell and comedy understander Daniel Barnes confront Management with their review of the dreadful Ava. Jessica Chastain stars as the titular palindrome, a sensitive hitwoman confronting her tortured past. The film is vacuous and unoriginal without any real style or point-of-view, while a strong ensemble cast makes no effort. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss port-a-potty church casino raves, TikTok assassinations and Joan Chen freak trains. NEW DA...

2021-05-1156 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Foodfight!”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DareDanielE084S01.mp3 Foodfight! – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 84 “My friends come out to creep.” Marketropolis stock boys Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell use their dog-tective skills to investigate the rancid animated feature Foodfight!. With its horrifying, half-finished visuals and an ensemble cast of sex predator corporate mascots, Foodfight! provides a steady stream of nightmare fuel. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss cartoon elephant torture, gay disco bats, Cinnamon Sleuth cereal and turd globs. NEW DARE Godzilla (1998) (Dean Longenecker) FOODFIGHT! FACTS...

2021-03-161h 07

World of Procurement The World of Procurement in 2020What a Year it has been in 2020...in a good way. This episode is a solo episode with Daniel Barnes, as he reflects back on 2020 and the impact of World of Procurement. His kids also make a sneaky appearance with the odd cry of anguish.World of Procurement was establish in April 2020. Since then, it has gone on to release a Podcast that has hit 9k+ listens, had over 250k views of content on LinkedIn and thousands of views of its written content at www.worldofprocurement.co.uk.In this episode, Daniel covers off some...

2020-12-3116 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Holiday Engagement”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DareDanielE079S01.mp3 Holiday Engagement – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 79 “Everyone’s losing their shit about Gav.” The Park Post Herald star reporters Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell get the scoop on Hallmark Channel Christmas with help from Gav of Films on Trial. Holiday Engagement pairs witless “journalist” Hillary with unemployed sign-spinner David in the most pointless holiday ruse possible. Comedy professionals like Shelley Long and Sam McMurray are powerless against the film’s flat tone and bland presentation. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss sand enthusiasts, ankle collections, sile...

2020-12-221h 09

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Elvira Mistress of the Dark”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DareDanielE075S01.mp3 Elvira, Mistress of the Dark – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 75 “You get it, girlfriend!” Pulchritude purveyor Corky McDonnell and soup monster Daniel Barnes conclude Scare Daniel 2020 with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. This one-note vehicle sees the macabre sexpot travel to Small Town USA to collect an inheritance and freak out the squares. Elvira throws ambiguity and subtlety out the window in favor of a barrage of unfunny boob jokes. Meanwhile, Daniel and Corky discuss farting gas station attendants, horndog teens, game show dream sequences...

2020-10-2744 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Beyond the Seventh Door”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DareDanielE072S01.mp3 Beyond the Seventh Door – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 72 “The holes, Wendy! Tell me about the holes!” Schmeed-fluencers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell don their Winnepeg tuxedos to review the baffling Canux-ploitation classic, Beyond the Seventh Door. Largely set in a hallway, Beyond the Seventh Door concerns an ex-con and his ex-girlfriend hunting for “the hidden treasures of Lord Breston.” However, the real torture comes from watching two complete nitwits try to solve non-puzzles for 78 minutes. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss lace headbands, burglar tool belts, an...

2020-09-151h 00

World of Procurement Shipz and Women in Supply Chain with Sarah Barnes-HumphreySarah Barnes-HumphreySarah Barnes-Humphrey, the CEO of SHIPZ and Founder/Host of one of the biggest Supply Chain Podcasts and Content Channels, Let’s Talk Supply Chain. Sarah is a Supply Chain legend with twenty or so years experience in this space.Sarah makes incredible content in the Supply Chain space and to add to this, she has just launched her new venture, SHIPZ. SHIPZ, as Sarah explains, is kinda like the eBay of Shipping.We dive into what SHIPZ is and what it does as well as some insights into the World of...

2020-09-0923 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Think Big”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DareDanielE070S01.mp3 Think Big – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 70 “Chicken bone every time!” No doubt about it: Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell go pec-to-pec with the Barbarian Brothers on this week’s iron-pumping episode. The podcast hosts review bodybuilding twin brothers Peter and David Paul in the beyond bargain-basement comedy Think Big. Boasting a title song written and rapped by the Barbarian Brothers, Think Big offers all the generic entertainment you would expect from a film produced by a company named Motion Picture and distributed by a company...

2020-08-1859 min

World of Procurement Contract Management Masterclass for Beginners with Daniel BarnesJoin our Contract Management Masterclass for Beginners Course - Half Price £25 - https://www.udemy.com/course/contract-management-for-beginners/?couponCode=AF42EA15411F206E3584Contract Management is often overlooked and it’s normally due to a lack of capability within the Business or a lack of resources who can undertake that kind of work. Yet, it’s integral to delivering the value and savings that have been secured throughout the sourcing stage of the Procurement process.In this episode we are going to cover a few elements: What Contract Management is; The benefits of Contr...

2020-07-0318 min

World of Procurement What’s the World of Procurement Podcast all about?A short 4 minute insight by the Host, Daniel Barnes on what this Podcast is all about. The WoP Podcast is going to talk about all things Procurement, Supply Chain and Commercial Contract Management. We let the Guest do the talking to provide a lot value with episodes going live each week.

