Podd: Dare Daniel Podcast

Vertigo – Canon Fodder Episode 36

29 april 2025 | 61 min

Charulata – Canon Fodder Episode 35

15 april 2025 | 62 min

Happy Together – Canon Fodder Episode 34

25 mars 2025 | 56 min

The Watermelon Woman – Canon Fodder Episode 33

13 mars 2025 | 46 min

Memories of Underdevelopment – Canon Fodder Episode 32

26 februari 2025 | 55 min

The Real “To Be or Not to Be” (1942) – Canon Fodder Episode 31

19 februari 2025 | 49 min

India Song – Canon Fodder Episode 30

28 januari 2025 | 48 min

Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024

14 januari 2025 | 31 min

Canon Fodder Best of 2024

31 december 2024 | 55 min

Sambizanga – Canon Fodder Episode 29

17 december 2024 | 49 min

The Color of Pomegranates – Canon Fodder Episode 28

3 december 2024 | 52 min

Come and See – Canon Fodder Episode 27

19 november 2024 | 70 min

Vampyr (1932) – Canon Fodder Episode 26

6 november 2024 | 47 min

Sullivan’s Travels – Canon Fodder Episode 25

22 oktober 2024 | 68 min

Mouchette – Canon Fodder Episode 24

8 oktober 2024 | 53 min

The Headless Woman – Canon Fodder Episode 23

24 september 2024 | 62 min

In a Lonely Place – Canon Fodder Episode 22

10 september 2024 | 59 min

Singin’ in the Rain – Canon Fodder Episode 21

27 augusti 2024 | 63 min

In the Mood for Love – Canon Fodder Episode 20

13 augusti 2024 | 66 min

Wanda (1970) – Canon Fodder Episode 19

30 juli 2024 | 58 min

News from Home – Canon Fodder Episode 18

16 juli 2024 | 48 min

The Wild Bunch – Canon Fodder Episode 17

2 juli 2024 | 62 min

Taste of Cherry – Canon Fodder Episode 16

18 juni 2024 | 61 min

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – Canon Fodder Episode 15

4 juni 2024 | 62 min

The Passion of Joan of Arc – Canon Fodder Episode 14

21 maj 2024 | 51 min

Do the Right Thing – Canon Fodder Episode 13

7 maj 2024 | 58 min

Los Olvidados – Canon Fodder Episode 12

23 april 2024 | 53 min

Pickpocket (1959) – Canon Fodder Episode 11

9 april 2024 | 51 min

Ordet – Canon Fodder Episode 10

26 mars 2024 | 42 min

PlayTime (1967) – Canon Fodder Episode 9

12 mars 2024 | 71 min

A Man Escaped – Canon Fodder Episode 8

27 februari 2024 | 43 min

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – Canon Fodder Episode 7

13 februari 2024 | 58 min

By the Bluest of Seas – Cannon Fodder Episode 6

30 januari 2024 | 40 min

Battleship Potemkin – Canon Fodder Episode 5

16 januari 2024 | 46 min

Bicycle Thieves – Canon Fodder Episode 4

26 december 2023 | 51 min

The Exterminating Angel – Canon Fodder Episode 3

12 december 2023 | 45 min

Limite (1931) – Canon Fodder Episode 2

28 november 2023 | 48 min

Rashomon – Canon Fodder Episode 1

14 november 2023 | 38 min

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 be randomly working their way through the cinematic canon. For their pilot episode, Daniel and Corky review Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential 1950 masterpiece Rashomon. Or do they? There are a few different takes floating around out there.

Released at a time when film culture was so young that a single movie could change everything forever, Rashomon did exactly that. But is it still relevant to modern audiences? Listen along as Daniel and Corky put the movie to the test on their Slight or Sound scale.

RASHOMON FACTS & FIGURES

Japanese theatrical debut: Aug. 24, 1950 (U.S. theatrical debut: Dec. 16, 1951)

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #41 (tied)

IMDB synopsis: “The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai’s ghost and a woodcutter.”

Ratings: Corky: Sound; Daniel: Sound

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Rashomon

The opening sequence

A “ghastly discovery” in the grove

Cinematography of Rashomon

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

Limite (1931; Dir.: Mario Peixoto)

IMDB synopsis: “Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.”

Our review of Limite comes out on Nov. 28!

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Dare Daniel: Cage Match Wrap-Up

31 oktober 2023 | 54 min

“Dog Eat Dog” Podcast Movie Review

17 oktober 2023 | 59 min

“Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” Podcast Movie Review

3 oktober 2023 | 72 min

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 titular hero of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Despite the beautiful locale and an impressive cast, we’re never given a compelling reason to care about any element of this tedious and soulless awards-grubber. Even the mandolin doesn’t matter!

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss patricide humor, unintentional chemistry and mandolin perverts.

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN FACTS & FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Aug. 17, 2011

Worldwide box office: $62 million (production budget: $57 million)

Critics scores: 28 on Rotten Tomatoes; 36 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.”

This week’s referenced movies: Trespass; Jiu Jitsu; Sonny; Vampire’s Kiss; Shakespeare in Love; Legends of the Fall; Braveheart; The Cider House Rules; The English Patient; The Man for All Seasons; Catch-22; The Handmaiden; The Red Violin; American Psycho; Batman movies; All Quiet on the Western Front; Cold Mountain; Dancin’: It’s On!; The Godfather Part II; When Harry Met Sally; The Steel Helmet; Cabaret; Scent of a Woman; Vanilla Sky; Revolution

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Mandras and Pelagia

“Bella bambina!”

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“Jiu Jitsu” (2020) Podcast Movie Review

19 september 2023 | 65 min

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-hippie martial arts mentor, but cedes the lead to Canadian stuntman, martial artist and charisma black hole Alain Moussi. Jiu Jitsu comes up short on every level, especially the omnipresent fight scenes. Writer-director Legothetis pulls out all the stops, but the film is as empty as the emptiest Hollywood blockbuster, only without the saving grace of production values.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss CGI raspberry jam, Sorkin-esque walk-and-stalks and the fine art of newspaper hats.

JIU JITSU (2020) FACTS & FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Nov. 20, 2020

Worldwide box office: ~$100,000 (production budget: $25 million)

Critics scores: 28 on Rotten Tomatoes; 27 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cosmic Sin; Sophie’s Choice; Star Wars movies; Predator movies; Stargate; Mortal Kombat movies; Krull; Revolution; John Wick movies; Bourne films; Upgrade; Dancin’: It’s On!; Cool as Ice; Marvel movies; The Expendables movies; Left Behind (2014); Heat (1995); Ultraviolet; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Chinatown; The Two Jakes; Top Secret!; China Salesman; The Warrior and the Sorceress; Prometheus; Battlefield: Earth; Southern Comfort; 50 First Dates; Spider-Man: Far from Home

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Jiu Jitsu

Fights!

“This is doable.”

Lancelot at the wedding

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“Trespass” (2011) Podcast Movie Review

5 september 2023 | 64 min

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 Trespass. It’s a mindlessly perfunctory and progressively annoying 1A thriller that barrages you with standoffs, fake-outs, double-crosses and twists, twists, twists!

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss flirty flashbacks, inconvenient crackheads and Australian accent support groups.

TRESPASS (2011) FACTS & FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Oct. 14, 2011

Worldwide box office: $10 million (production budget: $38.7 million)

Critics scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 37 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “As they’re held for ransom, a husband and wife’s predicament grows more dire amid the discovery of betrayal and deception.”

This week’s referenced movies: Batman & Robin; Batman Forever; A Time to Kill; The Client; The Lost Boys; Left Behind (2014); Drive Angry; Season of the Witch; Jack & Jill; Just Go with It; The Shining; The Northman; Uncut Gems; Battlefield: Earth; The Last Temptation of Christ; Inception; Panic Room; Phone Booth; Memento; Airplane!; Mission: Impossible movies; TÁR; Sonny; Vampire’s Kiss

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Trespass (2011)

“Open the safe!”

You gotta be Kidman me!

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“Left Behind” (2014) Podcast Movie Review

22 augusti 2023 | 72 min

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 somehow manages to do less with it, as the great ones so often do. His real-life quest for the Holy Grail led him to this, a paycheck movie in praise of a vengeful God.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss rapture fakeouts, union-busting breakdancers and gasp counters.

LEFT BEHIND (2014) FACTS & FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Oct. 3, 2014

Domestic box office: $27.4 million (production budget: $16 million)

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 12 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “A small group of survivors is left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.”

This week’s referenced movies: Left Behind: The Movie (2000); Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Indiana Jones franchise; Superman franchise; James Bond franchise; Battlefield: Earth; John Wick franchise; Vampire Academy; Sonny; Renfield; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; God’s Not Dead; Let There Be Light; Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist; Jaws: The Revenge; Transylmania; Gotti; The Wicker Man (2007); Ghost Rider; National Treasure: Book of Secrets; Next; Drive Angry; Season of the Witch; Trespass (2012); Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance; Seeking Justice; Snowden; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?; Birdman; Trainspotting; Viva Knievel!; Titanic (1997); Ship of Fools; Voyage of the Damned; Lifeboat; Die Hard; The Rapture

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Left Behind (2014)

And awaaaaaayyy they go!

The passed-on pastor

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“Sonny” (2002) Podcast Movie Review

8 augusti 2023 | 60 min

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 highlighted by a wildly over-the-top performance from Brenda Blethyn that took the hosts’ “Bleth” away.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Horatio Alger prostitutes, cough syrup freakouts and Doonesbury drug designers.

SONNY (2002) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Dec. 27, 2002

Domestic box office: $132,000 (production budget: $4 million)

Critics scores: 22 on Rotten Tomatoes; 31 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “An honorably discharged soldier returns home to New Orleans, hoping to break away from his upbringing as a trained prostitute, but his brothel-madam mother has other expectations.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadfall; The Night of the Hunter; The Natural; The Godfather; Vampire’s Kiss; The Glass Menagerie; Ordinary People; Boogie Nights; Chariots of Fire; Some Like It Hot; Midnight Cowboy; Stick; Malone; Heat; City Heat; Gator; Sharky’s Machine; Wild at Heart; True Romance; Clifford (1994); xXx; Last Exit to Brooklyn; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…; Dogville; The Jerk

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Sonny (2002)

The first 90 seconds of Sonny we got

The first 90 seconds of Sonny we wanted

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“Vampire’s Kiss” Podcast Movie Review

25 juli 2023 | 76 min

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 would-be bloodsucker in the Easton Ellis-adjacent Vampire’s Kiss. Cage makes more choices than E-40, all of them “Yup,” and the result is a feature-length supercut of classic Cage freakouts.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss bat’s-eye-view shots, domestic violence dance routines, James Caan shoulders and fang haggling.

VAMPIRE’S KISS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: June 2, 1989

Domestic box office: $700,000 (production budget: $2 million)

Critics scores: 63 on Rotten Tomatoes; 30 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he’s turning into a vampire.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadfall; Wild at Heart; Next; Knowing; Moonstruck; After Hours; Dancin’: It’s On!; Manhattan; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Peggy Sue Got Married; Eve’s Bayou; I Wanna Dance with Somebody; Les Miserables; Annie Hall; In the Company of Men; The Warriors; Citizen Kane; Nosferatu; Runaway; Joe’s Apartment; Renfield; The Shining; American Psycho; Cool as Ice

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Vampire’s Kiss trailer

Wailing Cage

Cockroach Cage

Charles Foster Kane vs. furniture

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Daniel Talks “Oppenheimer” – Bonus Podcast Movie Review

21 juli 2023 | 23 min

Dare Daniel: Cage Match Introduction

11 juli 2023 | 31 min

“Dancin’: It’s On!” – Best of Dare Daniel

27 juni 2023 | 94 min

Dancers dancing in Dancin': It's On!

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’: It’s On!

DANCIN’: IT’S ON! FACTS AND FIGURES

The Flav-o-rita recipe: 1 oz. jalapeño-infused blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. mezcal; 0.75 oz. Cointreau; 0.75 oz. lime juice; 0.25 oz. pineapple juice; 0.25 oz. agave nectar; 1 dash Angostura bitters; smoked and topped with 1 tsp. Grand Marnier)

U.S. theatrical release date: Oct. 30, 2015

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Gunnar Pearson

Gunnar’s dare: “This is the type of bad movie that you will remember until the day you die. The movie is shot like the world’s most poorly made tourism promo, yet it somehow managed to get into 600 theaters! In other words, I loved this movie and would love to hear you guys talk about it on the podcast.”

