Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel

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...

“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 Coll...

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’...

On 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 obsessi...

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...

https://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 Tu...

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...

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 i...

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-...

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 div...

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 Pa...

w In 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...

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:...

Welcome 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 meantim...

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...

In 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 t...

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...

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 d...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DareDanielE018S01.mp3 Clifford  (1994; Paul Flaherty) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 18 “Shame on you!  Shame on your eyes!” In this hell-spawned episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, the Mayor of Wayward Boys-ville Daniel-ass Barnes and Corky the Scary Rex (or is it Scary the Corky Rex?) hatch a ridiculously elaborate revenge plan against...

Inspirational 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 1...

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 c...

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...

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...

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 (ak...

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 Da...