2020-04-2304 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The VelociPastor”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DareDanielE058S01.mp3 The VelociPastor – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 58 “Self-consciously shitty is still shitty.” Even the director of The VelociPastor believes that it would be a fool’s errand to find meaning in the film. Thankfully, we’ve got the two fools for the job. Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell dig deep into The VelociPastor, a genre sendup inspired by autocorrect. The VelociPastor stars Greg Cohan as a priest who transforms into a cheap-looking dinosaur. Meanwhile, appealing newcomer Alyssa Kempinski plays Carol, a prostitute wi...

2020-03-031h 03

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel Podcast: All Dares Episode 2https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DareDanielAllDares02S01.mp3 Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 2 “Gold chains for all!” Super-producer Johnny Flores is gone, but the show goes on. On this very special episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell read a bumper crop of bad movie dares. Daniel and Corky also offer their thoughts on the best and worst films of 2019. Finally, they look back at some recent episodes, while also looking ahead to 2020. FACTS AND FIGURES This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Hazy Life NE...

2020-02-041h 00

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “God’s Not Dead 2”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DareDanielE056S01.mp3 God’s Not Dead 2 – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 56 “You could definitely say that God’s Not Dead feeds the persecution complex of evangelical Christians. God’s Not Dead 2 takes that complex to Golden Corral.” Left coast elitist Daniel Barnes and evil ACLU lawyer Corky McDonnell take away the hope with their review of Harold Cronk’s berserkly neurotic God’s Not Dead 2. The 2016 sequel delivers more of that old Cronk magic, amping up both the star power and the paranoid Christian hysteria. God’s Not Dead 2 returns man...

2020-01-211h 09

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “God’s Not Dead” (2014)https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DareDanielE039rerunS01.mp3 God’s Not Dead (2014) – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun 2 “Is God dead? Better listen to the episode and find out.” It’s a New Year, but an old episode. Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell are still recovering from the holidays, so they posted this rerun of Dare Daniel’s most popular episode of 2019. Back in May, Daniel and Corky reviewed God’s Not Dead (2014), the inspiring story of a baby-faced fascist who slaughters through atheist strawmen like an evangelical John Wick. The hosts will be back in two we...

2020-01-071h 03

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Saving Christmas”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DareDanielE055S01.mp3 Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas (2014; Darren Doane) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 55 “It’s not putting the Christ back in Christmas, it’s putting the ka-ching back in Christmas.” Just in time to save your Christmas, faith-based hip-hop dance crew members Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell celebrate Bible-sanctioned materialism with the smirking evangelicals of Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas. The film wants to honor “the reason for the season,” but the real miracle is that this chintzy home movie ever made it into theaters. From the ska-punk ve...

2019-12-2454 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Battlefield Earth”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DareDanielE053S01.mp3 Battlefield Earth (2000; Roger Christian) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 53 “Holy amazing shit, John Travolta.” Travolt-ember just keeps on Travolt-embering on the Dare Daniel podcast. This week, man-animal rights activist Daniel Barnes and arrogant greener Corky Goodboy McDonnell finally get leverage over you with their review of Battlefield Earth. John Travolta overacts for the ages as dreadlocked dandy-fop Terl, “the wickedest nine-foot alien you’ve ever seen in your life.” Winner of three Worst Picture Razzies somehow, Battlefield Earth is easily the ugliest and sloppiest film ever rele...

2019-11-261h 11

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Fanatic”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DareDanielE052S01.mp3 The Fanatic (2019; Fred Durst) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 52 “He’s full of doo-doo!” It’s Travolt-ember this month on the Dare Daniel podcast, although we’re still writing Cork-tober on all our checks. This week, incompetent street performer Daniel Barnes and hardcore illusionist Corky McDonnell parse the poppycock of The Fanatic. A “psychological thriller” directed by former Limp Bizkit frontman Durst, The Fanatic is a paranoid revenge fantasy for talentless elitists. Star John Travolta reaches a new career-low as Moose, a dangerously obsessive fan of movie star Hu...

2019-11-1259 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DareDanielE051S01.mp3 Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987; Lee Harry) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 51 “Garbage day!” We’re breaking out the Christmas decorations early this year on the Dare Daniel podcast. For the fourth and final film of Scare Daniel 2019, eyebrow contortionist Corky McDonnell and pencil neck Daniel Barnes review the hilariously entertaining Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2. Barely an original film directed by a team of editors, SNDNP2 lifts nearly 30 minutes of footage from the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. It plays like an extended Family Ties...

2019-10-291h 03

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Vampire Academy”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DareDanielE049S01-1.mp3 Vampire Academy (2014; Mark Waters) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 49 “Bon appetit.” We’re throwing a princess party in the royal rec room this week on the Scare Daniel podcast. Shopping expedition expert Daniel Barnes and Joely Richardson fanboy Corky McDonnell get ready for the big Equinox Dance by watching Mark Waters’ dreadful Vampire Academy. Based on Richelle Mead’s popular series of young adult novels, Vampire Academy is one of the most confusing films we’ve ever tried to review. Set in a school that educat...

