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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 films cape.
Read more of Daniel’s reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes, and listen to Daniel on the Dare Daniel podcast.
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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 minDare Daniel PodcastDaniel Talks “Oppenheimer” – Bonus Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Daniel.mp3
Oppenheimer (2023; Christopher Nolan)
Rating: Bump It
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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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Can’t Stop the Music” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcasthttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DareDanielRerun20_Cant-Stop-The-Music.mp3
Can’t Stop the Music (1980; Nancy Walker) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 20
“Relax! Boogie!”
Tragically unable to stop the music, Daniel and Corky serve up two scoops of Can’t Stop the Nuts to revisit their review of this factually dubious Village People biopic.
CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. release date: June 20, 1980
Critics scores: 22 on Rotten Tomatoes
This week’s Darer: Dan Scott
Why did Dan dare Daniel and Corky? “Because you can’t st...2023-06-1359 minDare Daniel Podcast“Love on a Leash” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcasthttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DareDanielRerun19_Love-on-a-Leash.mp3
Love on a Leash (2011; Dir.: Fen Tian) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 19
“His name is Alvin Flang! His name is Alvin Flang!”
Pizza-faced cinderblocks Daniel and Corky get revenge on the evil pond that cursed them to become professional podcasters by revisiting their review of Fen Tian’s jaw-dropping Love on a Leash.
LOVE ON A LEASH FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. DVD release date: Aug. 19, 2013
Critic scores: n/a
This week’s darers: Erica Shultz and Gunnar Pear...2023-05-301h 20Dare Daniel Podcast“Rawhead Rex” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcasthttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DareDanielRerun13_Rawhead-Rex.mp3
Rawhead Rex (1986; George Pavlou) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 13
“Get upstairs, fuckface! I can’t keep God waiting!”
Daniel and Corky emerge from the ground to revisit their first Scare Daniel review: the slop-dog 1986 monster movie Rawhead Rex.
RAWHEAD REX FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. theatrical release date: April 17, 1987
Critics scores: 25 on Rotten Tomatoes
This week’s Darer: Matthew Dougherty
Why did Matthew dare Daniel and Corky to watch this movie? “Just terrible B horror movie. Bad effect...2023-03-0740 minDare Daniel Podcast“Fateful Findings” Best of Dare Daniel Podcasthttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DareDanielRerun09_Fateful-Findings.mp3
Fateful Findings – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 9
“I can’t believe we’re revisiting Fateful Findings.”
Daniel and Corky uncover the cosmic conspiracy behind Best of Dare Daniel by listlessly pecking at random keys on five broken laptops.
New Dare Daniel episodes will resume in the Spring!
FATEFUL FINDINGS FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. festival premiere: Dec. 8, 2012
This week’s darer: Gunnar Pearson
Gunnar’s dare: “You guys talk about bad movies and every show or podcast that ta...2023-01-101h 19Dare Daniel Podcast“Strait-Jacket” (1964) Podcast Movie Review”
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Strait-Jacket (1964) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 120
“Do you want to date a doctor?”
Zombie Daniel and Mummy Corky return from the dead for the 2022 edition of Scare Daniel. This is the fifth installment of our October horror movie series, meaning we’ve reached A New Beginning in Friday the 13th years. William Castle’s Strait-Jacket is a middling Psycho meets Gaslight proto-slasher movie that telegraphs its plot twists more than Western Union. But it’s elevated by Joan Crawford’s remarkably committed, possessed and highly physical turn as...2022-10-041h 00Dare Daniel Podcast“Grunt! The Wrestling Movie” Podcast Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DareDanielE117S01.mp3
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 117
“You can tell he didn’t cut his own promos.”
Mad Dog Is Mask Fan Club founding members Daniel and Corky take a beating from the 1985 mockumentary Grunt! The Wrestling Movie. After an amusing first five minutes, the film quickly becomes a chore. It’s driven by a mystery no one in their right mind could possibly care about and padded to feature length with endless wrestling sequences and an extended Wally George cameo.
Elsewhere, Daniel and...2022-08-2350 minDare Daniel Podcast“Saturn 3” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DareDanielE113S01.mp3
Saturn 3 – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 113
“You flunked!”