IMDB synopsis: “Two young dancers fall in love and eventually work together to win a dance competition.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Golden Bouzouki; Dirty Dancing; Flashdance; Step Up; The Shining; Gone with the Wind; Speed 2: Cruise Control; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Star Wars: Attack of the Clones; Street Fighter (1994); From Justin to Kelly; Beach Blanket Bingo; The Stepford Wives; The Warriors; MacGruber; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Dancin’: It’s On! trailer

“What do you know about dancin’?”

Danny and Shotsy dancin’

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“Can’t Stop the Music” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

13 juni 2023 | 59 min

“Love on a Leash” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

30 maj 2023 | 80 min

Love on a Leash

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 Pearson

Why did Erica dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love on a Leash? “This movie is a triumph of ineptitude. There is no score or soundtrack, nothing makes sense, characters are color-coded, and everything is just hilariously bad. It’s a train wreck from which you can’t look away.”

Why did Gunnar dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love on a Leash? “This is the type of bad movie that you will remember until the day you die.”

IMDB synopsis: “Love takes a furry twist in this slice of romantic comedy. A young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret: by night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of the golden retriever and the friend who gives him a home.”

This week’s referenced movies: Forbidden Kiss; Look Who’s Talking Now; Theodore Rex; Like Father, Like Son; Vice Versa; Love Actually; Psycho (1960); Fargo; Goodfellas; 1917; Teen Wolf (1985); The Room; The Social Network; The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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“Holidate” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

16 maj 2023 | 81 min

Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey in Holidate

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 beer: Moksa Brewing’s Cold Steeped – Geisha (11% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Imperiale Beer Project’s Sweep the Dregs West Coast IPA (7.1% ABV)

Netflix release date: Feb. 28, 2020

Critic scores: 45 on Rotten Tomatoes; 44 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: He Who Shall Not Be Named

Why did Anonymous dare Daniel and Corky to watch Holidate? “I haven’t yet listened to you suffering through the Holiday Movie but was subjected to one the other day that my 23-year-old daughter promised me was “not like all the others.” And she was right. First of all, if it’d been released to theaters, it would’ve been R-Rated. Still bad, still predictable, but there was some enjoyment in there. Could be a Christmas movie, could be an any-holiday movie.”

IMDB synopsis: “Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other’s platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Karate Kid; Norbit; Big Money Rustlas; Holiday Engagement; Malibu’s Most Wanted; Big Momma’s House 2; Big Momma’s House: Like Father, Like Son; ThunderStruck; Destination Wedding; Leaving Las Vegas; Christmas with the Kranks; Goodfellas; Crocodile Dundee; Valentine’s Day; New Year’s Eve; Mother’s Day; La La Land; Dirty Dancing; Crazy, Stupid, Love; The Terminator; Mallrats; Days of Heaven; The VelociPastor; Legally Blonde; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; Magnolia; Black Panther; Love Actually; Harold & Maude; His Girl Friday; There’s Something About Mary

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Holidate

Will she or won’t she shit her pants?

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“Mac and Me” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

3 maj 2023 | 62 min

Image from Mac and Me

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: August 12, 1988

Domestic box office: $6.4 million (production budget: $13 million)

Critic scores: 7 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s Darer: Liam

Why did Liam dare Daniel and Corky to watch Mac and Me? “Actor Paul Rudd has a running bit on Conan O’Brien where he plays a scene from Mac and Me instead of one from the film he’s there to promote. Being a lover of bad movies, the clip definitely spoke to me, but unfortunately, it is the one and only highlight of the film.”

IMDB synopsis: “An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.”

This week’s referenced movies: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Mannequin 2: On the Move; Young Guns; Can’t Buy Me Love; the Star Wars movie franchise; Nosferatu; Pan’s Labyrinth; The Green Mile; Lord of the Rings movie franchise; In the Mouth of Madness; The Blues Brothers; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; They Live; Paper Moon; The Piano; Duel; The Shining; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Screwball; Ishtar; Ghostbusters; Exorcist II: The Heretic; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Men in Black; The Silence of the Lambs; Better Off Dead; Grease; Sleepaway Camp; JFK; Rawhead Rex; China Salesman; Amadeus

Ratings for Mac and Me: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Full McDonald’s dance scene

The original ending where Eric gets shot vs. The theatrical cut

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“Old Fashioned” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

18 april 2023 | 71 min

Rik Swartzwelder in Old Fashioned

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, 2015

Domestic box office: $1.9 million (production budget: $600,000)

Critics scores: 17 on Rotten Tomatoes; 29 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Rachael Legg

Rachael’s dare: “Old Fashioned was filmed in my hometown, and so when I was 15, I became an extra in the film. But when I watched it for the first time at the premiere, I knew that I had been a part of something terrible. After watching Old Fashioned, I have concluded that Swartzwelder made this movie because he really wanted to write himself as a good Christian man, and then forced an entire cast of actors to comment on his godliness for 115 minutes. Good luck.”

IMDB synopsis: “A reformed frat boy opens an antique store in a college town and falls for the free-spirited girl who moves into the apartment above his shop. In time, this unlikely pair fall into a traditional courtship.”

This week’s referenced movies: Dancin’: It’s On!; Jaws 3-D; Orca; God’s Not Dead; God’s Not Dead 2; Theodore Rex; Cosmic Sin; Deadly Attraction; Warcraft; Psycho; Meet John Doe; Diner; Sleepless in Seattle; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Little Shop of Horrors; Let the Right One In; The Exorcist; Fifty Shades of Grey; 365 Days

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Old Fashioned trailer

Clay’s theory

Swartzwelder speaks

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“Collision Course” – Best of Dare Daniel

4 april 2023 | 49 min

“Jaws: The Revenge” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

21 mars 2023 | 64 min

“Rawhead Rex” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

7 mars 2023 | 40 min

“Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2” – Best of Dare Daniel

21 februari 2023 | 64 min

“Cool as Ice” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

7 februari 2023 | 82 min

Vanilla Ice on a yellow motorcycle in the movie Cool as Ice.

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 Ice.

COOL AS ICE FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 18, 1991

Domestic box office: $1.2 million (production budget: $6 million)

Critic scores: 7 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s Darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather S. dare Daniel and Corky to watch Cool as Ice? “Because you need to drop that zero and get with a hero. But this one might be too awful for any human consumption. The whole movie is a cringe-fest, it’s like trying to watch The Office‘s Michael Scott attempt to lead a diversity workshop. If you choose this movie, I cannot be legally held responsible if you roll your eyes so hard in your head that they get stuck. You have been warned.”

IMDB synopsis: “A rap-oriented remake of The Wild One (1953), with heavy emphasis on the fact that Vanilla Ice has assumed the Marlon Brando role.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Ridiculous 6; Schindler’s List; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; xXx; The Fast and the Furious franchise; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Grease; Down by Law; A Christmas Story 2; Seabiscuit; Enter the Dragon; Bad Boys; Fifty Shades of Grey movie franchise; Having a Wild Weekend; Crossroads; Elvis movies; Say Anything; Bio-Dome; The Island of Dr. Moreau

Ratings for Cool as Ice: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

“Drop that zero and get with the hero.”

John “Johnny” Van Owen motorcycle montage

“Ninja Rap” scene from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

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“Ultraviolet” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

24 januari 2023 | 56 min

Milla Jovovich riding a motorcycle in Ultraviolet

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 box office: $18.5 million (production budget: $30 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 18 on Metacritic

This week’s Darer: Marco Cabodi

Why did Marco dare Daniel and Corky to watch Ultraviolet? “Nonsensical Milla Jovovich action vehicle that alternates between incredibly ambitious and incomprehensibly stupid. It’s an amazing mix of everything being almost not as awful as it is. It’s admirably unwatchable.”

IMDB synopsis: “A beautiful hæmophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cutthroat Island; Birth; Equilibrium; Sphere; The Recruit; Law Abiding Citizen; Salt; Total Recall (2012); Point Break (2015); The Matrix franchise; Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion; 16 Blocks; Eight Below; Captain Marvel; A Clockwork Orange; Sin City; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; Spy Kids franchise; The Spirit; 300; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse; Fargo; I Am Legend; Ronin; Sleepaway Camp; Heat; the Blade franchise; Kill Bill: Vol. 1; Little Shop of Horrors (1986); Gotti; the Resident Evil franchise; The Messenger; Dazed and Confused

Ratings for Ultraviolet: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

A typically unwatchable fight scene

The unusually unwatchable motorcycle chase scene

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“Fateful Findings” Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

10 januari 2023 | 79 min

Neil Breen uncovering corruption in Fateful Findings.

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 talks about bad movies must at one point review a film by true American auteur Neil Breen. Fateful Findings is a romantic drama . . . I guess? Breen is the writer, director, lead actor, editor, set dresser and about a hundred other things, and he is awful at all of them.”

IMDB synopsis: “A computer-scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend, hacks into government databases, and faces the dire and fateful consequences of the mystical actions he obtained as a child.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadly Attraction; Old Fashioned; The Room; Love on a Leash; Dangerous Men; Rebel without a Cause; Skullduggery; The Goonies; The Long Goodbye; Rawhead Rex; Memento; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Jeremiah Johnson; The Godfather Part II; JFK

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Fateful Findings

How not to drink coffee

The WTF ending

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“Love Actually” Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

27 december 2022 | 101 min

Andrew Lincoln holding a sign for Keira Knightley in Love Actually

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 office: $59.7 million (production budget: $40-45 million)

Critic scores: 64 on Rotten Tomatoes; 55 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love Actually? “It’s that magical time of year when every person checks into Facebook to share they are watching Love Actually. A true turd-fest full if cringe-y dialogue, vapid, horrible characters, and one of the more embarrassing dance scenes I can recall. It bewilders me that this movie has sustained such love through the years. It’s like Lifetime wrote a Christmas movie but could afford better actors. Merry Christmas!”

IMDB synopsis: “Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.”

This week’s referenced movies: Bula Quo!; God’s Not Dead; Renaissance Man; Battlefield: Earth; Stay Hungry; Pumping Iron; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers; Pulp Fiction; An American Werewolf in Paris; The Music Man; Heaven’s Gate; the Bridget Jones movies; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); The Long Good Friday; Die Hard; The Princess Bride; Rear Window; Driller Killer; Titanic (1997); Ghostbusters (1984); Say Anything; Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Bugsy Malone; The Quiet Man

Ratings for Love Actually: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare; Gav – Double Dare

“To me you are perfect”

The Dancing Prime Minister

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“Saving Christmas” Best of Dare Daniel Podcast

13 december 2022 | 57 min

Kirk Cameron in Saving Christmas

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 Christmas.

NEW DARES

The Cat (Doug Glassman)

Knowing (Courtney)

SAVING CHRISTMAS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Nov. 14, 2014

Domestic box office gross: $2.8 million (production budget: $500,000)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 18 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Gav from the Films on Trial podcast

Why did Gav dare Daniel and Corky to watch Saving Christmas? “Hi, guys! Listening to you heathens hilariously bash that Bible-bashing classic God’s Not Dead, I thought that you may want to review a real test of willpower, in the form of the cinematic turd that is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas. I stumbled upon it last year, and I still haven’t fully recovered. I guarantee that if you watch it in December, it will ruin your Christmas. Apologies a thousand times. I hope we can still be friends after this?”

IMDB synopsis: “His annual Christmas party faltering thanks to his cynical brother-in-law, former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron attempts to save the day by showing him that Jesus Christ remains a crucial component of the over-commercialized holiday.”

This week’s referenced movies: Dark City; Gods of Egypt; I, Robot; Left Behind (2014); The Legend of Hercules; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014); Transformers: Age of Extinction; the Saw movies; Loose Change; Lord of the Rings movies; The Jerk; It’s a Wonderful Life; A Christmas Carol; Coming to America; Breakin’; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Zero Dark Thirty; Hollywood Shuffle; Ultraviolet; The Warrior and the Sorceress

Ratings for Saving Christmas: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Family Force Five hip-hop dance sequence

Christmas cups and conspiracy theories

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“Battlefield Earth” Best of Dare Daniel

29 november 2022 | 75 min

John Travolta and Kelly Preston as aliens in Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth (2000; Roger Christian) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 6

“Holy amazing shit, John Travolta.”