2019-10-151h 09

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Brainscan”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DareDanielE048S01.mp3 Brainscan (1994; John Flynn) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 48 “The interactive trip to hell is paved with good intentions.” Trickster gods Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell open Scare Daniel season by reviewing charisma black hole Edward Furlong in Brainscan. Furlong stars in Brainscan as Michael Brower, a disaffected, technology-obsessed teenager who gets tormented by an interactive CD-ROM. Frank Langella makes his third appearance on the podcast, video-phoning in his performance as a no-nonsense detective. Meanwhile, relative unknown T. Ryder Smith outacts them all as Trickster, a virtual...

2019-10-0850 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Warrior and the Sorceress”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DareDanielE047S01.mp3 The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984; John Broderick) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 47 “They’ve got a real “I used to fuck guys like you in prison” vibe.” On this week’s episode, Sword of Uhrah possessor Corky McDonnell and Daniel Barnes the Tyrant review David Carradine in the 1984 fantasy-adventure The Warrior and the Sorceress. The co-hosts take wise counsel from their Consigliguanas before discussing this dirt-cheap Yojimbo knockoff dressed up in Star Wars and Conan duds. One of several Roger Corman productions filmed in Argentina during th...

2019-09-2449 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Inferno”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DareDanielE046S01.mp3 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 hack in an artsy-fartsy-for-the-sake-of-artsy-fartsiness sort of mood. Meanwhile, Hanks returns as Massive Headwound Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon, who this time around suffers from amnesia. After watching Inferno, we should all be so lucky. Aptly named after hell, Inferno effect...

2019-09-1051 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Angels & Demons”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DareDanielE045S01.mp3 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 priest Daniel Barnes and Assistant to the Regional Pope Corky McDonnell review Tom Hanks as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in Angels & Demons. The even-trashier sequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons is another mirthless Catholic scavenger hunt from Ron Howar...

2019-08-2757 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Warcraft”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DareDanielE044S01.mp3 Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 44 – Warcraft: The Beginning (2016; Duncan Jones) “Everyone is constantly explaining things, and yet nothing makes any sense.” The Beginning is the end is the beginning this week on the Dare Daniel Podcast. Magic school dropouts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell travel to the Uncanny Valley to review Duncan Jones’ incomprehensible Warcraft. A film that only serves to set up the many sequels that will never get made, Warcraft is all ambition and no execution. It creates a world where motion-captured orcs feel l...

2019-08-1356 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Cool as Ice”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DareDanielE043S01.mp3 Cool as Ice (1991; David Kellogg) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 43 “He is devoid of personality, and he’s supposed to be the lead of a movie that people are drawn to. Why does anybody not find this man repellant?” Put on your Gaultier sunglasses and graffiti-tagged parachute pants for this special episode of the Dare Daniel podcast. Apprentice DJ Daniel Barnes and dance floor dry-humper Corky McDonnell review Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice. The lone star vehicle for this “preening, smirking void,” Cool as Ice is utterly fasci...

2019-07-301h 12

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel Podcast: All Dares Episode 1https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DareDanielAllDares01S01.mp3 Dare Daniel Podcast – The All Dares Episode “I need to share this pain with someone.” On this very special episode, heathen Daniel Barnes and Corky “Spoonman” McDonnell celebrate the loyal listeners of the Dare Daniel podcast. First, Daniel and Corky work through a bumper crop of bad movie dares. They read an assortment of dares from friends, colleagues, supporters and Russian strongmen, not to mention God. Next, the hosts induct the first four members of the Dare Daniel Hall of Fame. Finally, Dan...

2019-07-1652 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Beautician and the Beast”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DareDanielE042S01.mp3 The Beautician and the Beast (1997; Ken Kwapis) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 42 “Talk to the hand!” Long-suffering Slovitzian factory worker Daniel Barnes and “classy European” Corky McDonnell return to Sac City Brews to record their review of Ken Kwapis’ maliciously PG rom-com The Beautician and the Beast. The film stars Fran Drescher, who rehashes her The Nanny shtick to play spunky beautician Joy Miller. Through a mistaken identity scenario too stupid to contemplate, Joy gets whisked to an Eastern European hellhole called Slovitzia. There, Joy i...

2019-07-0251 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Mac and Me”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DareDanielE041S01.mp3 Mac and Me (1988; Stewart Raffill) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 41 “Hundreds dead and a city on fire as a dance party at McDonald’s spirals out of control.” On this product placement-heavy episode, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review the horrifying family film Mac and Me. Daniel and Corky recorded the show live at Sac City Brews in Sacramento, trying in vain to numb their senses to this disturbing E.T. ripoff. Mostly funded by McDonald’s, Mac and Me stars Jade Calegory as Eric, a wh...

2019-06-1854 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Ultraviolet”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DareDanielE040S01.mp3 Ultraviolet (2006; Kurt Wimmer) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 40 “It’s an assault on your eyes, on your intelligence, on your ears.” Sarcastic hæmophage Daniel Barnes and Vice-podcaster Corky McDonnell use their unique blend of gun-kata criticism to review Kurt Wimmer’s Ultraviolet. The film stars Milla Jovovich as a super-vampire who fights special effects in front of a green screen. With a visual aesthetic that recalls a 1998 screensaver and a script penned by Google Translate, the film is either admirably unwatchable, contemptuously unwatchable or Vice-unwat...