Retentive technocrats Daniel and Corky come down from their blue dreamer trip to review Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel in Stanley Donen’s sloppy space opera Saturn 3. The film assembles an amazing armada of above-the-line talent for a passionless, murky and uninspired Adam and Eve in space parable.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss space chess strategy, robot birthing hips and inexplicable detonation buttons.
SATURN 3 FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. theatrical release...2022-06-2855 minDare Daniel Podcast“365 Days: This Day” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DareDanielE111S01.mp3
365 Days: This Day – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 111
“I’m a little bit of a psycho/I’m driving you like a Lambo”
Daniel and Corky are back and stronger than ever. But a conspicuously terrible movie bidding for no sane human’s heart complicates the podcasters’ lives. 365 Days: This Day distances itself from the sex-trafficking-as-courtship ethos of its predecessor, yet somehow emerges as an even more loathsome and vapid entity.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss appetizer montages, yule log workouts, drone shot brunches and Chekhov’s tw...2022-05-311h 10Dare Daniel Podcast“365 Days” – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerunhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DareDanielRerun05.mp3
365 Days – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun 5
“Are you lost, baby girl?”
Daniel and Corky get you pumped for their upcoming review of 365 Days: This Day with a rerun of their popular 365 Days episode.
365 DAYS FACTS AND FIGURES
Daniel’s craft beer: Henhouse Brewing‘s MK Ultra IPA (6.9% ABV)
Corky’s craft beer: Berryessa Brewing‘s Free Kittens rice lager (5% ABV)
Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes
This week’s darer: Jesse Davis
Why did Jesse dare Daniel and Corky to wat...2022-05-1759 minDare Daniel Podcast“Rabbit Test” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DareDanielE108S01.mp3
Rabbit Test – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 108
“Next to you, the moon walk was doo-doo.”
This week, Gladys Knight & the Poops super-fans Daniel and Corky labor over Joan Rivers’ catastrophically unfunny Rabbit Test. Ostensibly about the world’s first pregnant man, Rabbit Test is a grim comedy death jog through lazy ethnic humor and vulgar non-jokes that were already tired in 1978. The film doesn’t even bother to mine its own high-concept premise for laughs.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Louis Pasteur references, P...2022-04-051h 07Dare Daniel PodcastDare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 4https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DareDanielDares04.mp3
Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 4
“Dares are our food and tonight…we feast!”
On this very special episode, famed podcaster Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell gorge on a buffet of bad movie dares.
FACTS AND FIGURES
This week’s cocktail: Thyme Thief 2.0 (2 oz. New Alchemy Fleurette gin; 0.25 oz. St.-Germain; 0.75 oz. lemon juice; 0.5 oz. thyme simple syrup; 1 dash Angostura orange bitters; 10 drops St. George Absinthe Verte)
This week’s Dares: Biker Boyz (Samantha Kidd);The Happytime Murders (Julio from Th...2022-03-221h 10Dare Daniel Podcast“Foodfight!” – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerunhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/DareDanielE084rerunS01.mp3
Foodfight! – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun 4
“My friends come out to creep.”
FOODFIGHT! FACTS AND FIGURES
Corky and Daniel’s craft spirit: Legado Rye Whiskey
U.K. theatrical release date: June 15, 2012
Worldwide box office: $120,141 (production budget: $45-65 million)
This week’s darer: Charlie Sheen
Why did Charlie dare Daniel and Corky to watch Foodfight!? “Long-time fan, first-time caller. I don’t think you’ve ever done an animated film meant for children before. So why not subject your delicate s...2022-01-111h 13Dare Daniel Podcast“Moment by Moment” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DareDanielE100S01.mp3
Moment by Moment – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 100
“I was counting every single moment until this movie ended.”
Daniel and Corky celebrate Episode #100 by welcoming producer/podcast doula Johnny Flores back to the podcast to review Moment by Moment. This dreary drag of a drippy romance stars Lily Tomlin and John Travolta as lovers who look like and possess the sexual chemistry of siblings. Moment by Moment announces its indifference and ineptitude in the opening moments, and then reinforces it over the next several thousand moments.