Daniel and Corky conclude Travolt-ember with the beloved Battlefield Earth, the first in their Best of Dare Daniel series of reruns.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss learning machines, corporate crapheads, ironic punishments, intergalactic bankers and gastro-extermination sequences.

BATTLEFIELD EARTH FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: May 12, 2000

Domestic box office: $21.5 million (production budget: $75 million)

Critic scores: 3 on Rotten Tomatoes; 9 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Michael Bagamery

Why did Michael dare Daniel and Corky to watch Battlefield Earth? “Battlefield Earth has been a bumper crop for nearly every bad movie fan out there. Can you find some more unscathed parts of its body’s flesh? Can you torture it even more uniquely?”

IMDB synopsis: “It’s the year 3000 A.D.; the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, whom are unaware that their ‘man-animals’ are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Butcher’s Wife; Warcraft; National Treasure; Pulp Fiction; Get Shorty; Michael; Phenomenon; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; The Butterfly Effect; The Art of War; The Whole Nine Yards; Best Worst Movie; Moment by Moment; Staying Alive; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Cloud Atlas; Revolution; the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise; L4yer Cake; Ultraviolet; Blade Runner; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Two Moon Junction; Spartacus; various King Kong movies; The Dirty Dozen; Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Fanatic; The Warrior and the Sorceress

Ratings for Battlefield Earth: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Psychlo laugh supercut

“Have you blown a head gasket?”

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“Two of a Kind” Podcast Movie Review

15 november 2022 | 57 min

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Two of a Kind

Two of a Kind – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 123

“It’s a movie forgotten by time, and I look forward to forgetting it myself.”

Kooky inventor Daniel Barnes and flirty bank teller Corky McDonnell get together to save the world from the abysmal nothing-burgerTwo of a Kind. Grease stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (RIP) unfortunately reunite for this chaotic and monotonous mix of fluffy romance and apocalyptic comedy.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss armoire obsessions, edible sunglasses, Kafkaesque mistrials and skin-crawling sex scenes.

TWO OF A KIND FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Dec. 16, 1983

Domestic box office: $23 million (production budget: $14 million)

Critics scores: 18 on Rotten Tomatoes; 5 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Darcey Self

Why did Darcey dare Daniel and Corky to watch Two of a Kind? “When God decides to destroy Earth, four angels aim to redeem mankind through a young man and woman with their own troubles.”

IMDB synopsis: “It’s my favorite time of the year, Travoltember, and what better way to celebrate than with the cinema classic where Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta dance and sing in the halls of high schoooo (insert record scratch). Oh wait wait wait – not that one. THIS “classic” is the one where they have matching mullet haircuts. Where they wear ridiculously large shoulder pads, cyborg sunglasses and fake mustaches. Please enjoy Two of a Kind. You are welcome.”

This week’s referenced movies: Grease; Network; Saturday Night Fever; Moment by Moment; Urban Cowboy; Blow Out; Staying Alive; Xanadu; The Lonely Lady; Rabbit Test; Gremlins; The Saint; Dog Day Afternoon; Inception; Serpico; Midnight Run; Misery; Alien; Ghostbusters; Ryan’s Babe; Spider-Man movies; Dancin’: It’s On!; The Conqueror; Pulp Fiction; Perfect; Look Who’s Talking movies; Broken Arrow (1996); Get Shorty; Battlefield: Earth; Michael; Phenomenon; The Poison Rose; Gotti

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Two of a Kind promo trailer

Music video for “Twist of Fate”

Home invasion meet-cute

Acting class freakout

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“The Exorcist III” Podcast Movie Review

31 oktober 2022 | 64 min

George C. Scott in Exorcist III

The Exorcist III – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 122

“It’s just a bunch of peas and anchovies.”

Daniel and Corky do their shouty best to keep up with George C. Scott in William Peter Blatty’s so-underappreciated-it’s-almost-overappreciated The Exorcist III. Blatty crafts a shockingly effective slow creep that is unfortunately undermined by an over-the-top fan service ending.

THE EXORCIST III FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Aug. 17, 1990

Critics scores: 59 on Rotten Tomatoes; 48 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Christopher Reeves

Christopher’s dare: “Compared to Exorcist II this movie is The Godfather, but still has enough in it to make you ask what the hell is that and why? Plus, it’s got George C Scott at his shouty best giving EVERYONE crap. Mental hospital shenanigans, creepy old people and invisible radios are just a few of the joys you’ll discover. And the best reason of all…no locusts!”

IMDB synopsis: “A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Exorcist; Exorcist II: The Heretic; My Blue Heaven; The Ninth Configuration; Hocus Pocus; Bright; The Dark Tower; Suburbicon; Apocalypse Now; Grumpy Old Man; The Odd Couple; Spaceballs; Wings of Desire; The Silence of the Lambs; Strait-Jacket; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; the Lord of the Rings films; Dirty Harry; The French Connection; Midnight Express; Hardcore

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

The Exorcist III theatrical trailer

The hospital corridor scene

Final confrontation

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“Hocus Pocus” Podcast Movie Review

18 oktober 2022 | 78 min

Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus (1993)

Hocus Pocus – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 121

“Max likes your yabbos.”

Daniel and Corky light a Febreze to clear the air after reviewing Bette Midler in the inexplicably beloved Hocus Pocus. This sloppily written, egregiously unfunny Halloween comedy about three Stooges-esque witches somehow became a beloved holiday tradition.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss circus movie fetishes, powdered wig lechery and inconsistent zap magic.

HOCUS POCUS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: July 16, 1993

Critics scores: 39 on Rotten Tomatoes; 43 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Allison Kinnear

Allison’s dare: “I watched it for the first time this year and yikes. I know it is a beloved film for many, but since you guys ruined Love Actually for me, I figure you can ruin this streaming turd for others.”

IMDB synopsis: “A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.”

This week’s referenced movies: Newsies; High School Musical movies; Michael Jackson’s This Is It; The Wedding Planner; Company Business; The Princess Switch; The Boondock Saints; The Greatest Show on Earth; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; Caddyshack; E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial; Ghost World; American Beauty; Eyes Wide Shut; Barry Lyndon; The Shape of Water; Hellboy; Pan’s Labyrinth; The Wizard of Oz; The Goonies; The Iron Giant; The Big Sleep; Top Gun: Maverick; Spider-Man; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Village of the Damned; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Hocus Pocus

“I Put a Spell on You”

Max vs. Jay & Ice

“Come Little Children”

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“Strait-Jacket” (1964) Podcast Movie Review

4 oktober 2022 | 61 min

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Joan Crawford in Strait-Jacket (1964)

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 an ax murderess returning home from the asylum.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss hags-ploitation movies, air stabbing, Bosley Crowther claptrap and Scare Daniel in space.

STRAIT-JACKET (1964) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Jan. 8, 1964

Critics scores: 88 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Ryan L. Terry

Ryan’s dare: “After Baby Jane and before Dunaway would re-immortalize her in Mommie Dearest, THE legendary Joan Crawford stars in Strait-Jacket as Lucy Harbin, a woman who came home to find her husband in bed with his lover, then lobbed off both their heads! She is sent to an insane asylum for twenty years, and then returns home haunted by the ghosts of her past. I know that it has a high RT score, but I am not entirely sure what I think of this movie. Since I cannot make up my mind about this one, I am daring you guys to watch it!”

IMDB synopsis: “After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.”

This week’s referenced movies: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Mommie Dearest; Matinee; Psycho; Friday the 13th: A New Beginning; The Three Faces of Eve; The Women (1939); Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Napoleon Dynamite; Cool Hand Luke; Sleepaway Camp; Chinatown; Ryan’s Babe; Gaslight; The Naked Gun

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Strait-Jacket (1964)

A convenient ax

Flirting Lucy

Joan on the phone in The Women

John Goodman in the Castle-inspired Matinee

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“The Next 365 Days” Podcast Movie Review

20 september 2022 | 70 min

Massimo and Laura in The Next 365 Days

The Next 365 Days – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 119

“Fuck society.”

Daniel and Corky bid farewell to beloved toxic couple Massimo and Laura with their review of The Next 365 Days. Endless, pointless and utterly lacking in any new story developments, The Next 365 Days offers even less than its vapid predecessors.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss brunch montages, air humping, drone fatigue and yurt sex.

THE NEXT 365 DAYS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. streaming debut: August 19, 2022

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Dean Longenecker

Dean’s dare: “You’ve watched the first two–unfortunately, so did I–so you MUST watch the third. As with the last movie, I had absolutely no idea where the actual plot was going until the end. Lots of loud music, softcore sex, bad acting and some good cinematography. That person on the crew actually gave a damn about trying to do something good. Director and screenwriter sure as hell didn’t.”

IMDB synopsis: “Laura and Massimo’s relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues and jealousy while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.”

This week’s referenced movies: 365 Days; 365 Days: This Day; Viva Knievel!; Jaws: The Revenge; Cosmic Sin; Megaforce; Men in Black; The Birdcage; Half Baked; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Saturday Night Fever; Citizen Kane; Pulp Fiction; the Fifty Shades trilogy; Gerry; Q The Winged Serpent; The Double Life of Veronique; The Godfather

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

The Next 365 Days trailer

Laura interrupts Massimo’s “meeting”

Funeral fakeout

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“Ryan’s Babe” Podcast Movie Review

6 september 2022 | 75 min

“Grunt! The Wrestling Movie” Podcast Review

23 augusti 2022 | 51 min

Grunt! The Wrestling Movie

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 Corky discuss arm transplants, smart marks and fake wrestler fan club rankings.

GRUNT! THE WRESTLING MOVIE FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. release: 1985

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

Why did Mr. Positivity dare Daniel and Corky to watch Grunt! The Wrestling Movie? “A low-budget, mid-80s mockumentary that highlights the wackiness of pro wrestling. The opening sequence is amazing. After that, it gets a little uneven but it’s a lot of fun. There are a lot of great cameos by real wrestlers, and the movie manages to satirize the sport without being insulting.”

IMDB synopsis: “A documentary crew sets out to unravel one of professional wrestling’s most closely guarded secrets: is former champion “Mad Dog” Joe DeCurso now wrestling as The Mask?”

This week’s referenced movies: Norbit; Big Money Hustlas; Burn Hollywood Burn; The Magnificent Ambersons; Take the Money and Run; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Raging Bull; Best in Show; Biker Boyz; Assassins; Risky Business; …And God Created Woman (1988); Minions; Rocky V; Ready to Rumble; The Karate Kid; Think Big

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Grunt! The Wrestling Movie

Wally George meets The Mask

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“Burn Hollywood Burn” Movie Review

9 augusti 2022 | 72 min

Eric Idle in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 116

“That is not good. That’s bad.”

Daniel and Corky get released from the Keith Moon Psychiatric Facility long enough to review the impossibly unfunny comedy An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn. Joe Eszterhas’ lame, career-killing non-movie is 85 minutes of an over-validated, out-of-touch, inexplicably bitter screenwriter grinding an ax and making O.J. jokes.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pasta guys, truck drivers with Tourette’s, bad Casey Kasam impressions and head-scratching Cliff Robertson references.

BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release: Feb. 27, 1998

Domestic box office: $45,000 (production budget: $10 million)

Critics scores: 8 on Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB synopsis: “When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he’s an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal.”

This week’s referenced movies: Showgirls; F.I.S.T.; Basic Instinct; Jade; The Jagged Edge; Flashdance; Love Story; The Hospital; Silver Streak; Catchfire/Backtrack; Rabbit Test; the Rocky movies; This Is Spinal Tap; The Crow: Wicked Prayer; Wolf of Wall Street; The Third Man; Let There Be Light; Moment by Moment; My Dinner with Andre; Mission: Impossible; Barton Fink

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

The first three minutes of this turd

Siskel & Ebert’s review

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“Let There Be Light” Podcast Movie Review

26 juli 2022 | 76 min

Kevin Sorbo and Sam Sorbo in Let There Be Light

Let There Be Light – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 115

“Like it or not, I’ll be praying for you.”