2019-06-0444 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “God’s Not Dead”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DareDanielE039S01.mp3 God’s Not Dead (2014; Harold Cronk) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 39 “You’re the pied piper of duck genocide, sir!” Hadleigh University alum Daniel Barnes and Kenny Dingler superfan Corky McDonnell get good and blasphemous on this week’s episode. Much like Job, Daniel and Corky suffer for your amusement, and the Dare Daniel podcast hosts certainly suffered this week. That’s because they reviewed Harold Cronk’s philosophical hell house, God’s Not Dead. This pious ensemble drama pits baby-faced fascist Josh (Shane Harper) against athei...

2019-05-211h 02

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Box”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DareDanielE038S01.mp3 The Box (2009; Richard Kelly) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 38 “Great suspense there, asshole.” On this week’s show, podcast hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell crawl up the wormhole of Richard Kelly’s 2009 mind-scrambler The Box. Based on a Richard Matheson story previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Box stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a highly successful yet inexplicably destitute married couple in 1970s Virginia. One day, a creepy burn victim played by Frank Langella presents the couple...

2019-05-0750 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Assassins”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DareDanielE037S01.mp3 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 at an existential hitman thriller, Assassins pits Sylvester Stallone’s morose mumbling against Antonio Banderas’ out-of-control mugging. Essentially a slow-witted-cat-and-overacting-mouse chase movie, Assassins stars Stallone and Banderas as rival hitmen gunning for the number one spot on the hitman ch...

2019-04-231h 05

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Bio-Dome”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DareDanielE036S01.mp3 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 the superhighway of progress Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review Jason Bloom’s environmentally unconscious comedy Bio-Dome. Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin star as Tucson junior college students Bud and Doyle, 30-year-old man-children accidentally sealed inside an experimental science lab. Bio...

2019-04-0951 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Fever Pitch”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DareDanielE035S01.mp3 Fever Pitch (2005; Bobby and Peter Farrelly) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 35 “IMDB was as uninterested in this movie as I was.” Boston sports antagonists Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell compile their laziest, most mismatched baseball metaphors to review Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy that swings for the fences but instead drops the ball. Jimmy Fallon stars as Ben, a man-child sports jerk whose all-encompassing obsession with the Boston Red Sox gets in the way of his relationship with career gal Linds...

2019-03-2647 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Leprechaun in the Hood”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DareDanielE034S01.mp3 Leprechaun in the Hood (2000; Rob Spera) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 34 “I think he’s fucking them to death!” Lepers in the hood Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell (aka the Milli Vanilli of Compton rap) travel to the end of a turd-colored rainbow to review the bargain basement 2000 horror comedy Leprechaun in the Hood. Proving that horror films don’t need to be good or even successful to spawn endless sequels, Leprechaun in the Hood marks Warwick Davis’ fifth appearance as the titular homicidal Irish faerie, w...

2019-03-1254 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 33.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DareDanielE033_halfS01.mp3 “Hey, get these losers out.” Wachowski sister apologist Daniel Barnes and lost Elfman brother Corky McDonnell come to do no good in this week’s Dare Daniel podcast mini-episode. The hosts preview their upcoming review of the 2000 horror-comedy Leprechaun in the Hood, the fifth entry in the long-running series starring Warwick Davis. Daniel and Corky also rehash their disagreement from last week’s review of Ishtar. However, they both agree that writer-director Elaine May was definitely ahead of her time. In honor of Elaine May...

2019-03-0523 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Ishtar”w https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DareDanielE033S01.mp3 Ishtar (1987; Elaine May) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 33 “Telling the truth can be dangerous business/Honest and popular don’t go hand in hand” Dare Daniel takes on another “bad movie” legend in this week’s episode. The inept and self-unaware podcasting duo of Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review Elaine May’s Ishtar, starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as the inept and self-unaware songwriting duo of Rogers and Clarke. A film long synonymous with box office bombs and out-of-touch Ho...

2019-02-2647 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 32.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DareDanielE032_halfS01.mp3 “You had me at Keith David, you lost me at David Keith.” Get your tease pajamas on for this one! Notorious teases Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell are in a mood to tantalize and titillate in this week’s Dare Daniel Podcast mini-episode. The hosts preview Elaine May’s legendary box office bomb Ishtar, starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as inept songwriters bumbling through the Middle East. Daniel and Corky also take a look back at their previous review of Heart Condition, which they both agree...

2019-02-1933 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Heart Condition”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DareDanielE032S01.mp3 Heart Condition (1990; James D. Parriott) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 32 “We’re about 15 to 20 minutes into the movie. We have seen Denzel and Bob Hoskins at various times hit women, abuse animals and commit hate crimes. These are the heroes of the film.” In a Dare Daniel Podcast episode that will haunt your ass forever, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review James D. Parriott’s 1990 supernatural race relations dramedy Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington. A casually racist murder-mystery (minus the mystery) that was rejected by...

2019-02-1244 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 31.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DareDanielE031_halfS01.mp3 “It’s time for you to get your big, fat, extra crispy bucket o’ chicken, two-liter Pepsi-Cola-drinking ass out of bed.” In this heartless mini-episode, podcast hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell prepare for next week’s review of Heart Condition, a film that joins Collision Course and Theodore Rex in the Dare Daniel Hall of Casually Racist Buddy Comedies. This 1990 oddity stars Bob Hoskins as a bigoted slob haunted by Denzel Washington, and it was dared to us by Gav at Films on Trial, the popular movie podcast/star chamber.