Els...2021-11-161h 23Dare Daniel Podcast“Cosmic Sin” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 03Dare Daniel PodcastDare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 3https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DareDanielDares03.mp3
Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 3
On this very special Dare Daniel podcast episode, Daniel and Corky read a bumper crop of bad movie dares. The hosts also prepare for their upcoming 100th episode by recounting their most (and least) popular reviews.
FACTS AND FIGURES
This week’s Dares: Black Easter (Gunnar Pearson); Ryan’s Babe (Gunnar Pearson); Seventh Son (Colin Williams); Three Musketeers (2011) (Marco Carbodi); Grunt! the Wrestling Movie (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T); Sex and Death 101 (Julio from The Contrarians); Dude Bro Party Massacre III (Ry...2021-08-031h 10Dare Daniel Podcast“Ava” (2020) Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“The New Mutants” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DareDanielE087S01.mp3
The New Mutants – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 87
“Within all of us, there are at least two bores. One of those bores is this movie.”
Daniel and Corky put away their old mutants in anticipation of reviewing Josh Boone’s franchise non-starter, The New Mutants. A movie that no one wanted, The New Mutants suffered through a tortured post-production before getting a perfunctory pandemic release. Bland and pointless beyond belief, The New Mutants is two-thirds traumatic backstory monologues and one-third CGI-on-CGI fisticuffs. It wants to be so many thi...2021-04-2756 minDare Daniel Podcast“Hercules in New York” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DareDanielE086S01.mp3
Hercules in New York – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 86
“Hercules schmercules!”
Daniel and Corky descend from Olympus to review the fish-out-of-water monkeyshines of Arthur Allan Seidelman’s Hercules in New York.
A movie seemingly devoid of second takes, this debut film for 22-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger (née Strong) is a doggerel-filled, painfully unfunny, low-budget comedy set in Midnight Cowboy-era NYC.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss cardboard thunderbolts, frenzied mandolins and Stang-provisation.
NEW DARE
The New Mutants (Matt Barnes...2021-04-1349 minDare Daniel Podcast“Runaway” (1984) Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DareDanielE085S01.mp3
Runaway (1984) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 85
“Now kiss your ass goodbye!”
Daniel and Corky don their electro-magnetic scatter-suits to review Tom Selleck as a robot-hating cop in Michael Crichton’s Runaway. A cliched cop movie with the tiniest sliver of a sci-fi twist, Runaway barrages you with wooden dialogue and hacky choices.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss dense packs, Rebecca De Mornay comparisons, evil guy meetings and girder-bots.
NEW DARE
Savage Bees (Rebecca B.)
RUNAWAY (1984) FACTS AND FIGURE...2021-03-301h 03Dare Daniel Podcast“Foodfight!” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 07Dare Daniel Podcast“The Conqueror” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DareDanielE083S01.mp3
The Conqueror – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 83
“I am bereft of spit!”
Get your Geiger counters ready for this patently offensive episode of the Dare Daniel Podcast. Daniel and Corky review John Wayne in the role he was born to never play, Mongol leader Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss dancing bears, tripping horses and the variety of ass spice.
NEW DARE
The Exorcist III (Christopher Reeves)
THE CONQUEROR FACTS AND FIGURES
2021-03-0245 minDare Daniel Podcast“Johnny Mnemonic” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DareDanielE082S01.mp3
Johnny Mnemonic – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 82
“Get that piece of garbage out of here.”
LoTek interns Daniel and Corky clear out their brains to properly review Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic. Reeves leads an international cast of tax breaks in this chintzy cyberpunk thriller inexplicably directed by artist Robert Longo.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss “special rooms,” Dr. Henry Rollins, laser whips and electro-wires.
NEW DARES
36.15 Code Pere Noel (David Paul)
Phat Girlz (Rose)
JOHNNY MN...2021-02-1656 minDare Daniel Podcast“Holidate” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DareDanielE081S01.mp3
Holidate – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 81
“It’s my new least favorite word in the world.”