Digital missionaries Daniel and Corky stop supporting terrorists long enough to review the proudly proselytizing Let There Be Light. The film stars Kevin Sorbo as Sol Harkens, a world-famous atheist lecturer with all the stereotypical supermodel and sports car trappings of the anti-faith debate circuit. Let There Be Light is an uproariously inept yet creepily paranoid celebration of one particular faith ultimately more fixated on ISIS than Jesus.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss atheist talk shows, heathen book parties and near-death paparazzi.

LET THERE BE LIGHT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release: Oct. 27, 2017

Domestic box office: $7.2 million

Critics scores: 30 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Ben Parker

Why did Ben dare Daniel and Corky to watch Let There Be Light? “Because it is literally one of the most hilariously bad faith-based films I have ever seen.”

IMDB synopsis: “An atheist goes through a near-death experience in a car accident before converting to Christianity.”

This week’s referenced movies: God’s Not Dead; Spider-Man movies; Left Behind movies; Blood Simple; Dr. Strangelove; Biker Boyz; Assassins; The Dark Crystal; Dancin’: It’s On!; The Silence of the Lambs; Religulous; Glengarry Glen Ross; Breakfast at Tiffany’s; My Cousin Vinny; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Old Fashioned; From Justin to Kelly; The Godfather

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Let There Be Light trailer

Davey and the memory tunnel

“Have you made your decision for Christ?”

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“TMNT: Out of the Shadows” Podcast Movie Review

12 juli 2022 | 66 min

Megan Fox and mutants in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 114

“I can judge it, I will judge it and I do judge it…as bad.”

Pizza enthusiasts Daniel and Corky emerge from the shadows to review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. This 2016 sequel is a big empty nothing constantly recapping its own empty nothingness. It’s $135 million worth of going through the motions filmmaking smothered in incessant and unfunny quips.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Grand Central Station schoolgirl gangs, nunchaku trucks, Carmelo cameos and mecha-guffins.

TMNT: OUT OF THE SHADOWS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release: June 3, 2016

Domestic box office: $245 million (production budget: $135 million)

Critics scores: 38 on Rotten Tomatoes; 40 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Colin Williams

Why did Colin dare Daniel and Corky to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows? “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. It’s been so hot this summer and I haven’t been drinking enough water and I’m dehydrated and it made me light-headed and I chose to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and it’s so bad. It’s so bad and now I need you to know how bad it is by watching it. I’m sorry.”

IMDB synopsis: “The Turtles get into another battle with their enemy the Shredder, who has acquired new allies: the mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady and the alien being Krang.”

This week’s referenced movies: the Transformers films; the Spider-Man movies; Q: The Winged Serpent; The Crow: Wicked Prayer; The Dark Knight; The Warriors; Scarface (1983); Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker; the Avengers movies; Justice League; Warcraft; The Breakfast Club; The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Bad News Bears; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films; the X-Men movies

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

TMNT: Out of the Shadows trailer

Turtles vs. Bebop & Rocksteady

Turtles vs. Krang

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“Saturn 3” Podcast Movie Review

28 juni 2022 | 56 min

Hector and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3

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: Feb. 15, 1980

Domestic box office: $10 million (production budget: $9 million)

Critics scores: 25 on Rotten Tomatoes; 9 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: [Redacted]

Why did [Redacted] dare Daniel and Corky to watch Saturn 3? “I don’t think you’ve yet reviewed a bad science fiction movie, of which there are so many choices. Going back to 1980: Saturn 3. Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel — what could be wrong with that combination? And Kirk Douglas does a nude scene!”

IMDB synopsis: “Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot robot.”

This week’s referenced movies: Shining Through; the Harry Potter movies; the Star Wars movies; Singin’ in the Rain; Funny Face; Charade; A Clockwork Orange; Superman; Superman II; Lucky Lady; Raise the Titanic!; Can’t Stop the Music; Ishtar; Apocalypse Now; Bad Lieutenant; The Magnificent Seven; Deathtrap; Viva Knievel!; The Iron Giant; Eastern Promises; Sliver; Clifford; 365 Days; Ex Machina; Grease; Aliens

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Saturn 3 theatrical trailer

Hector vs. Farrah

Deleted Blue Dreamers

Harvey Keitel remembers Saturn 3

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“Biker Boyz” Podcast Movie Review

14 juni 2022 | 69 min

Biker Boyz (2003)

Biker Boyz – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 112

“I don’t know what the hell your fool ass was trying to prove, but whatever it was, you proved it!”

King of Cali cronies Daniel and Corky rev down to review the high-speed, low-energy biker movie Biker Boyz. This underdeveloped outline of a movie concerns motorcycle hustlers striving to become the “King of Cali” for reasons we can never know.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Kid Rock tribunals, bikini bike wash fundraisers and smoking guys in Fresno.

BIKER BOYZ FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s movie-themed cocktail: Smoke (1.25 oz. Templeton Rye; 0.5 oz. Johnnie Walker Black; 0.25 oz. Warbringer Mesquite-Smoked whiskey; 0.5 oz. Midtown Spirits Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur; 1 tsp. vanilla bean syrup; 2 dashes El Guapo Chicory Pecan bitters; stir, smoke and strain over ice; garnish with a flamed orange peel and top with 1 dash Highland Park Viking Honour)

U.S. theatrical release: Jan. 31, 2003

Critics scores: 23 on Rotten Tomatoes; 36 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Samantha Kidd

Why did Samantha dare Daniel and Corky to watch Biker Boyz? “I first saw this movie as a teen and thought it was THE SHIT, but I watched it again a few years ago and was shocked at how truly atrocious it is. I still love it for the nostalgia, but I’ve yet to meet any other human being or has or is willing to watch this piece of trash. I don’t know how I can adequately describe both my love and hatred of this movie and am dying for someone else to experience it, so I dare you guys to give it a watch!”

IMDB synopsis: “A son of the leader of a legendary group of an urban biker gang tries to retain his championship title.”

This week’s referenced movies: Skullduggery; Smoke; Blue in the Face; Final Destination 2; The Recruit; the Fast and the Furious films; Fight Club; Viva Knievel!; Gangs of New York; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; Backdraft 2; Saturday Night Fever; 8 Mile; Deadly Attraction; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

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“365 Days: This Day” Podcast Movie Review

31 maj 2022 | 70 min

Anna-Maria Sieklucka and Michele Morrone in 365 Days: This Day

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 twin brother.

365 DAYS: THIS DAY FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s movie-themed cocktail: Love Grows (1.5 oz. reposado tequila; 0.25 oz. blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. mezcal; 0.75 oz. pineapple juice; 0.75 oz. rosemary syrup; 0.5 oz. lemon juice; stir, strain and serve over ice; top with 1 dash Fee Brothers Old Fashioned bitters and garnish with rosemary sprig)

U.S. streaming debut: April 27, 2022

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 8 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “Laura and Massimo are back and stronger than ever. But Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man bidding for Laura’s heart complicate the lovers’ lives.”

This week’s referenced movies: 365 Days; Viva Knievel!; Fifty Shades trilogy; Fateful Findings; Transformers: The Last Knight; Goodfellas; Star Wars movie franchise; Beyond the Seventh Door; Little Shop of Horrors; The Grifters; The Godfather

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

365 Days: This Day trailer

Top golf

On the beach

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“365 Days” – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun

17 maj 2022 | 60 min

“Viva Knievel!” Podcast Movie Review

3 maj 2022 | 76 min

Gene Kelly and Evel Knievel in Viva Knievel!

Viva Knievel! – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 110

“Viva Corky!”

We celebrate Corky’s birthday by squeezing into our iconic stars-and-bars jumpsuits and reviewing Evel Knievel in Viva Knievel! It’s as moth-eaten a movie as you’ll ever see, with only the messianic egomania of its star to differentiate it from a thousand other duds.

Daniel and Corky discuss orphanage break-ins, helmet crowns and Stratocycle suicides.

VIVA KNIEVEL! FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s movie-themed cocktail: Tommy Wallbanger (1.0 oz. Cazadores blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. Corralejo reposado tequila; 0.5 oz. El Dorado 15-Year Rum; 0.5 oz. Galliano L’Autentico; 1.0 oz. lime juice; 2.5 oz. orange juice; 1 tsp. agave nectar; 2 dashes El Guapo Fuego bitters; 1 dash El Guapo Polynesian Kiss bitters; shake over ice and strain into a glass filled with ice)

U.S. theatrical release: June 1, 1977

Critics scores: 17 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Dean Longenecker

Dean’s dare: “In honor of Corky, I subjected myself to this 1977 dud. I can’t in good faith recommend this to anyone unless they like being tortured. Everything that’s bad about 70s movies is in here. Feel sorry for the cast, which is pretty good for the time, having to be involved with this movie.”

IMDB synopsis: “He’s powered his Harley over cars, trucks, lions, infernos and plummeted headlong into a canyon. But if the mob has its way, his next incredible leap will land him six feet under.”

This week’s referenced movies: Evel Knievel (1971); Jaws: The Revenge; Cosmic Sin; Megaforce; Singin’ in the Rain; The Babe Ruth Story; The Dark Crystal; The Naked Gun movies; Assassins (1995); Rabbit Test; Brewster McCloud; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Omen; Dumb and Dumber; The Wedding Planner; The Manchurian Candidate (1962); Raiders of the Lost Ark; Beverly Hills Cop; Gymkata; Raging Bull; Airplane!

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Viva Knievel!

Evel at the orphanage

Caesar’s Palace crash

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“The Crow: Wicked Prayer” Podcast Movie Review

19 april 2022 | 55 min

The Crow: Wicked Prayer – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 109

“The stupidity of this movie compounds every single second that you watch it.”

Daniel and Corky have no sympathy for the devil after watching Edward Furlong as avenging bird Jimmy Cuervo in this wretched straight-to-video sequel. A film that tries too hard while making no effort whatsoever, The Crow: Wicked Prayer concerns an ex-con tragically caught between wealthy fundamentalist Christian Aztecs and Satanist miners. No, seriously, it does. If that’s not enough terrible, Tara Reid plays an eye-slicing serial killer shaman redeemed through the power of prayer.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Stephen Tobol-ouchies, gas pump farts, zap flashbacks and peyote-dusted deviled ham.

THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s movie-themed cocktail: Mai Tai the Knot (1.5 oz. Campari; 0.75 oz. Appleton Estate rum; 0.5 oz. Cointreau; 1.0 oz. lime juice; 1.0 oz. Small Hand Foods Orgeat; a few drops of El Guapo Cuban bitters; shake and strain over crushed ice; garnish with mint)

U.S. theatrical release: June 3, 2005

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Caroline Hostetler

Caroline’s dare: “There is so much to say about this movie, yet I am speechless. Like all the greats, this film raises more questions than it answers. And most of those questions are ‘What the fuck?’”

IMDB synopsis: “On his way to becoming an immortal demon, a gang leader orchestrates the murder of an ex-con and his girlfriend.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Crow movie franchise; The New Mutants; A Christmas Story 2; Ava; Six String Samurai; Kill Bill movies; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Norma Rae; Gigli; Star Wars movies

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

The Crow: Wicked Prayer trailer

Hung out to die

Zap flashbacks

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“Rabbit Test” Podcast Movie Review

5 april 2022 | 68 min

Joan Rivers and Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test

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, Paul Lynde impressions, dead rabbits and sister shtupers.

RABBIT TEST FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s movie-themed cocktail: POTUS (1.5 oz. Flor de Cana white rum; 0.5 oz. Dolin Blanc vermouth; 0.25 oz. Dolin Dry vermouth; 0.5 oz. Cointreau; 1/2 tsp. simple syrup; 2 dashes Angostura orange bitters; stir with ice and strain into a glass with no ice; orange peel garnish)

U.S. theatrical debut: Feb. 17, 1978

This week’s darer: Johnny Flores

Johnny’s dare: “Just seconds after I discovered this movie and read the synopsis, I said out loud, ‘Oh, shit! I have to dare Corky and Daniel to watch this movie!’ Billy Crystal, making his film debut, stars as a young man who becomes pregnant after losing his virginity. Joan Rivers directed, co-wrote and partially self-funded the movie. I know in my heart that this movie is uncut, pure Dare Daniel-ness.”

IMDB synopsis: “Lionel’s life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table…he becomes the world’s first pregnant man.”