2019-02-0519 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Gotti”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DareDanielE031S01.mp3 Gotti (2018; Kevin Connolly) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 31 “Let’s get into this fucking travesty.” In this Family-friendly episode of the Dare Daniel Podcast, Mafia history buff Corky McDonnell and legitimate businessman Daniel Barnes take their whacks at Kevin Connolly’s 2018 critical punching bag biopic Gotti, starring John Travolta as the legendary New York mob boss. A love letter to the Gotti family that became an instant legend bad movie upon release, the film combines a half-dozen framing devices, nonsensical time jumps, real-life news reports, bullet point scenes...

2019-01-2939 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 30.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DareDanielE030_halfS01.mp3 “It’s incomprehensible how incomprehensible this movie is.” Inspired by Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal’s phantom dustup in China Salesman, film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy beam-of-pure-energy Corky McDonnell are in a fighting mood on this week’s Dare Daniel mini-episode. After rehashing the double-fisted, single-celled lunacy of China Salesman, Daniel and Corky tussle over their picks for the Best and Worst movie fight scenes, igniting a Dodge City-style barroom brawl of words. The hosts also look ahead to next week’s review of the bloviating b...

2019-01-2225 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “China Salesman”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DareDanielE030S01.mp3 China Salesman (2018; Tan Bing) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 30 “Looks like you’ve become the badass I once hoped to be.” It’s treason season on the Dare Daniel podcast, as film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell review the Chinese state-sponsored propaganda of Tan Bing’s China Salesman, co-starring Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal. A wildly inept attempt to make an action film about unfair bidding practices in global telecommunications contracts, China Salesman concerns a plot by the West to defeat the East by fomenti...

2019-01-151h 03

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 29.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DareDanielE029_halfS01.mp3 “If you are a connoisseur of the bad movie, just swirl this one around in your glass for a few minutes before quaffing.” Just as predicted in Blade Runner, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell start the first new Dare Daniel episode of 2019 by previewing Tan BIng’s China Salesman, an international action movie that also serves as anti-western propaganda for Chinese telecommunications companies. Daniel and Corky also look back at their previous review of A Christmas Story 2, an unfathomably unfunny Christmas comedy that would take the holly out o...

2019-01-0832 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie trilogyhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DareDanielE007rerunS01.mp3 Fifty Shades of Grey film trilogy – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun 1 Two men, three movies, four beers, one hundred fifty shades. It’s a New Year, but an old episode. Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell are still recovering from the holidays, so please enjoy this repeat of our popular Fifty Shades trilogy episode. Back in June, Daniel and Corky reviewed all three of these erotic tales of spousal abuse and revolting consumerism, featuring one of the least likable couples in the history of visual media, in a single...

2019-01-011h 34

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “A Christmas Story 2”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DareDanielE029S01.mp3 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 a direct sequel to the beloved 1983 classic. A mean, angry, assaultive and annoying series of nostalgic callbacks and nasty characters that society has elected to erase from its collective memory, A Christmas Story 2 is the perfect cinematic lump of coal for the nau...

2018-12-2447 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 28.5“Nobody likes you, sugarplums!” On this holly jolly mini-episode, your secret Santas Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell preview their Christmas Day review of A Christmas Story 2, the 2012 straight-to-VOD sequel that literally no one wanted. This cinematic clinker is available to rent on all the usual VOD services. Make plans to ignore your family and spend this holiday with the Dare Daniel podcast. Elsewhere in the episode, Daniel and Corky offer final thoughts on Cutthroat Island, a film about pirate booty that stank like pirate ass, before sending it down to Davy Jones’ locker. Finally, D...

2018-12-1832 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Cutthroat Island”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DareDanielE028S01.mp3 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 than you could imagine, Cutthroat Island is a chaotic jumble of bad action, juvenile comedy and chilly romance, all wrapped in a cheesecloth of limp, lifeless pirate cliches. Set in a universe where time, space and logic do n...

2018-12-111h 02

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 27.5“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 hosts clear out the end-of-year clutter by reading an unprecedented number of listener Dares. Defying orders from Starfleet Command, the hosts discuss Pauly Shore, In Cold Blood, disgraced Oscar winners and Dorf on Golf. This week’s craft beer: ...

2018-12-0435 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Collision Course”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DareDanielE027S01.mp3 Collision Course (1989; Lewis Teague) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 27 “I’m on your ass!” In this turbocharged episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, dream team hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review the crazy-racist buddy cop comedy Collision Course, featuring the nightmare team of Jay Leno and Pat Morita. A vile and incompetent archive of 1980s cop movie cliches rife with product placement and casual racism, Collision Course stars Leno as a Detroit cop and Morita as a Japanese detective chasing a stolen prototype turbocharge...

2018-11-2751 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 26.5 “The orchestra didn’t have a string section, it had a heartstring section.” Buddy cops Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell play by their own rules in this super-sized mini-episode, avenging each other’s deaths even after the angry Sargeant orders them off the cases. The mismatched podcast hosts first look ahead to next week’s review of the racist 1989 action-comedy Collision Course, starring the mismatched Pat Morita and Jay Leno as mismatched cops trying to retrieve a stolen turbocharger. While hill-person Corky struggles with the internet, the question of the week is left to...

