https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E25.mp3 Sullivan’s Travels (1941; Dir.: Preston Sturges) Canon Fodder Episode 25 Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell review comedy legend Preston Sturges’ legendary comedy about a comedy legend who just wants to impress film critics. Sullivan’s Travels exists…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E24.mp3 Mouchette (1967; Dir.: Robert Bresson) Canon Fodder Episode 24 Daniel and Corky continue their cinematic world tour with a sojourn to the French countryside, which is apparently not as idyllic as those Expedia ads would have you believe. It’s our third round with French mast…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E23.mp3 The Headless Woman (2008; Dir.: Lucrecia Martel) Canon Fodder Episode 23 Daniel and Corky continue their world tour with a stop in Argentina to sample the Salta-flavored cinema of Lucrecia Martel. But will your hosts lose their heads with praise for The Headless Woman, or ar…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E22.mp3 In a Lonely Place (1950; Dir.: Nicholas Ray) Canon Fodder Episode 22 This week, Daniel and Corky are In a Lonely Place, a fine enough place to visit but you wouldn’t want to have an existential crisis there. The jaded and cynical flipside to the lovingly ecstatic portrait of…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E21.mp3 Singin’ in the Rain (1952; Dir.: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly) Canon Fodder Episode 21 Daniel “The Royal Rascal” Barnes and Corky “The Dancing Cavalier” McDonnell gotta review the iconic Singin’ in the Rain. But will this rainbow program put your hosts in a buttercup mood, o…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E20.mp3 In the Mood for Love (2000; Dir.: Wong Kar-wai) Canon Fodder Episode 20 Your hosts are in the mood for a sumptuously beautiful yet melancholy and mysterious masterpiece. Hong Kong legend Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love would seem to fit the bill, but will your hosts love…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E19.mp3 Wanda (1970; Dir.: Barbara Loden) Canon Fodder Episode 19 On this episode, your hosts Wanda, Wanda who, who-oo-ooh, who, who wrote the book of love. Probably not Barbara Loden, who struck the mother Loden of bleakly pathetic romances with her groundbreaking and brilliant 197…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E18.mp3 News from Home (1976; Dir.: Chantal Akerman) Canon Fodder Episode 18 Homesick Belgo-philes Daniel and Corky anxiously await News from Home. But does Akerman’s film have the mussels to keep your hosts from waffling? NEWS FROM HOME FACTS & FIGURES Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Po…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E17.mp3 The Wild Bunch (1969; Dir.: Sam Peckinpah) Canon Fodder Episode 17 Aging cinephile Daniel and Corky face off against Sam Peckinpah’s violently apocalyptic western classic. But did the film drive your hosts wild, or did it get their panties in a bunch? THE WILD BUNCH FACTS & …

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E16.mp3 Taste of Cherry (1997; Dir.: Abbas Kiarostami) Canon Fodder Episode 16 On this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky drive through the streets of Sacramento looking for someone to help them unlock the secrets of Abbas Kiarostami’s Palme d’Or winner. But will your hosts cherish th…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E15.mp3 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943; Dir.: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) Canon Fodder Episode 15 On this week’s episode, old battle axes Daniel and Corky trade war stories with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. But does this decades-spanning intimate epic f…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E14.mp3 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer) Canon Fodder Episode 14 Daniel and Corky revisit Danish dandy Carl Dreyer with this review of his 1928 silent masterpiece. But do your hosts have a passion for Joan of Arc, or are they passin’ on Joan of Arc? THE P…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E13.mp3 Do the Right Thing (1989; Dir.: Spike Lee) Canon Fodder Episode 13 On a temperate day on separate streets in various sections of Sacramento, Corky and Daniel’s agreement about the brilliance of Do the Right Thing smolders and builds until it explodes into canon fire. DO THE …