This week’s referenced movies: Fathers’ Day; Runaway; The Godfather; The Wedding Planner; Junior; The Wild Bunch; The Killing; True Grit (1969); Mikey and Nicky; A Slightly Pregnant Man; Airplane!; The Bellboy; Mr. Saturday Night; City Slickers; Rushmore; Deadly Attraction; The Gods Must Be Crazy; Spookies; Kentucky Fried Movie; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Revolution; Dude Bro Party Massacre III; Memento

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Rabbit Test

Rabbit Test TV spots

Dr. Paul Lynde

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Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 4

22 mars 2022 | 70 min

“Jaws: The Revenge” Podcast Movie Review

8 mars 2022 | 71 min

The shark attacks in Jaws: The Revenge

Jaws: The Revenge – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 107

“It is a cool, calm, tickly day.”

Sea snail scientists Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell take their revenge against Joseph Sargent’s slapdash sequel Jaws: The Revenge. Located a million light-leagues away from the elegant terror of Spielberg’s 1975 classic, this fourth entry turns the shark into a standard-issue 1980s slasher villain.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss all-time tomato thieves, science sticks, bleeding boats and Hoagie dinghys.

JAWS: THE REVENGE FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s movie-themed cocktail: Hoagie’s Grog (2 oz. Mount Gay Eclipse rum; 0.25 oz. Rhum Barbancourt 5 Star; 0.5 oz. Coco Real Passionfruit syrup; 0.67 oz. lime juice; 1 tsp. orange juice; 1/2 tsp. cinnamon syrup; 2 dashes El Guapo Polynesian Kiss bitters; 1 dash Angostura bitters; shake over ice and strain, serve without ice)

U.S. theatrical release: July 17, 1987

Domestic box office: $20 million (production budget: $23 million)

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 15 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Dean Longenecker

Dean’s dare: “Jaws 3D is happy this movie exists. God awful movie. I’m embarrassed that a Great White Shark can’t just enjoy the Bahamas without be accused of stalking. Can anyone say profiling? Allie, The Last Starfighter and the guy who directed New Jack City are there to help Ellen Brody kill the shark. Just watch Orca if you want a good fish revenge story.”

IMDB synopsis: “Chief Brody’s widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.”

This week’s referenced movies: Ghostbusters; Speed 2: Cruise Control; The Trip; The Italian Job (1969); Cosmic Sin; Megaforce; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; Hannah and Her Sisters; 1941; Leonard Part 6; Moonrise Kingdom; The Princess Switch: Switched Again; The Great Waldo Pepper; The Wedding Planner; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Fantastic Four (2015); Dangerous Men; Deadly Attraction; Dancin’: It’s On!

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Jaws: The Revenge

The first attack

The final attack

“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”

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“Stardust” (2020) Podcast Movie Review

22 februari 2022 | 51 min

Marc Maron and Johnny Flynn in Stardust (2020)

Stardust (2020) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 106

“Ground control to major bomb.”

Awards grubbers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell pause their bathroom hallucinations long enough to review Johnny Flynn as a brooding and henpecked David Bowie in Stardust. The film claims to be “(mostly) fiction,” but it’s really (mostly) bullshit, the rock-and-roll biopic as indie therapy movie. Loaded with glum flashbacks and facile psychoanalysis, Stardust tells the story of an interesting man in the least interesting manner imaginable.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss film school toolkits, mime interviews and Ziggy Stardust mood boards.

STARDUST (2020) FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s craft beer: Great Notion Brewing’s Juice Jr. IPA (6% ABV)

U.S. theatrical release: Nov. 25, 2020

Domestic box office: $62,251

Critics scores: 20 on Rotten Tomatoes; 35 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: David Paul

David Paul’s dare: “The wigs, guys, the wigs. The utter abuse of costuming art in general. Anytime they show the Spiders from Mars playing music, casting a middle-aged troll to play peak 1971 sex god Marc Bolan, how much the movie HATES Angie, how utterly without charm or charisma the actor playing Bowie is. Maybe there was a good movie there along the way, but the finished product is rough stuff. I can only assume once they realized they could only afford trolls to play sex gods they just gave up on the lot of it.”

IMDB synopsis: “Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie’s first visit to the US in 1971 – a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.”

This week’s referenced movies: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Stardust (2007); A Star Is Born; Daughters of the Dust; Lust in the Dust; Dune; Stardust Memories; Emma. (2020); Warcraft; Fateful Findings; Velvet Goldmine; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Walk the Line; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Corsican Brothers; The Identical; Almost Famous; Green Book; Midnight Run; Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird; Hope and Crosby movies; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Leaving Las Vegas; Poltergeist; Shocker; Videodrome; The Incredible Mr. Limpet; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Labyrinth; The Silence of the Lambs; Amadeus; Bohemian Rhapsody

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Stardust (2020)

Nobody listens to Bowie

The gap between Elvis and Dylan

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“The Wedding Planner” Podcast Movie Review

8 februari 2022 | 69 min

Matthew McCounaughey and Jennifer Lopez in The Wedding Planner

The Wedding Planner – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 105

“The movie demands the blandness! It wouldn’t have it any other way!”

Potato chip magnate Daniel Barnes and Yahoo! Magazine cover model Corky McDonnell engage with the wall-to-wall blandness of The Wedding Planner. A vehicle seemingly designed to seep all the appeal out of stars Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, The Wedding Planner is a Rolodex of rom-com cliches.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss house babushkas, adorable stalkers, unconsummated kiss leans and arcane movies in the park.

THE WEDDING PLANNER FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Brown M&Ms (1.75 oz. Maker’s Mark bourbon; 1 oz. Kavlana White Crème de Cacao; 1/4 tsp. Warbringer Mesquite-Smoked Southwest Bourbon; 0.25 oz. Midtown Spirits Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur; 6 dashes El Guapo Spiced Cocoa bitters; 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters; stir and strain into a glass with no ice; orange peel garnish)

U.S. festival premiere: Jan. 26, 2001

Domestic box office: $60 million (production budget: $35 million)

Critics scores: 17 on Rotten Tomatoes; 33 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Heather/Wheels & Heels

Heather’s dare: “The early 2000s rom-com genre would be nothing without J-Lo. EnterThe Wedding Planner where J Lo plays a, you guessed it, Wedding Planner, who ironically does not have a great love life. But fate steps in and drops a hot doc (Matthew McConaughey) who turns things upside down. AND NOW THE TWIST – hot doc is the groom in her NEW account that will score her a promotion. DUN DUN. This movie is peak meet-cute romantic comedy (I use comedy lightly).”

IMDB synopsis: “Mary Fiore is San Francisco’s most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom.”

This week’s referenced movies: Goodfellas; Selena; The Godfather Part III; The Poison Rose; The Princess Switch; the Star Wars movies; The Godfather; Young Einstein; When Harry Met Sally; Christmas with the Kranks; Singin’ in the Rain; The Princess Bride; Two Tickets to Broadway; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Flirtation Walk; Dancin’: It’s On!; Taxi Driver; Stagecoach (1939); The Silence of the Lambs; Tropic Thunder; Dazed and Confused; Larger Than Life; Fateful Findings; He Walked at Night

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for The Wedding Planner

Steve rescues Mary 1

Steve rescues Mary 2

The “Moe Green Special”

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“Fateful Findings” Podcast Movie Review

25 januari 2022 | 73 min

Neil Breen in Fateful Findings

Fateful Findings – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 104

“It’s a magical day!”

This week, action obtainer Daniel Barnes and insurance company Corky McDonnell hack into pan-hyphenate auteur Neil Breen’s unfathomable Fateful Findings. It’s as though Breen beamed this incomprehensible, egomaniacal, paranoid fever dream from an alien planet that studied human behavior but didn’t pay attention.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss magic stones, smoke ghosts, messiah music and hara-kiri press conferences.

FATEFUL FINDINGS FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Smoke & Murmurs (1 oz. Maker’s Mark bourbon; 1 oz. Midtown Spirits Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur; 1 tsp. Warbringer Mesquite-Smoked Southwest Bourbon; 1/2 tsp. demerara syrup; 2 dashes El Guapo Chicory Pecan bitters; 1 dash El Guapo Spiced Cocoa bitters; stir, smoke and strain over ice; garnish with a Luxardo cherry)

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 talks about bad movies must at one point review a film by true American auteur Neil Breen. Fateful Findings is a romantic drama . . . I guess? Breen is the writer, director, lead actor, editor, set dresser and about a hundred other things, and he is awful at all of them. Neil Breen is like an alien that learned all his knowledge of humanity by watching The Room, Love on a Leash and Dangerous Men.”

IMDB synopsis: “A computer-scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend, hacks into government databases, and faces the dire and fateful consequences of the mystical actions he obtained as a child.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadly Attraction; Old Fashioned; The Room; Love on a Leash; Dangerous Men; Rebel Without a Cause; Skullduggery; The Goonies; The Long Goodbye; Rawhead Rex; Memento; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Jeremiah Johnson; The Godfather Part II; JFK

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Fateful Findings

How not to drink coffee

The WTF ending

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“Foodfight!” – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun

11 januari 2022 | 73 min

“The Princess Switch: Switched Again” Podcast Movie Review

28 december 2021 | 59 min

Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Switch: Switched Again

The Princess Switch: Switched Again – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 103

“It’s like Christmas was projectile-vomited onto every inch of this movie.”

Belgravian baker Daniel Barnes and chief of no staff Corky McDonnell overdose on Christmas with The Princess Switch: Switched Again. This sequel prioritizes Christmas quantity over Christmas quality, a strategy that includes casting Vanessa Hudgens in three roles.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss state-sponsored bakeoffs, evil Christmas colors, suggestive dialogue and full-Firth sweaters.

THE PRINCESS SWITCH: SWITCHED AGAIN FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Christmas in Montenaro (1.75 oz. blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram; 0.75 oz. lime juice; 0.5 oz. Aperol; 2 tsp. cinnamon bark syrup; 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old-Fashioned Aromatic bitters)

U.S. VOD release date: Nov. 19, 2020

Critics scores: 58 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Darcey Self

Darcey’s dare: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The holidays are upon us, so that can only mean that it’s time to watch a really bad Christmas movie (or two). I’m giving you a gift you can open early – The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens, but wait what’s that in your stocking over there? The Princess Switch (colon) Switched Again!?! You both must have been very good this year. Happy Holidays!”

IMDB synopsis: “When Duchess Margaret unexpectedly inherits the throne to Montenaro and hits a rough patch with Kevin, it’s up to her double Stacy to save the day before a new lookalike, party girl Fiona foils their plans.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Princess Switch; The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star; Cosmic Sin; Sunrise at Campobello; Norbit; Wolf of Wall Street; Bowery Boys movies; Manhattan; Christmas with the Kranks; Reversal of Fortune; Cruella; Transylmania; Scrooged; Home Alone; A Christmas Prince; Ocean’s 11; Old Fashioned; Moment by Moment

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for The Princess Switch: Switched Again

Flour fight

Fiona supercut

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“The Princess Switch” Podcast Movie Review

14 december 2021 | 50 min

Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Switch

The Princess Switch – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 102

“This movie is about cramming Christmas into every nook and cranny of your senses.”

Snow janitor Daniel Barnes and Christmas prince Corky McDonnell spend a holiday in Belgravia with Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Switch. A movie designed to be half-watched while decorating Christmas trees or scrolling through Instagram feeds, The Princess Switch is made half-watchable by Hudgens alone. It’s a film made by and for algorithms in which every character speaks the language of exposition.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Christmas mansions, Chicago hats and creepy Christmas wish guys.

THE PRINCESS SWITCH FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: The Trans-Man-lantic Switcheroo (2 oz. Dolin Rouge vermouth; 0.75 oz. Rittenhouse Rye; 0.5 oz. Jameson Black Barrel; 1 dash Fee Brothers Old Fashioned aromatic bitters; 2 dashes El Guapo Holiday Pie bitters; stir over ice and strain into a cocktail glass with no ice and a brandied cherry)

U.S. VOD release date: Nov. 16, 2018

Critics scores: 71 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Darcey Self

Darcey’s dare: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The holidays are upon us, so that can only mean that it’s time to watch a really bad Christmas movie (or two). I’m giving you a gift you can open early – The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens, but wait what’s that in your stocking over there? The Princess Switch (colon) Switched Again!?! You both must have been very good this year. Happy Holidays!”