2018-11-2034 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Monuments Men”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DareDanielE026S01.mp3 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, pretentious and vapid WWII art history lecture The Monuments Men. Once again turning a powerful real-life story into a wacky genre picture a la Suburbicon, Clooney speeches and preaches nonstop throughout The Monuments Men (art = good; Nazis = bad), tu...

2018-11-1351 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 25.5On this beefy mini-episode, comedy legend Corky McDonnell and comedy myth Daniel Barnes take a long nap to prepare for their review of George Clooney’s sleepy art history lecture The Monuments Men. After predictably rehashing their Suburbicon disagreement, Daniel and Corky revisit the stank number two known as Exorcist II: The Heretic. While Corky continues his Wayans brothers obsession and makes numerous incorrect claims about Murder on the Orient Express, Daniel calls out the “unfathomably tedious“ 2006 remake of All the King’s Men, proving once and for all that Keb’ Less truly is Keb’ Mo’. Dare D...

2018-11-0633 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Exorcist II: The Heretic”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DareDanielE025S01.mp3 Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977; John Boorman) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 25 “It was horrible…utterly horrible…and fascinating.” For the final episode in their Scare Daniel series, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell synchronize their tones to review John Boorman’s laughably unscary 1977 horror sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic. The film stars Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher and Richard Burton’s whiskey sweats. A movie simultaneously obsessed with and contemptuous of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic, Exorcist II: The Heretic is crazy without ever becoming crazy fun. Hypnotized by a s...

2018-10-3048 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Sleepaway Camp”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DareDanielE024S01.mp3 Sleepaway Camp (1983; Robert Hiltzik) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 24 “In fond memory of mom, a doer.” Corky McDonnell, a doer, and Daniel Barnes, a don’t-er, put on their shortest shorts and head to Camp Arawak to review Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 cult classic Sleepaway Camp. An atypical slasher movie that blurs the lines between high and low art, good and bad acting, male and female, proficiency and ineptitude, sophistication and primitivism, and laughing at and laughing with, Sleepaway Camp was ignored upon release but obtained a fervent following...

2018-10-2354 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 23.5 Our Scare Daniel series of much-maligned horror films continues all throughout the month of Cork-tober. In this sinister mini-episode, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell preview next week’s review of the 1983 cult favorite Sleepaway Camp, while also looking back at their previous review of the lowbrow yet crazily complex “comedy” Transylmania. Unimpressed by the bloodsuckers in Transylmania, Daniel and Corky pick their favorite movie vampires, with both hosts naturally centering on Max Schreck (and Lauren Hutton). Elsewhere, Corky gets into the spirit of the season by singing some Lisa Loeb, Daniel invents a...

2018-10-1825 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Transylmania”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DareDanielE023S01.mp3 Transylmania (2009; David and Scott Hillenbrand) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 23 “Vampire orgy, here I come!” In the latest installment of Scare Daniel, Codex Eroticon scholars Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell put on their most valuable blue jeans to review David and Scott Hillenbrand’s witless and scare-less horror comedy Transylmania. Daniel and Corky shelve their slob vs. snob rivalry long enough to agree on the loathsomeness of Transylmania, a rancidly unfunny yet pointlessly complex comedy. Transylmania boasts an Ed Gein sense of humor, rampant misogyny and homophobia...

2018-10-1653 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 22.5 Continuing their month-long Scare Daniel series, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell kick off this fun-sized mini-episode with a preview of the horror-comedy Transylmania, the film so unfunny that even National Lampoon wouldn’t put their name on it. Boasting a historic discrepancy between critical reviews and audience reviews, Transylmania is emblematic of our country’s increasing divide between ivory-tower eggheads and the unwashed hoi polloi. This schism should only widen when the episode comes out on Tuesday. The hosts also revisit their previous review, trying and failing to find the paradox (or is it pair-of-dicks?) in The C...

2018-10-1122 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Cloverfield Paradox”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DareDanielE022S01.mp3 The Cloverfield Paradox (2018; Julius Onah) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 22 “This dimension is eating us alive!” Inter-dimensional travelers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell renew their Netflix streaming subscriptions for this week’s Scare Daniel review of the dreary space horror sequel The Cloverfield Paradox. Originally called God Particle but rewritten mid-production to make it part of the Cloverfield franchise, The Cloverfield Paradox concerns an energy crisis on Earth, and yet the greater concern is the energy crisis onscreen. Daniel and Corky turn up their moisture levels...

2018-10-0946 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 21.5wIn this week’s bone-chilling episode, the confluence of horror movie season and football season inspires hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell to hold a horror movie murderer fantasy draft, with both hosts going the conventional route and selecting stabbers in the first round. After braving the schlock-value scares of Rawhead Rex, Daniel and Corky continue their Scare Daniel series by previewing next week’s review of Netflix exclusive The Cloverfield Paradox. While waiting for J.J. Abrams to purchase the show, stick an alien in it and rebrand the program as a Cloverfield podcast, the host...

2018-10-0426 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Rawhead Rex”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DareDanielE021S01.mp3 Rawhead Rex (1986; George Pavlou) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 21 “Your mother’s a vicious rumor!” Throughout the entire month of Cork-tober, the Dare Daniel podcast becomes Scare Daniel, with hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell reviewing five much-maligned horror movies. First on the chopping block: George Pavlou’s low-budget monster movie Rawhead Rex, about an incredibly fake-looking demon who terrorizes pantry shelves across the Irish countryside. With a dog of a script from Clive Barker, the film failed to inspire a Pavlou-vian response in the hosts, although this...