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E12.mp3 Los Olvidados (1950; Dir.: Luis Buñuel) Canon Fodder Episode 12 Your hardly young but certainly damned hosts Daniel and Corky review Luis Buñuel’s surrealistic neo-Realist classic. LOS OLVIDADOS FACTS & FIGURES Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #157 (tied) Mexican the…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E11.mp3 Pickpocket (1959; Dir.: Robert Bresson) Canon Fodder Episode 11 We wish we knew how to quit you, Robert Bresson! Daniel and Corky get their Bresson on with a review of the French master’s 1959 masterpiece Pickpocket. Will the film steal your host’s hearts, or will it leave t…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E10.mp3 Ordet (1955; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer) Canon Fodder Episode 10 We’ve got Danes on our brains this week on the Canon Fodder podcast! Daniel and Corky review Danish master Carl Dreyer’s acclaimed Ordet, a story of spiritual schisms both internal and external. But can anyone r…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E09.mp3 PlayTime (1967; Dir.: Jacques Tati) Canon Fodder Episode 9 After a string of thematically heavy films, the Random Number Generator Gods decided Daniel and Corky were due for a little playtime. French auteur Jacques Tati’s landmark comedy epic PlayTime, that is! But will your…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E08.mp3 A Man Escaped (1956; Dir.: Robert Bresson) Canon Fodder Episode 8 Daniel and Corky continue their world tour through the masterpieces of cinema by reviewing French auteur Robert Bresson’s gripping prison drama. Will your hosts man up and Canon-ize the film, or will its appea…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E07.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 7 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974; Dir.: Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Mismatched duo Daniel and Corky buck all society’s rules by putting schnitzel on their strudel to review German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats …

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E06.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 6 By the Bluest of Seas (1936; Dir.: Boris Barnet) Shipwrecked cinephiles Daniel and Corky are whisked away to a collectivist paradise by Boris Barnet’s ebullient musical comedy. But will your hosts deem this enchantingly efferves…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E05.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 5 Battleship Potemkin (1925; Dir.: Sergei Eisenstein) Daniel and Corky talk montages, meat, maggots, mutinies and more in their review of the iconic Soviet silent masterpiece Battleship Potemkin. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN FACTS & FIGURE…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_E04.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 4 Bicycle Thieves (1948; Dir.: Vittorio De Sica) Daniel and Corky walk the streets of Sacramento in a futile search for a film more achingly beautiful than the Italian Neo-Realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves. BICYCLE THIEVES FACTS…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_E03.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 3 The Exterminating Angel (1962; Dir.: Luis Buñuel) Daniel and Corky enjoy their descent into madness and despair courtesy of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist satire The Exterminating Angel. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) FACTS & FIGURES …

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E02.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 2 Limite (1931; Dir.: Mário Peixoto) Daniel and Corky sail out to the edges of cinema history to review the legendary and influential Brazilian silent film Limite. This eerie and experimental movie was long thought lost, but a rel…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E01.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 1 Rashomon (1950; Dir.: Akira Kurosawa) From the heroes who brought you Dare Daniel…welcome to Canon Fodder! In the coming months, years, decades and lifetimes, friends and fellow cinephiles Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell will …

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DareDanielE02S08_CAGE-MATCH-OUTRO.mp3 Dare Daniel Season 2/Episode 8 – Dare Daniel: Cage Match wrap-up RELATED CLIPS Follow Dare Daniel on Facebook and Instagram. Be sure to listen, rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Google Podcasts, Castbox an…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DareDanielE02S07_DOG-EAT-DOG.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 7 Dog Eat Dog (2016; Dir.: Paul Schrader) – Episode 130 DOG EAT DOG (2016) FACTS & FIGURES U.S. theatrical debut: Nov. 4, 2016 Worldwide box office: $~200,000 Critics scores: 50 on Rotten Tomatoes; 53 on Metacritic IMDB synopsis: “A cr…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DareDanielE02S06_CAPTAIN-CORELLIS-MANDOLIN.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 6 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2011; Dir.: John Madden) – Episode 129 “It’s a beautifully designed vehicle with no engine.” Daniel and Corky lose their zest for life after watching the badly miscast Nicolas Cage play the t…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DareDanielE128S02_JIU-JITSU.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 5 Jiu Jitsu (2020; Dir.: Dimitri Legothetis) – Episode 128 “Get off my piano.” In their final Cage Match review, Nouveau Shamanic acolytes Daniel and Corky grapple with the un-gentle art of Jiu Jitsu. Cage goes Obi-Yawn Kenobi as a neo-…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DareDanielE127S02_TRESPASS.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 4 Trespass (2011; Dir.: Joel Schumacher) – Episode 127 “You did it, kid! You hit the mother lode!” Rich jerk Daniel and diamond-dealer-on-the-edge Corky go fishing in a bottomless ocean of red herrings with their Cage Match review of Tre…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DareDanielE126S02_LEFT-BEHIND.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 3 Left Behind (2014; Dir.: Vic Armstrong) – Episode 126 “It’s just a bad trip!” Daniel “Dan” “Buck” Barnes and Corky Carpathia continue their Cage Match series with a Rapture-ous review of Left Behind (2014). Cage has little to do but…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DareDanielE125S02_SONNY.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 2 Sonny (2002; Dir.: Nicolas Cage) – Episode 125 “Now I know why Mother calls you ‘a natural born whore.'” Trained pod-stitutes Daniel and Corky continue their Cage Match series by reviewing Cage’s only directorial effort. Sonny is highligh…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DareDanielE124S02_VAMPIRE.mp3 Dare Daniel: Cage Match Vampire’s Kiss (1989; Dir.: Robert Bierman) – Episode 124 “The tortures of the damned!” Your boys are back! Daniel and Corky kick off their Cage Match series of Nicolas Cage movies by reviewing the Nouveau Shamanic maestro as a cockroach-chugging…