Daniel and Corky serve as each other’s holidate on this holidate-themed episode of the Dare Daniel podcast. Rancid self-awareness and a complete lack of sincerity rule the holidate in this shallow rom-com starring Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey. The titular portmanteau needs no explanation yet gets explained ad nauseum, all despite the fact that there are only one or two holidays where anyone would need or want dates.
Elsewher...2021-02-021h 17Dare Daniel Podcast“The Jesus Rolls” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DareDanielE080S01.mp3
The Jesus Rolls – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 80
“Wiping your ass is an experience.”
Daniel and Corky fuck with the Jesus in this day-drinking episode by reviewing John Turturro’s The Jesus Rolls. Tonal atrocities abound in this pointless amalgam of a Big Lebowski side-quel and an age-inappropriate remake of the 1974 French film Going Places. The cameo-filled The Jesus Rolls fails both of its source films, yet also manages to fail on its own terms.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss gondolier fashion, Manic Pixie Dream Slut...2021-01-1945 minDare Daniel Podcast“Norbit” – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerunhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DareDanielE59rerunS01.mp3
Norbit – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun 3
It’s a new year, but an old episode. Instead of working over Christmas break, Daniel and Corky decided to rerun one of their most beloved episodes of 2020. Failing that, they decided to rerun their review of Norbit instead.
The two saving graces to Norbit are Eddie Murphy’s go-for-broke performances, and the Oscar-nominated makeup work by Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji. Otherwise, it’s a nonstop series of sloppily constructed comedy bits peopled with racist and misogynist caricatures. Norbit is a movie d...2021-01-0553 minDare Daniel Podcast“Holiday Engagement” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 09Dare Daniel Podcast“Elvira Mistress of the Dark” Scare Daniel Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Q The Winged Serpent” Scare Daniel Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DareDanielE074S01.mp3
Q: The Winged Serpent – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 74
“Bad dream go away.”
Daniel and Corky kick off Scare Daniel 2020 with Larry Cohen’s Q, an old-fashioned monster movie with a New Hollywood twist. Q stands for Quetzalcoatl, the flying feathered serpent, an Aztec God who goes to Manhattan to brunch on Manhattanites. A mix of familiar schlock and unusual invention, Q gets a major boost from Michael Moriarity’s Method-style performance as the film’s scat-singing anti-hero.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss bird reports, “Nixon...2020-10-131h 04Dare Daniel Podcast“365 Days” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DareDanielE073S01.mp3
365 Days – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 73
“Are you lost, baby girl?”
This week, Daniel and Corky strap themselves in to endure the hardcore softcore hump-a-thon of Netflix’s viral hit, 365 Days. This repugnant Fifty Shades knockoff plays like an erotic rewrite of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Besides fetishizing Stockholm Syndrome, this barrage of atrocious pop songs and makeover montages features some of the clumsiest storytelling imaginable.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss the career arc of cocaine mirror holders and the perils of dating dungeon owners.2020-09-2953 minDare Daniel Podcast“Beyond the Seventh Door” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 00Dare Daniel Podcast“Dangerous Men” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DareDanielE071S01.mp3
Dangerous Men – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 71
“From now on, all trash like you is gonna end up dead.”
Daniel and Corky go to “shell” in a handbasket this week with their review of John S. Rad’s mind-boggling Dangerous Men. Recorded live from a beach-accessible Bodega Bay biker bar, the hosts struggle to make any sense of this WTF classic.
Over 20 years in the making, Dangerous Men is wildly inept in a manner so unique that it’s almost visionary. Director-writer-editor-cinematographer-composer Rad displays incompetence in o...2020-09-011h 15Dare Daniel Podcast“Think Big” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Fathers’ Day” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DareDanielE069S01.mp3
Fathers’ Day – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 69
“You mirth machine, you.”
This week, Daniel and Corky revive their long-running Lowell Ganz vs. Babaloo Mandel feud by reviewing the wretched Fathers’ Day. A film so sloppy that it was released on Mother’s Day weekend, Fathers’ Day bottoms even the most basement-level expectations. This thoroughly sad and lazy comedy pairs Robin Williams and Billy Crystal as would-be fathers searching for a Sugar Ray-obsessed teenage wastoid. Unfunny non-hijinx ensue.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss superfluous wallet chains, diegetic...2020-08-041h 02Dare Daniel Podcast“Dolittle” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DareDanielE068S01.mp3
Dolittle (2020) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 68
“Teamwork makes the dream work!”