IMDB synopsis: “Competing in a Christmas baking competition in Belgravia, a Chicago baker bumps into the prince’s fiancée–who looks just like her. They switch lives for two days.””

This week’s referenced movies: The Princess Switch: Switched Again; The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star; Norbit; Adaptation; Holidate; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; Heart Condition; Rocky IV; They Live

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for The Princess Switch

Stacy and Lady Margaret meet cute

Piano duet

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“The Poison Rose” Podcast Movie Review

30 november 2021 | 62 min

John Travolta in The Poison Rose

The Poison Rose – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 101

“What manner of sorcery is this?”

Disgraced ex-football stars Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell reluctantly return to Galveston to review John Travolta in The Poison Rose. An onslaught of private detective cliches crudely formed into a movie-like shape, The Poison Rose is filled with twists but bereft of surprises.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss suspicious pills, hotshot hotheads and meth lab security flaws.

THE POISON ROSE FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: The Antidote (0.75 oz. New Alchemy Fleurette gin; 0.75 oz. St.-Germain; 0.75 oz. Lillet Blanc; 0.75 oz. lemon juice; 5 dashes El Guapo Love Potion bitters; 2 drops orange flower water; 1/2 tsp. cinnamon syrup; serve with no ice and no garnish)

This week’s Dares: Darcey Self (The Princess Switch and The Princess Switch: Switched Again)

U.S. VOD release date: May 24, 2019

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 26 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “Inspired by classic film noir, Carson Phillips, an ex-football star turned PI, has a soft spot for a lady in distress.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Maltese Falcon; The Princess Bride; The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star; The Parent Trap; Midnight Run; Gotti; Battlefield: Earth; Speed Kills; No Sudden Move; Old Fashioned; Meet John Doe; Moment by Moment; My Man Godfrey; Cosmic Sin; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Heartbeeps; Metropolis; Forrest Gump; The Birdcage; Star Wars movies; Scarface (1983); The Godfather Part III; Encino Man; Fargo; Joker; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Indiana Jones movies; Napoleon Dynamite; Chinatown

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for The Poison Rose

Sniper football

Carson and Doc reunion

Uncle Rico’s football video

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“Moment by Moment” Podcast Movie Review

16 november 2021 | 84 min

Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in Moment by Moment

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.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss address book leave-behinds, skulking skills and foot-ography parties.

MOMENT BY MOMENT FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Pod Pal (1.0 oz. Rittenhouse Rye; 0.5 oz. Maker’s Mark Bourbon; 1.0 oz. Aperol; 0.75 oz. Dolin Dry Vermouth; 2 dashes Angostura orange bitters; lemon twist; no ice)

U.S. theatrical release date: Dec. 22, 1978

Box office gross: $11 million (production budget: $8 million)

IMDB synopsis: “Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite suffers from loneliness following the separation of her womanizing husband Stu. Strip, a young drifter, became infatuated with her and, develops a May/December relationship with her.”

This week’s referenced movies: the Mad Max movies; Saturday Night Fever; Grease; The Incredible Shrinking Woman; the Twilight movies; the Fifty Shades trilogy; Perfect; Blue Jasmine; Reds; the Poltergeist universe; The Big Lebowski; Dangerous Men; My Man Godfrey; 9 1/2 Weeks; Sunset Boulevard; Pretty Woman; The Glass Key; Down and Out in Beverly Hills; Scenes from a Mall; Interiors; Stardust Memories; Scoop; A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy; Melinda and Melinda; The Great Santini; Lone Star; Look Who’s Talking; Nashville; Battlefield: Earth

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare; Johnny – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

1978 TV spot

A Day With John Travolta

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“Skullduggery” Podcast Movie Review

26 oktober 2021 | 61 min

Skullduggery

Skullduggery – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 99

“Wanna watch me suck a Greyhound bus through a straw?”

Trottelville Junior College talent show rejects Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell invoke the Spirit of Evil to review Skullduggery. Pointless beyond comprehension, Skullduggery concerns a malicious game within a game within a muddy and witless non-horror movie. It’s just a series of nonsensical things happening in the most uncompelling manner possible.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss sacred tigers, blood puzzles, Dial-a-Guffaw phone lines and Toronto Argonauts draft picks.

THIS WEEK’S DARE

In the Cut (Julio from The Contrarians)

SKULLDUGGERY FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Ota Richter Scale (1.5 oz. Johnnie Walker Black; 0.5 oz. Maker’s Mark Bourbon; 1 tsp. maple syrup; 2 dashes Angostura bitters; 1 dash Fee Brothers aromatic bitters; smoked with a lemon peel garnish)

This week’s darer: Mark Krawczyk

Mark’s dare: “I remember watching this film on Beta as a kid. I was interested because it involved a D&D type game and it was supposed to be horror. It is from that genre of “D&D will take you to hell” movies. I need to share this pain with someone.”

IMDB synopsis: “Five anxious players gather for a medieval board game where merciless warlocks battle for ultimate occult power. But something is playing — and it’s no longer just a game. Some unspeakable evil is manipulating an unwitting player to play out a blood-letting orgy of unrelenting horror.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Piano; Speed 2: Cruise Control; Dude Bro Party Massacre III; Marvel Cinematic Universe movies; Beyond the Seventh Door; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Princess Bride; Spookies; Exorcist II: The Heretic; Porky’s; Zapped!; An American Werewolf in London; Eyes Wide Shut; Austin Powers movies

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Adam’s warlock stats

List of films graded “F” on Cinemascore

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“Dude Bro Party Massacre III” Podcast Movie Review

12 oktober 2021 | 61 min

Dude Bro Party Massacre III

Dude Bro Party Massacre III – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 98

“Donato go there!”

East Chico alumni Daniel and Corky enter the beef box to review the slasher satire Dude Bro Party Massacre III. It’s disjointed, overloaded, and often forced and obvious, with a high volume of jokes and a low connect rate, but there are enough real laughs to make it recommendable.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss thigh guys, Larry King cameos, Bazooka Joe jokes and pornstar gravitas.

THIS WEEK’S DARE

Spree (Julio from The Contrarians)

DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Dude Bro Party Foul (1.25 oz. blanco tequila; 0.25 oz. jalapeno-infused tequila; 1 oz. Aperol; 0.25 oz. Cointreau; 0.5 oz. lime juice; 1 dash Angostura bitters; 1 dash Angostura Orange bitters; 2 dashes El Guapo Fuego bitters; 1 tsp. agave nectar; shake and strain over ice and top with club soda)

VOD release date: July 7, 2015

Critics scores: 90 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Ryan L. Terry

Ryan’s dare: “It’s a brilliant satirical horror film that riffs on the tropes of slasher films. This movie is so ballsy that it completely skips the first and second ones and goes directly to the tertiary installment. This hilarious, campy movie knows what it is, and it rocks it! Furthermore, it gender-bends nearly every element so that a group of frat boys instead of sorority girls can be tormented by the masked slasher. More than simply replacing the typical female characters with male characters, leaving it predictable and lazy, this movie feels both familiar yet fresh. More than a satire of 1980s slashers, this movie actually has many layers and delivers some rather thoughtful elements as well.”

IMDB synopsis: “In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico’s frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother’s murder at the hands of the serial killer known as Motherface.”

This week’s referenced movies: National Lampoon’s Animal House; Christmas with the Kranks; Ryan’s Babe; Spookies; Gigli; The Room; the Bourne movies; The VelociPastor; Airplane!; The Cabin in the Woods; Sleepaway Camp; Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2; Gremlins; Ghoulies; Top Secret!; the Naked Gun movies; Hellzapoppin’; Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; Caddyshack; Traffik (2018); Duck Soup

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Dude Bro Party Massacre III trailer

Meet Turbeaux

Andrew W.K. cameo

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“Old Fashioned” Podcast Movie Review

28 september 2021 | 76 min

Elizabeth Roberts and Rik Swartzwelder in Old Fashioned.

Old Fashioned – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 97

“We’re floating round and round and upside down/Searching for the things our parents found.”

Small-town shock jock Daniel Barnes and song parodist Corky McDonnell slog through the torturous theory-mongering of Rik Swaltzwelder’s Old Fashioned. Director-writer-producer Swartzwelder stars as Clay, an intensely unlikeable, old-fashioned old fascist with serious serial killer vibes. Despite its holier-than-thou position, Old Fashioned fetishizes a toxic relationship with as much zeal as Fifty Shades of Grey or 365 Days.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss somnolent turtles, Chekhov’s DVD and manic pixie dream hobos.

THIS WEEK’S DARE

Jaws: The Revenge (Dean Longenecker)

OLD FASHIONED FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Barnesyard Old Fashioned (2 oz. Maker’s Mark bourbon; 1 dash Angostura Orange bitters; 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters; 2 dashes El Guapo Barrel-Aged Vanilla bitters; 1 tsp. demerara syrup; stir and strain over ice; orange and lemon peel twist garnishes with a Luxardo cherry)

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 6, 2015

Domestic box office: $1.9 million (production budget: $600,000)

Critics scores: 18 on Rotten Tomatoes; 29 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Rachael Legg

Rachael’s dare: “Old Fashioned was filmed in my hometown, and so when I was 15, I became an extra in the film. But when I watched it for the first time at the premiere, I knew that I had been a part of something terrible. This thinly veiled Christian flick was released in limited theatres around the same time that Fifty Shades of Grey came out. In fact, at the premiere, Swartzwelder compared his movie to David and Fifty Shades to Goliath, as if both movies weren’t absolutely horrendous. After watching Old Fashioned, I have concluded that Swartzwelder made this movie because he really wanted to write himself as a good Christian man, and then forced an entire cast of actors to comment on his godliness for 115 minutes. Good luck.”

IMDB synopsis: “A reformed frat boy opens an antique store in a college town and falls for the free-spirited girl who moves into the apartment above his shop. In time, this unlikely pair fall into a traditional courtship.”

This week’s referenced movies: Dancin’: It’s On!; Jaws 3-D; Orca; God’s Not Dead; God’s Not Dead 2; Theodore Rex; Cosmic Sin; Deadly Attraction; Warcraft; Psycho; Meet John Doe; Diner; Sleepless in Seattle; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Little Shop of Horrors; Let the Right One In; The Exorcist

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Old Fashioned trailer

Clay’s theory

Swartzwelder speaks

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“Cosmic Sin” Podcast Movie Review

14 september 2021 | 63 min

Bruce Willis in Cosmic Sin

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)

COSMIC SIN FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Cosmic Mai Tai (1 oz. Goslings Black Seal Rum; 1/2 oz. dark rum; 1/2 oz. white rum; 3/4 oz. Cointreau; 1 oz. lime juice; 1/2 oz. orgeat; 1 tsp. Luxardo liqueur; 1 dash Angostura bitters; shake and strain over crushed ice; float 1 tsp. Papa’s Pilar Dark Rum on top)

VOD release date: Mar. 12, 2021

Critics scores: 3 on Rotten Tomatoes; 9 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Dean Longenecker

Dean’s dare: “I love my sci-fi. I like Bruce Willis, I don’t have any problems with Frank Grillo. I can usually forgive some stupidity in the story if everything else is at least ok. This is not possible with this utter shit show of a movie. Year 2524. We have quantum physics space travel. But we still drive early 2000s pickup trucks and chopper motorcycles. Story, sets, F/X, acting all BAD! They tried to say something about your life decisions, I think.”

IMDB synopsis: “A teenage boy and his father move to his recently-deceased mother’s hometown, where they encounter the ancient Native American cemetery with the power to raise the dead.”

This week’s referenced movies: Dancin’: It’s On!; Vice (2015); Extraction; First Kill; Acts of Violence; Reprisal; Air Strike; 10 Minutes Gone; Trauma Center; Survive the Night; Hard Kill; Breach (2020); Out of Death; Midnight Run; Stargate; Armageddon; Starship Troopers; the Star Wars franchise; Alien: Covenant; 28 Days Later; Godzilla vs. Kong; Aliens; Independence Day

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Cosmic Sin trailer

Suiting up

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“From Justin to Kelly” Podcast Movie Review

31 augusti 2021 | 55 min

Kelly Clarkson in From Justin to Kelly

From Justin to Kelly – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 95

“Oh man, I rock!”