2018-10-0243 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 20.5Welcome to Scare Daniel, a Halloween-themed overlay of the podcast featuring reviews of five maligned horror movies during the entire month of Cork-tober. First on the chopping block: George Pavlou’s 1986 film Rawhead Rex, a hilariously bad adaptation of a Clive Barker short story that stars David Dukes, Kelly Piper and the most janky-looking monster mask you have ever seen. In the meantime, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell prepare for Scare Daniel by talking about the horror scenes that scared them the most, while also taking a look back at the structural horrors of last...

2018-09-2720 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Exposed”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DareDanielE020S01.mp3 Exposed (2016; Declan Dale aka Gee Malik Linton) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 20 “Nobody likes you!” After unsuccessfully suing to have their names removed from the episode, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell enter a fugue state to review the utterly indecipherable Keanu Reeves thriller Exposed. A catastrophe on every imaginable level, Exposed was originally titled Daughter of God, before getting hacked to pieces by Lionsgate and dumped onto North American VOD. As ambiguity crosses over into incoherence, Daniel and Corky wonder what’s wrong with Keanu’s face...

2018-09-2545 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 19.5In this rapid-fire training montage of a mini-episode, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell preview next week’s review of Exposed, an unsurprisingly unmemorable film that was cut to nonsensical ribbons by the studio. Daniel and Corky also look back through poop-colored glasses at their previous review of Ready to Rumble, and after feeling uninspired by the “big game” ending of that laughless wrestling comedy, the hosts select their all-time favorite “big game” movies endings. After exchanging the usual casual threats of murder and copyright infringement, Daniel and Corky discuss grapefruit water and George Burns, deduce who put the...

2018-09-2022 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Ready to Rumble”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DareDanielE019S01.mp3 Ready to Rumble (2000; Brian Robbins) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 19 “Let’s get ready to podcast!” Despite all the icy sugar locking up their nog-nogs, professional septic tank cleaners Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review Brian Robbins’ unbelievably unfunny 2000 wrestling comedy Ready to Rumble, starring Hollywood legacy bottomfeeders David Arquette and Scott Caan as nitwit fans on a mission to redeem their disgraced hero. Famously doughy character actor Oliver Platt plays the fallen wrestling heavyweight (Platt wears at least three top layers at all times to simulate nonexistent musculature...

2018-09-1837 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 18.5 Leeeeeeeet’s get reeeeeeeady to watch a sad, lazy, coprophiliac sports comedy starring a couple of bottom-feeding Hollywood legacy actors! Subdued wrestler Corky McDonnell and capital Ganz tax advocate Daniel Barnes strap on some Spandex to prepare for their review of Brian Robbins’ terribly unfunny Ready to Rumble, starring David Arquette and Scott Caan as psychotic wrestling fans determined to redeem their fallen hero. If you adore poop and tolerate wrestling, this is still probably not the film for you. Speaking of poop, the hosts also look back at their previous review of Clifford...

2018-09-1322 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 17.5Inspirational calculus instructor Corky McDonnell and homicidal substitute teacher Daniel Barnes head back to school in this recess-sized mini-episode, as they pick their all-time favorite movie teachers. The pedantic hosts also preview next week’s review of the repulsive comedy Clifford, a film that spent five years developing its flavors before finally getting released to the public in 1994. It stars Martin Short as a devilish ten-year-old and Charles Grodin as his tormented uncle, and if you feel like bullying yourself, the film is available to watch for free on Vudu and TubiTV. Next, the hosts revis...

2018-09-0623 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Suburbicon”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DareDanielE017S01.mp3 Suburbicon (2017; George Clooney) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 17 “This case stinks. I smelled it coming off the freeway.” Suburban commandoes Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell travel into the dark heart of 1950s homeowners’ associations to review George Clooney’s ambitious but tone-deaf 2017 black comedy Suburbicon. One of the 37 unsuccessful movies that Matt Damon made last year, Suburbia stars the former Will Hunting as murderous husband and father Gardner Lodge, while Julianne Moore plays twin sisters Rose and Maggie…or is it Maggie and Rose? Daniel can...

2018-09-0444 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 16.5 Thanks to the lingering horrors of Heartbeeps, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell have robots on the brain this week. After briefly reliving their traumatic review of the 1981 Allen Arkush clunker starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters, the hosts try to upgrade their moods by picking their all-time favorite movie robots (of course, this only leads Daniel to pitch woo to CHAPPiE while Corky pitches a CHAPPiE and the Bear TV pilot). These two products of suburbia also preview next week’s episode, a review of George Clooney’s Suburbicon that gets so spicy that it sho...

2018-08-3020 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Heartbeeps”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DareDanielE016S01.mp3 Heartbeeps (1981; Allan Arkush) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 16 “These friendly robots are obviously not mischievous trespassers.” Banana daiquiri expert Daniel Barnes and lumber (and its profitable by-products) specialist Corky McDonnell rip open a couple of bags of beers to discuss Allan Arkush’s indelibly disturbing 1981 family comedy Heartbeeps, starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as nightmarish robots who fall in love. Recorded live over brunch and beers at Sac City Brews Neighborhood Tap House in the Tallac Village neighborhood of Sacramento, this episode of Dare Dan...