In this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky get their Barry-berries caught in the gears of the robotic Dolittle. This 2020 box office bomb stars dozens of insufferable CGI creatures and an even more insufferable Robert Downey, Jr. It’s a spectacularly ugly exercise in focus-groupthink that tries to please everyone, and thus inevitably pleases no one.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss squirrel surgery, Styx lyrics, and Chekhov’s dragon.
NEW DARES
Bl...2020-07-211h 02Dare Daniel Podcast“Backdraft 2” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DareDanielE067S01.mp3
Backdraft 2 – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 67
“McCaffrey’s not here to make friends, make family, or make the country any better.”
Personality void Joe Anderson heads this unnecessary and empty straight-to-streaming sequel. He plays scion Sean McCaffrey, a fire-splaining arson investigator with visible stink lines and a war chest of personality cliches. Billy Baldwin returns as Uncle Billy Baldwin McCaffrey, while Donald Sutherland redoes his Hannibal Lecter-as-arsonist bit. Unfortunately, there is no reason to care about anyone onscreen other than nostalgia for a 30-year-old movie that no one li...2020-07-0749 minDare Daniel Podcast“Krull” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DareDanielE066S01.mp3
Krull – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 66
“It’s not the Glaive, it’s you.”
Is it a heroic fantasy or a science-fiction swashbuckler? Or is it just a bald-faced Star Wars knockoff with touches of Lord of the RIngs and Excalibur? In this coffee-addled podcast episode, Daniel and Corky confront the confusing world of Krull.
Krull is a two-hour movie written like a 22-minute TV episode and filled with the pointless, dead-end quests of a video game. Genre-hopping director Peter Yates was never going to make a c...2020-06-2359 minDare Daniel Podcast“Street Fighter” (1994) Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DareDanielE065S01.mp3
Street Fighter (1994) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 65
“Good morning, Shadaloo!”
Daniel and Corky travel to Shadaloo for this week’s episode, as they review Jean-Claude Van Damme in Street Fighter. Adapted from the CapCom video game, Street Fighter offers all the visual and narrative coherence you would expect from a movie directed by a quipster.
The hosts offer their worst impressions of Van Damme, who snorted a quarter of the film’s production budget and gave zero fucks. JCVD stars as Guile, the all-American adversary to...2020-06-091h 00Dare Daniel Podcast“Destination Wedding” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DareDanielE064S01.mp3
Destination Wedding – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 64
This week, Daniel and Corky remember the days when you could still travel to destinations by reviewing Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding. After remaining cooped up for months, the Dare Daniel hosts are ready for a fight. However, this limp rom-com two-hander puts up no fight whatsoever.
Reeves and Ryder get miscast as brittle, misanthropic loners connecting during a dreaded wedding weekend. The film demands congratulations for having a vocabulary, but the nonstop jabber is merely ti...2020-05-2652 minDare Daniel Podcast“Deadfall” (1993) Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DareDanielE063S01.mp3
Deadfall – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 63
“Hi-fucking-ya!”
It took them over 60 episodes, but Daniel and Corky are finally ready to review their first Nicolas Cage movie. Did Cage’s unhinged performance as a psycho gangster in Deadfall live up to the hype?
Also known as Nepotism: The Motion Picture, the remarkably inept Deadfall was directed by Cage’s brother, Christopher Coppola. Other stars doing favors in service of one of the most braindead movies ever created include James Coburn, Peter Fonda and Charlie Sheen. Unfortunatel...2020-05-121h 08Dare Daniel Podcast“Forbidden Zone” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DareDanielE061S01.mp3
Forbidden Zone – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 61
“It’s an Elfman movie. Who could ask for more?”
Recorded pre-quarantine, Daniel and Corky travel to the sixth dimension to review Forbidden Zone. The film was a box office failure that found a long second life as a midnight movie. But does Forbidden Zone deserve to stick around, or should we send it back up the anus of an underground giant?