Pennsylvania Posse alpha douches Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell follow up their review of Dancin’: It’s On! by reviewing Singin’: It’s On!. Also known as From Justin to Kelly, the film stars American Idol contestants Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson as reality show hostages grimly going through the motions of a bland and brainless Spring Break musical.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss tie skirts, bandanna shirts, and other garments not used for their intended purposes.

THIS WEEK’S DARE

Cosmic Sin (Dean Longenecker)

FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Thyme Thief (2 oz. St. George Botanivore gin; 0.25 oz. St.-Germain; 0.75 oz. lemon juice; 0.5 oz. thyme simple syrup; 1 dash orange bitters; 7 or 8 drops St. George Absinthe Verte)

U.S. theatrical release date: Jun. 20, 2003

Box office gross: $4.9 million (production budget: $12 million)

Critics scores: 10 on Rotten Tomatoes; 14 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “A waitress from Texas and a college student from Pennsylvania meet during spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and come together through their shared love of singing.”

This week’s referenced movies: Dancin’: It’s On!; Spring Breakers; She’s All That; The Spice Girls Movie; Seeing Double; Gigli; Where the Boys Are; Where the Boys Are ’84; An American Werewolf in Paris; The Last Man; Sleepaway Camp; Speed 2: Cruise Control; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Grease; the High School Musical franchise; Jungle Cruise; Black Widow (2021); Big Money Hustlas; The Apple Dumpling Gang

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

From Justin to Kelly trailer

“Madness”

Sailin’ and singin’

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“Dancin’: It’s On!” Podcast Movie Review

17 augusti 2021 | 89 min

Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp in Dancin': It's On!

Dancin’: It’s On! – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 94

“This is basically Skim Milk: The Motion Picture.”

Hit Parade Hotel bellboys Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell turn the dancin’ off long enough to review Dancin’: It’s On!. This hilariously inept Panama City Beach travelogue has good dancin’ but bad everythin’ else. The central love story pairs privileged white monster Jen and rage-dancin’ human toilet Ken, dancin’-obsessed youngsters trainin’ for the Big Dance Contest. It stars actors who can dance but not act, with a director who can dance but neither direct nor act.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pop-lock concierges, dancin’ barbers and deadbeat MMA dads.

DANCIN’: IT’S ON! FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: The Flav-o-rita (1 oz. jalapeño-infused blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. blanco tequila; 0.5 oz. mezcal; 0.75 oz. Cointreau; 0.75 oz. lime juice; 0.25 oz. pineapple juice; 0.25 oz. agave nectar; 1 dash Angostura bitters; smoked and topped with 1 tsp. Grand Marnier)

U.S. theatrical release date: Oct. 30, 2015

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Gunnar Pearson

Gunnar’s dare: “This is the type of bad movie that you will remember until the day you die. This movie does one and only one thing right, which is that the actual dancing in this movie is pretty good. Literally every other aspect of this movie is wrong. The directing, writing, acting, and characters are wrong. The shots, cuts, and transitions are wrong. This movie doesn’t show or tell it has the soundtrack come on and just literally describe what is happening in a scene. The movie is shot like the world’s most poorly made tourism promo, yet it somehow managed to get into 600 theaters! In other words, I loved this movie and would love to hear you guys talk about it on the podcast.”

IMDB synopsis: “Two young dancers fall in love and eventually work together to win a dance competition.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Golden Bouzouki; Dirty Dancing; Flashdance; Step Up; The Shining; Gone with the Wind; Speed 2: Cruise Control; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Star Wars: Attack of the Clones; Street Fighter (1994); From Justin to Kelly; Beach Blanket Bingo; The Stepford Wives; The Warriors; MacGruber; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Dancin’: It’s On! trailer

“What do you know about dancin’?”

Danny and Shotsy dancin’

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Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 3

3 augusti 2021 | 70 min

“The Last Man” Podcast Movie Review

20 juli 2021 | 50 min

Hayden Christensen in The Last Man

The Last Man – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 93

“Much like Harvey Keitel, I’ll be slumming and disinterested this whole way through.”

Doomsday prepper Daniel Barnes and apocalyptic lifestyle manual procurer Corky McDonnell prepare for the final storm by watching Hayden Christensen sleepwalk through The Last Man. A dreary, shapeless, grey-green, post-apocalyptic incel sex fantasy, The Last Man is a chore from start to finish.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss fake beard budgets, self-penned survival guides, not-Jake Busey and handbooks vs. mind-books.

NEW DARES

Pieces (Jeffrey Marculescu)

Forbidden Power (Gunnar Pearson)

THE LAST MAN FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: The Final Storm (1 oz. Buffalo Trace bourbon; 1 oz. California Distilled Spirits Smoky Rye whiskey; 1/2 oz. charred lemon juice; 2 tsp. maple syrup; 1 tsp. cinnamon bark syrup; 2 dashes Angostura Bitters; cocktail smoker)

VOD release date: Jan. 18, 2019

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Anonymous

Anonymous’ dare: “Awhile back I was curious what Hayden Christensen was up to since completely stunning everyone with such well-crafted acting in Star Wars that people actually preferred Jar Jar. And he’s been working! One 2019 item on his resume is The Last Man with Harvey Keitel. Saw it was on and fired it up. dot-dot-dot-dot-dot dot-dot. Calling this a turd would be an insult to turds. And, honestly, I thought of you two within the first ten minutes.”

IMDB synopsis: “Kurt, combat veteran with PTSD and hallucinations, fortifies his home and builds a secret underground shelter due to doomsday like weather changes. He gets a security job to pay for it and his boss’ cute daughter for company.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Circle; the Fifty Shades trilogy; Kundun; Highlander; Spookies; Deadly Attraction; the Star Wars prequels; Joe Versus the Volcano; Beyond the Seventh Door; Johnny Mnemonic; Apocalypse Now; Taxi Driver; Fight Club; The Road; Revolution; Se7en; The Dark Knight Rises; Amadeus; The Purge; Michael Collins; Michael Clayton; Speed 2: Cruise Control

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

The Last Man trailer

“You’re my hero.”

Apocalypse Now hotel room freakout

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“Speed 2: Cruise Control” Podcast Movie Review

6 juli 2021 | 77 min

Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric in Speed 2 Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 92

“Zero knots.”

In this week’s episode, Seabourn Legend mainstage mainstays Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell excoriate Speed 2: Cruise Control “with an almost sensual pleasure.” Sandra Bullock and not-Keanu star in this lazy and pointless rehash/desecration of Speed that makes the perfectly perfunctory original look like The Wages of Fear. Instead of action or suspense, Cruise Control delivers dumb comedy riddled with continuity errors and a complete lack of spatial-temporal logic.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss exploding golf clubs, UB40 serenades, lamp gambits and date boats.

NEW DARE

The Last Man (Anonymous)

SPEED 2 CRUISE CONTROL FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: The Geiger Encounter (1.5 oz. Plantation 3 Stars White Rum; 0.5 oz. California Distilled Spirits Arm & Yak Brandy; 0.75 oz. lime juice; 0.5 oz. cinnamon bark syrup; 7 or 8 drops of St. George Absinthe Verte)

U.S. theatrical release date: June 13, 1997

Domestic box office: $48 million (production budget: $160 million)

Critics scores: 4 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Darcey Self

Darcey’s dare: “It’s Summer blockbuster season and what better way to celebrate than by watching this box office bomb (see what I did there?) Speed 2 (colon) Cruise Control. The whole gang is back together. Well, everyone that is still alive… and who isn’t named Keanu Reeves. So, I guess, really only Sandra Bullock is back aaaand Glenn Plummer. Anyway, this looks like some fun hijinks on the high seas. Enjoy!”

IMDB synopsis: “A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.”

This week’s referenced movies: Speed; Spookies; Rawhead Rex; Sleepaway Camp; Kill Bill; the Star Wars movies; the Die Hard franchise; Lolita (1962); The Poseidon Adventure; Assassins (1995); Pulp Fiction; the Police Academy movies; The Professional; Hercules in New York; Titanic (1997); Godzilla; Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Spider-Man

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Speed 2: Cruise Control trailer

Oil tanker avoidance

Cruise crash

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“Spookies” Podcast Movie Review

22 juni 2021 | 61 min

Spookies – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 91

“Look at me! I’m Duke the horny ghost.”

Beloved cock-caster Daniel Barnes and accomplished John Jay impersonator Corky McDonnell devour the 1980s horror smorgasbord of Spookies. It’s overstuffed and pointlessly convoluted in a good way, a go-for-broke horror buffet that offers some surprisingly good monster effects and some unsurprisingly abysmal acting and writing.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss comedy relief puppets, werecats, and Connecticut coke party casual.

NEW DARE

Speed 2: Cruise Control (Darcey Self)

SPOOKIES FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: Werecat Sidecar (1.5 oz. California Distilled Spirits Brandy; 0.5 oz. Rittenhouse Rye; 0.25 oz. Cointreau; 0.25 oz. Grand Marnier; 0.75 oz. lemon juice; splash orange juice; 0.5 tsp. simple syrup; 0.5 tsp. cinnamon bark syrup)

This week’s darer: Ryan L. Terry

Ryan’s dare: “This is the criminally underrated obscure schlocky movie that delivers everything you wanted (and even that which you didn’t know you needed) out of a horror B-movie! Prepare to witness a monstrous creature-effects extravaganza, a sheer spectacle of love for the American horror film! It’s possibly the most lovable hot mess of a horror movie ever, and you will love every second of it!”

IMDB synopsis: “A wicked sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to keep his wife alive.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadly Attraction; Collision Course; The Ring; Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; Sleepaway Camp; Rawhead Rex; Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2; The Longest Day; Tora! Tora! Tora!; Glen or Glenda?; Airplane!; X2; Fargo; Flatliners; Solarbabies; Pretty in Pink; Forrest Gump; Foodfight!; Clue; Phantasm; Deadfall; Creature from the Black Lagoon; Mac and Me; The Cabin in the Woods; Manhattan; Aliens; The Thing (1982); xXx; The New Mutants; Gremlins; Goonies; Munchies; Critters; Ghoulies; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Tenet

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Spookies trailer

Farting mud zombie attack

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“Deadly Attraction” Podcast Movie Review

8 juni 2021 | 80 min

Deadly Attraction (aka 365 Days)

Deadly Attraction – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 90

“I can’t believe this is happening!”

Recorded live from a Red Lobster parking lot, Daniel and Corky review the immoral moralizing of Menetie T. Ejeye’s Deadly Attraction. A deranged take on the Oedipal myth, Deadly Attraction stars Matt O’Neil as Mark, the world’s worst human. Exhibiting no sense of morality while aggressively hawking Christian redemption, Deadly Attraction is a tone-deaf catastrophe of atrocious dialogue, awful acting and filler improv.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss money guns, Papyrus font, Trigger warnings and Dad necklaces.

NEW DARE

Spookies (Ryan L. Terry)

DEADLY ATTRACTION FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s themed cocktail: The Demon Child (1 oz. Maker’s Mark Bourbon, 1.25 oz. Skrewball Peanut Butter whiskey, 1/2 tsp. Luxardo, 1/2 tsp. grenadine, one dash Angostura orange bitters, one dash Fee Brothers aromatic bitters, one dash El Guapo Summer Berries bitters)

This week’s darer: Gunnar Pearson

Gunnar’s dare: “Hey guys, did you know that there is another horrible movie out there called 365 Days? Well, now you do. Renamed Deadly Attraction by some distributors, it is one of the strangest bad movies you will ever see. And much like that other 365 Days movie you guys watched, the leading man in this movie is the worst person ever. I think the director was going for a rip-off of American History X but failed due to a combination of horrible dialogue, terrible pacing, non-existent character development, and the most inconsistent tone I have ever seen in a movie.”

This week’s referenced movies: 365 Days; Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; God’s Not Dead; The Room; mother!; The Social Network; Good Will Hunting; Man on the Moon; Can’t Stop the Music; Love on a Leash; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Risky Business

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Deadly Attraction trailer

The shocking finale

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“Big Money Hustlas” Podcast Movie Review

25 maj 2021 | 52 min

Big Money Hustlas Insane Clown Posse

Big Money Hustlas – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 89

“Now there’s an Oscar waiting to happen.”