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 a…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DareDanielE00S02_Cage-Match-Intro.mp3 Dare Daniel Season 2/Episode 0 – Dare Daniel: Cage Match mini-episode “Their grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids are gonna think this show is the bee’s knees!” Dinosaur trafficker Daniel and Holy Grail enthusiast Corky switch faces to preview their upcoming season, …

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DareDanielRerun21_Dancin-its-On.mp3 Dancin’: It’s On! (2015; Dir.: David Winters) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 21 “You can play baseball, you can play tennis, but you can’t play dancin’!” In this final Best of Dare Daniel rerun, Daniel and Corky are revisitin’ their reviewin’ of the revoltin’ Dancin’…

https://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…

https://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 thei…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DareDanielRerun18_Holidate.mp3 Holidate (2020; Dir.: John Whitesell) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 18 “Did you just compare sex with me to eating slugs?” Daniel and Corky make a holidate to revisit their review of John Whitesell’s shallow rom-com Holidate. HOLIDATE FACTS AND FIGURES Daniel’s craft bee…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DareDanielRerun17_Mac-Me.mp3 Mac and Me (1988; Stewart Raffill) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 17 “Nice teddy bear!” Daniel and Corky courageously revisit the waking nightmare of product placement and alien body horror known as Mac and Me. MAC AND ME FACTS AND FIGURES U.S. theatrical release date: Augu…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DareDanielRerun16_Old-Fashioned.mp3 Old Fashioned – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 16 “Hey there, Stress Boy.” Reformed frat boys Daniel and Corky continue their Best of Dare Daniel series by revisiting Rik Swartzwelder’s Old Fashioned. OLD FASHIONED FACTS AND FIGURES U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 6…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DareDanielRerun15_Collision-Course.mp3 Collision Course (1989; Lewis Teague) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 15 “I’m on your ass!” Daniel and Corky turbocharge their memories to revisit their review of Jay Leno and Noriyuki “Pat” Morita in the racist buddy-cop comedy Collision Course. COLLISION COURSE F…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DareDanielRerun14_Jaws-The-Revenge.mp3 Jaws: The Revenge – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 14 It’s another tickly day in paradise as Daniel and Corky revisit their review of Jaws: The Revenge. JAWS: THE REVENGE FACTS AND FIGURES U.S. theatrical release: July 17, 1987 Domestic box office: $20 million (prod…

https://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 AN…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DareDanielRerun12_Silent-Night-Deadly-Night-Part-2.mp3 Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987; Lee Harry) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 12 Daniel and Corky make your day Garbage Day by revisiting their review of the glorified clip show Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2. SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PAR…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DareDanielRerun11_Cool-As-Ice.mp3 Cool as Ice (1991; David Kellogg) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 11 “I’m gonna go across the street and, uh, schling a schlong.” Daniel and Corky put on their formal parachute pants to revisit their wildly popular review of Vanilla Ice in the wildly unpopular Cool as I…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DareDanielRerun10_Ultraviolet.mp3 Ultraviolet (2006; Kurt Wimmer) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 10 Daniel and Corky bravely subject their mind’s eyes to the memory of Milla Jovovich in the retina-shredding Ultraviolet. ULTRAVIOLET FACTS AND FIGURES U.S. theatrical release date: March 3, 2006 Domestic …

https://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 w…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DareDanielRerun08_Love-Actually.mp3 Love Actually – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 8 In this week’s holiday-themed Best of Dare Daniel, your hosts (and a special guest) revisit the horndog treacle of Love Actually. LOVE ACTUALLY FACTS AND FIGURES U.S. theatrical release date: Nov. 7, 2003 Domestic box of…

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DareDanielRerun07_Saving-Christmas.mp3 Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 7 “It’s putting the ka-ching back in Christmas.” Daniel and Corky take the Christ out of Christmas long enough to review Kirk Cameron and his unique brand of Bible-sanctioned materialism in Saving Chri…