In Richard Elfman’s gleefully transgressive, manic-deconstructionist vision, Susan Tyrell and Herve Villechaize rule the sixth dimension. Crazy random sh...2020-04-1457 minDare Daniel Podcast“Cats” (2019) Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DareDanielE060S01.mp3
Cats (2019) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 60
“Jellicle cats are simultaneously the most explained and unexplained things in the world.”
Daniel and Corky are sheltering in place, but the podcast goes on. For their first quarantine episode, Daniel and Corky review Tom Hooper’s wretched musical adaptation of Cats (2019).
Inspired by a book of poems by T.S. Eliot and popularized by cocaine, Cats was always a triumph of spectacle over substance. However, the film version ups the ante with nightmarish special effects that turn the actors i...2020-03-311h 03Dare Daniel Podcast“Norbit” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DareDanielE059S01.mp3
Norbit – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 59
“Everything in this movie is so pathologically unclever.”
In this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky disappear into the roles of white, middle-aged podcast hosts with their review of the outrageously unfunny Norbit.
Eddie Murphy co-wrote and co-produced this series of fart and poop jokes, making Norbit one of the weirdest passion projects ever. He also plays three roles, including the lifelong loser title character and Rasputia, his abusive wife. Rasputia is fat, mean and destructive, essentially a human versi...2020-03-161h 02Dare Daniel Podcast“The VelociPastor” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 03Dare Daniel PodcastDare 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 00Dare Daniel Podcast“God’s Not Dead 2” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 09Dare Daniel Podcast“God’s Not Dead” (2014) Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 03Dare Daniel Podcast“Saving Christmas” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Love Actually” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DareDanielE054S01.mp3
Love Actually (2003; Richard Curtis) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 54
“She wants the PM to slide into her DMs!”
In this week’s episode, Daniel, Corky and a special guest kick off the Christmas season with some “solid gold shit.” These days, the war on Christmas is actually fought over Love Actually, a rancid rom-com that became a beloved holiday tradition. Naturally, the Dare Daniel Podcast is ready to take up arms. Real-life British person Gav from Films on Trials lends his expert opinion to this episode, recorded live f...2019-12-101h 39Dare Daniel Podcast“Battlefield Earth” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 11Dare Daniel Podcast“The Fanatic” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 03Dare Daniel Podcast“An American Werewolf in Paris” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DareDanielE050S01.mp3
Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 50
An American Werewolf in Paris (1997; Anthony Waller)
“It would have been so simple to make this watchable.”
We see a bad movie rising this week on the Dare Daniel podcast. Hosts Daniel and Corky score serious daredevil points by reviewing Anthony Waller’s execrable An American Werewolf in Paris.
An exhausting and chaotic pseudo-sequel to John Landis’ 1981 horror-comedy classic, AAWiP offers one affront to the senses after another. The film blends loathsome characters, sociopathic cinematography and “garbage CGI wolf tran...2019-10-221h 06Dare Daniel Podcast“Vampire Academy” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 09Dare Daniel Podcast“Brainscan” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“The Warrior and the Sorceress” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Angels & Demons” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Warcraft” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Cool as Ice” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 12Dare Daniel PodcastDare 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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Mac and Me” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“God’s Not Dead” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 02Dare Daniel Podcast“Assassins” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 05Dare Daniel Podcast“Bio-Dome” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Leprechaun in the Hood” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm 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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Ishtar” Podcast Movie Revieww
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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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm 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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Heart Condition” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Gotti” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“China Salesman” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 03Dare Daniel Podcast“Fifty Shades of Grey” movie trilogy – Dare Daniel Podcast reviewhttps://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 34Dare Daniel Podcast“A Christmas Story 2” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm 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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Cutthroat Island” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 02Dare Daniel Podcast“Collision Course” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“The Monuments Men” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 24.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DareDanielE024_halfS01.mp3
On this demonic mini-episode of the Scare Daniel podcast, Daniel and Corky prepare for next week’s review of Exorcist II: The Heretic, John Boorman’s hilariously over-the-top 1977 follow-up to the Oscar-nominated horror classic. Look for Daniel and Corky’s full review of Exorcist II: The Heretic on Tuesday.