2018-08-2845 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 15.5 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 of Revolution by reviewing Revolution Revisited (aka Rev Rev to the superfans), a 2009 director’s cut that fixes none of the film’s many fundamental problems. Elsewhere, the hosts are inspired by good Mexican food to pledge their allegiance to capitalism, while Corky thanks listeners fo...

2018-08-2319 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Revolution”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DareDanielE015S01.mp3 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 Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell get forcibly conscripted to review Hugh Hudson’s 1985 box office bomb Revolution, starring Al Pacino as an 18th-century Scottish-American hunter-trapper who just wants to sell his “fuhs up da rivah,” and co-starring Nastassj...

2018-08-2148 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Renaissance Man”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DareDanielE014S01.mp3 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 duo of Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines. In a desperate attempt to manufacture any kind of stakes, the hosts discuss Burger King dates and patriotic Hamlet tests. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky wonder where the film’s $...

2018-08-1450 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 13.5In 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, and recalling their previous criticisms of Bright and Hancock, Daniel and Corky finally shine a little sunshine on The Fresh Prince by picking their favorite Will Smith movies. Elsewhere, Daniel connects the dots between Yasujiro Ozu and Michael Bay, Corky hits his head on his own micr...

2018-08-0916 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Collateral Beauty”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DareDanielE013S01.mp3 Collateral Beauty (2016; David Frankel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 13 “Shed your skin.” Abstract concepts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell struggle to find any beauty, collateral or otherwise, in David Frankel’s 2016 “catastro-fuck of the shittiest order.” Despite a cast that includes six former Oscar nominees (and two winners), including Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren, Collateral Beauty is essentially a rich person’s Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. Daniel and Corky cut through the treacle to discuss Domino rallies, skin shedding, Heave...

2018-08-0745 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Can’t Stop the Music”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DareDanielE012S01.mp3 Can’t Stop the Music (1980; Nancy Walker) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 12 “Oh boy! One hot night coming up!” On this crotch-bulging episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Saddle Tramps go-go boys Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review Nancy Walker’s coked-up 1980 Village People origin story Can’t Stop the Music (aka Searching for Leatherman). The first film to win the Razzie award for Worst Picture, it co-stars Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, and a pre-gender transition Caitlyn Jenner, but the film is best remembered for inspiring the...

2018-07-3149 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Theodore Rex”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DareDanielE010S01.mp3 Theodore Rex (1995; Jonathan R. Betuel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 10 “This is where the nightmare reaches its horrifying crescendo.” On this shellshocked episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, esteemed dinosaurologist Daniel Barnes and “bodacious cretaceous” Corky McDonnell review Jonathan R. Beteul’s disastrous 1995 buddy-cop-mystery Theodore Rex, starring Whoopi Goldberg and a talking dinosaur. Under the threat of a lawsuit, your soft skin hosts discuss the sexually aggressive vibe at the Extinct Species Club, ponder the difference being on-the-grid and off-the-grid, and wonder why there’s a samurai in th...

2018-07-1753 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Circle”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DareDanielE009S01.mp3 The Circle (2017; James Ponsoldt) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 9 On this week’s episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, social media warrior Corky McDonnell and “woke bro” Daniel Barnes get to the bottom of this so-called Internet with their review of James Ponsoldt’s The Circle. Starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks and John Boyega as employees at a cult-like tech company, the irrationally paranoid The Circle examines essential 21st-century privacy issues with all the depth of a Facebook debate. Daniel and Corky put down their damn phon...

2018-07-1051 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Shining Through”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DareDanielE008S01.mp3 Shining Through (1992; David Seltzer) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 8 “I want you to taste my strudel!” Open wide, film fans. Joely Richardson Fan Club President Corky McDonnell and raw dove aficionado Daniel Barnes break out their absolute worst Melanie Griffith impressions to review her Razzie-winning performance in David Seltzer’s 1992 snoozer Shining Through. Griffith stars as a spunky secretary turned spy who falls for a sexually aggressive superior played by who else but Michael Douglas. This life-draining WWII romance is unfathomably idiotic, even for a...

2018-07-0345 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “Aloha”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/DareDanielE004S01.mp3 . Aloha (2015; Cameron Crowe) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 4 On this week’s episode, film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell lei into Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Bill Murray. The hosts discuss the unexpected poetry of e-mail hacks, Manic Pixie Dream Racism, the importance of pedestrian gates and whether or not Ke$ha could launch a satellite, all the while struggling in vain to figure out what the movie’s main character does for a living. This week’s beer: Mode...

2018-05-2252 min

Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel Dare Daniel – “The Identical”https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DareDanielE002S01.mp3 The Identical (2014; Dustin Marcellino) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 2 Is it an Elvis movie or a Jesus movie (or a dessert topping or a floor wax)? On this episode of Dare Daniel, film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell try to make pompadoured heads or boogie-woogie tails of Dustin Marcellino’s The Identical. This incomprehensible mash-up of Elvis and Jesus iconography opens in the deep South, and it never stops going south from there. Listen as Daniel and Corky discuss talent show judge etiquette, the ethics...

2018-04-2443 min