Inspired by next week’s film, the hosts also choose their all-time favorite horror movie sequels, which naturally leads to Corky pleading with Hollywood to produce a Once Bitten sequel called Twice Bitten.
Daniel and Corky also look back at their...2018-10-2534 minDare Daniel Podcast“Transylmania” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“The Cloverfield Paradox” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Rawhead Rex” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Ready to Rumble” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Suburbicon” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Heartbeeps” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm 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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm 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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Collateral Beauty” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Can’t Stop the Music” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 11.5https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DareDanielE011_halfS01.mp3
In this pint-sized mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Daniel and Corky get into character to review Nancy Walker’s 1980 musical epic Can’t Stop the Music, a Village People origin story co-starring Steve Guttenberg and Valerie Perrine.
The film that coke-snortingly assumed the already-deceased disco craze would never die, Can’t Stop the Music is available for free with an Amazon Prime or Epix subscription, and available for rent on the all the usual VOD services.
Your hosts also rehash their bitter disagreement over The Dark Tower (are...2018-07-2623 minDare Daniel Podcast“The Dark Tower” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DareDanielE011S01.mp3
The Dark Tower (2017; Nikolaj Arcel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 11
“Have a great apocalypse.”
In this Grudge Match episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, Daniel and Corky go toe-to-toe over Nikolaj’s Arcel’s The Dark Tower, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.
Just as The Dark Tower books link together Stephen King’s various literary universes, this review of The Dark Tower inspires a Unified Dare Daniel Podcast Theory.
While Daniel forgets the face of his father and Corky dons a “Kiss the Man in Black...2018-07-2447 minDare Daniel PodcastFilm Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 10.5On this finger-food mini-episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, we preview our upcoming review of Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower, starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.
Still not sleeping nights following their traumatic experience with Theodore Rex, Daniel and Corky embrace the darkness by choosing their favorite (and least favorite) Stephen King movie adaptations.
Meanwhile, Corky waxes nostalgic about Stand By Me and Daniel stops doing his Woody Allen impression long enough to read a few of your movie dares.
Dare Daniel Question of the Week: What are your favorite and least favo...2018-07-1915 minDare Daniel Podcast“Theodore Rex” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“The Circle” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel PodcastDare Daniel Podcast – all three “Fifty Shades” filmshttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DareDanielE007S01.mp3
The Fifty Shades Film Trilogy – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 7
2 men, 3 movies, 4 beers, 150 shades.
Tuck the kids in bed, get out your sex jeans and strap yourself in for this decidedly NSFW episode of Dare Daniel, as Daniel and Corky submit to the ultimate punishment: watching and reviewing all three entries in the Fifty Shades movie trilogy.
After promising last week to review the films in “horrifying detail,” your lip-biting hosts do their dirtiest dirty work yet, reviewing nearly six hours worth of softcore cinema in...2018-06-261h 28Dare Daniel Podcast“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DareDanielE006S01.mp3
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017; Guy Ritchie) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 6
Failed film franchise experts Daniel and Corky saddle their magic battle elephants to fight the empty CGI spectacle of Guy Ritchie’s 2017 bomb King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Starring the never dynamic Charlie Hunnam, Legend of the Sword left out Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere and the Holy Grail in favor of creating an elaborate backstory for a rock, and yet the film still bombed with audiences and critics.
Liberally borrowing their analysi...2018-06-1950 minDare Daniel Podcast“Aloha” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/DareDanielE004S01.mp3
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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 minDare Daniel Podcast“The Identical” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://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 minDare Daniel Podcast“Grudge Match” Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DareDanielE001S01.mp3
Grudge Match (2013; Peter Segal) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 1
In Round 1 of the Dare Daniel podcast, fierce rivals Daniel and Corky trade punches on Peter Segal’s Grudge Match, starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro as shells of their former selves. Daniel and Corky go the distance in their discussion, touching on tarnished legacies, the immorality of septuagenarian violence, sparks factories and the true meaning of “butterscotch jellybeans.”
This week’s beer: Fieldwork Brewing’s Jude the Obscure English barleywine (13.3% ABV)
This week’s movie references...2018-04-1735 min