Daniel “Lemon Meringue Pie-Ass” Barnes and Harry Cox fanboy Corky McDonnell go horrorcore with their review of Big Money Hustlas. Insane Clown Posse members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope star as Black culture-appropriating non-actors flailing through an unfunny, overlong parody. Direct-to-fisheye-lens mugging, fan service in-jokes, and sophomoric hijinks too stupid to be offensive rule the proceedings.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss magic ninjas, gun-dick guys, fallopian fruit flippers and Dr. Dinglenut.

NEW DARE

Deadly Attraction (Gunnar Pearson)

BIG MONEY HUSTLAS FACTS AND FIGURES

Corky’s craft beer: Sudwerk Funhouse Sour (6.0% ABV)

Direct-to-video release date: July 18, 2000

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

IMDB synopsis: “It’s New York City, and the crime lord Big Baby Sweets has got NYC around his finger. The NYPD is helpless so the Chief sends out for Sugar Bear, a 70s, Dolemite worshiping, rhyming supercop from San Fransisco to stop Big Baby, his Magic Ninjas, Hack Benjamin (Jumpsteady, and his 2 sidekicks, Big Stank and Lil’ Poot, with the help of Officer Harry Cox.” [sic]

This week’s referenced movies: Big Money Rustlas; 365 Days; American History X; the Dolemite movies; Norbit; Cool as Ice; I’m Bout It; Big Ballers; I’m Gonna Git You Sucka; Airplane!; The Age of Innocence; Ready to Rumble; The Jerky Boys Movie; Hercules in New York; Hunger; Dragged Across Concrete; Pulp Fiction; The New Mutants; Ava; Runaway (1984)

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Donut Hut hijinks

“Sugar Bear”

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“Ava” (2020) Podcast Movie Review

11 maj 2021 | 57 min

Jessica Chastain in Ava

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 DARE

Say It Isn’t So (Leo Logan)

AVA (2020) FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft spirit: Gold River Distillery‘s Wheelhouse Malted Rice Whiskey

U.S. theatrical release date: Sept. 25, 2020

Worldwide box office: $3.3 million

Critics scores: 17 on Rotten Tomatoes; 39 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Caroline Hostetler

IMDB synopsis: “Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.”

This week’s referenced movies: Goodfellas; Hercules in New York; The New Mutants; Midnight Cowboy; The Wizard of Oz; There’s Something About Mary; Rollerball (2002); Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li; The Pawnbroker; The Illustrated Man; The Help; Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse; the John Wick franchise; Fantastic Four; The Saint; The Bourne Supremacy; Across the Universe; Trainspotting; Bad Moms; Rawhead Rex; Forrest Gump; Swamp Thing; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for Ava (2020)

Fountain fight

Ava vs. Management

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“The New Mutants” Podcast Movie Review

27 april 2021 | 57 min

The New Mutants Demon Bear

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 things and ends up being absolutely nothing.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss skeevy Slendermen, purple dragons, laser swords and fear bears.

NEW DARE

Ava (Caroline Hostetler)

THE NEW MUTANTS FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft spirit: Patio29 Twin Mischief Dark Rum (45% ABV)

U.S. theatrical release date: Aug. 28, 2020

Domestic box office: $23 million (production budget: $70-80 million)

Critics scores: 35 on Rotten Tomatoes; 43 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Matt Barnes

Why did Matt dare Daniel and Corky to watch The New Mutants? “I saw this at the drive-in when indoor theaters were closed. It’s always hard to see what’s happening on the screen from inside my car, but I don’t think an indoor theater would have helped. This movie with several release dates features several different genres: Marvel action flick, horror flick, young adult romance flick, and succeeds at none of them.”

IMDB synopsis: “Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.”

This week’s referenced movies: the X-Men franchise; Point Blank (1967); the John Wick movies; A Christmas Story 2; the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Hercules in New York; The Fault in Our Stars; The Breakfast Club; A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors; The Long Good Friday; It (2017); Sucker Punch; Watchmen; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; The Incredibles; 365 Days; Deep Blue Sea; The Wizard of Oz

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for The New Mutants

The first two minutes

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“Hercules in New York” Podcast Movie Review

13 april 2021 | 49 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arnold Stang in Hercules in New York

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)

HERCULES IN NEW YORK FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft spirit: J.J. Pfister’s American Single Malt Whiskey (56% ABV)

Critics scores: 17 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on Metacritic

Theatrical release date: Feb. 25, 1970

This week’s darer: Michael Bagamery

IMDB synopsis: “Hercules is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business.”

This week’s referenced movies: X-Men movies; the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Pumping Iron; Love on a Leash; Juno; The Third Man; The Poseidon Adventure; Poltergeist; Wall Street; Citizen Kane; The Terminator; Midnight Cowboy; Sleepless in Seattle; The Nutty Professor (1996); Twins; Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for Hercules in New York

“You have struck Hercules.”

Dubbed Hercules vs. Original Recipe

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“Runaway” (1984) Podcast Movie Review

30 mars 2021 | 63 min

Runaway (1984)

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 FIGURES

Daniel’s craft spirit: New Alchemy Distilling‘s White Devil Whiskey (40% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Lead Dog Brewing‘s Who’s Gettin’ It? white stout (7% ABV)

U.S. theatrical release date: Dec. 14, 1984

Worldwide box office: $6.7 million (production budget: $8 million)

Critics scores: 50 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Johnny Flores

IMDB synopsis: “In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots…and his son becomes a target.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Wicker Man (2006); Batman (1989); Star Wars; Flashdance; Dirty Dancing; Staying Alive; Doctor Detroit; Reds; The Last Emperor; Runaway Train (1985); Cobra; Jurassic Park; the Police Academy movies; Backdraft 2; Vertigo; L.A. Confidential; Heartbeeps; Think Big; Swamp Thing; The Wizard of Oz; Grudge Match; Flight of the Navigator

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for Runaway (1984)

Tom Selleck vs. robot

Gene Simmons, king of the jump scare

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“Foodfight!” Podcast Movie Review

16 mars 2021 | 67 min

Foodfight Movie

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 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 sensibilities to the steaming pile of creamy excrement that is Foodfight!, an assault on the eyes and ears and souls of all who dare. Horrible looking, bad “jokes,” product placement galore. It’s a feast!”

IMDB synopsis: “The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time.”

This week’s referenced movies: Kill Bill; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Holiday Engagement; Elvira: Mistress of the Dark; Love on a Leash; 365 Days; the Toy Story movies; Sausage Party; Torch Song Trilogy; the Indiana Jones movies; Casablanca; Men in Black; Requiem for a Dream; Theodore Rex; Caligula; Last Tango in Paris; Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS; The Exorcist; Johnny Mnemonic; 13 Assassins; The Wizard of Oz; The Graduate; The Conqueror; Meet Dave; Gone with the Wind; Total Recall; Soul; Ultraviolet; Robocop

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for Foodfight!

Brand X Invades Marketropolis

“You cold-farted itch!”

Daniel’s article about Legado Rye Whiskey

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“The Conqueror” Podcast Movie Review

2 mars 2021 | 45 min

The Conqueror

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

Corky’s craft beer: Heretic Brewing’s Juicier Than Thou hazy IPA (6.5% ABV)

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 22, 1956

This week’s darer: David Paul

Why did David Paul dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Conqueror? “Trash is timeless, racist trash even more so. The Duke plays the scourge of the civilized world and greatest warrior in history, Genghis Khan. To me this film is the apogee of white supremacy in film casting. You guys are great at breaking down the politics of film, so this should be a treat.”

IMDB synopsis: “Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.”

This week’s referenced movies: Exorcist II: The Heretic; Superman; The Godfather; Deathtrap; Murder My Sweet; Jet Pilot; Johnny Mnemonic; 365 Days; The Warrior and the Sorceress; Aladdin; The Ten Commandments (1956); the Lord of the Rings films; Split Second; I Want to Live!; True Grit (1969)

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for The Conqueror

Karger on Khan

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“Johnny Mnemonic” Podcast Movie Review

16 februari 2021 | 56 min

Johnny Mnemonic

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 MNEMONIC FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft spirit: California Distilled Spirits’ Distillery Direct Whiskey

Corky’s craft beer: Oak Park Brewing Co’s Black Is Beautiful (8.0% ABV)

U.S. theatrical release date: May 26, 1995

Domestic box office: $19 million (production budget: $26 million)

Critic scores: 12 on Rotten Tomatoes; 33 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Brad from The Cinema Guys podcast

Why did Anonymous dare Daniel and Corky to watch Johnny Mnemonic? “This is not a good movie but…I love it! This is Keanu in his 90’s prime of Woah! I remember seeing this film in the theater in 1995 and I was the only one of our group that walked out enjoying this so bad it’s good cyberpunk film. Highly recommend watching this Keanu classic, which by the way also has a great soundtrack. Enjoy!”

IMDB synopsis: “A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cocktail; The Jesus Rolls; Think Big; Home Alone; The Lawnmower Man; Blade Runner; the Star Wars movies; Disclosure; the Matrix movies; Leprechaun in the Hood; The Warrior and the Sorceress; Starship Troopers; Terminator 2

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny’s breakdown

Dolph vs. dolphin

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“Holidate” Podcast Movie Review

2 februari 2021 | 78 min

Holidate Podcast Movie Review

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.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss slutty Aunts, black Santas, and you-shit-yourself-last-night sex.

NEW DARE

Loqueesha (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T)

HOLIDATE FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft beer: Moksa Brewing’s Cold Steeped – Geisha (11% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Imperiale Beer Project’s Sweep the Dregs West Coast IPA (7.1% ABV)

Netflix release date: Feb. 28, 2020

Critic scores: 44 on Rotten Tomatoes; 44 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: He Who Shall Not Be Named

Why did Anonymous dare Daniel and Corky to watch Holidate? “I haven’t yet listened to you suffering through the Holiday Movie but was subjected to one the other day that my 23-year-old daughter promised me was “not like all the others.” And she was right. First of all, if it’d been released to theaters it would’ve been R-Rated. Still bad, still predictable, but there was some enjoyment in there. Could be a Christmas movie, could be an any-holiday movie.”

IMDB synopsis: “Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other’s platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Karate Kid; Norbit; Big Money Rustlas; Holiday Engagement; Malibu’s Most Wanted; Big Momma’s House 2; Big Momma’s House: Like Father, Like Son; ThunderStruck; Destination Wedding; Leaving Las Vegas; Christmas with the Kranks; Goodfellas; Crocodile Dundee; Valentine’s Day; New Year’s Eve; Mother’s Day; La La Land; Dirty Dancing; Crazy, Stupid, Love; The Terminator; Mallrats; Days of Heaven; The VelociPastor; Legally Blonde; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; Magnolia; Black Panther; Love Actually; Harold & Maude; His Girl Friday; There’s Something About Mary

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Holidate

Grocery store fight

Will she or won’t she shit her pants?

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“The Jesus Rolls” Podcast Movie Review

19 januari 2021 | 46 min

The Jesus Rolls

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 Sluts, and bowling alley sambas.

NEW DARE

Holidate (Anonymous)

THE JESUS ROLLS FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft spirit: Dry Diggings Distillery Bodie 5 Dog California Single Malt Whiskey (40% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Farmers Brewing 530 Wheat Beer (5.0% ABV)

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 28, 2020

Domestic box office: $18,169

Critic scores: 21 on Rotten Tomatoes; 44 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: HOF Heather Smith

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Jesus Rolls? “Big Big Lebowski fan over here. Was excited but apprehensive when they announced a flick about one of the grossest characters from one of my favorite movies The Jesus. It feels like they took a SNL one-joke character and tried to make a full feature with some pretty one-note jokes. Please do our dirty work for us. Don’t make me watch him lick dirty balls. And to the listeners, donate for heaven’s sakes. You gotta keep these guys fed, and well beer-watered.”

IMDB synopsis: “A trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again.”

This week’s referenced movies: Norbit; 365 Days; Holiday Engagement; Lucky Numbers; A Night at the Roxbury; Amelie; Cape Fear (1991); Sudden Impact; The Man Who Wasn’t There; Y Tu Mamá También; The King of Staten Island; The Godfather; Deadfall; Something Wild; Mac; Mac and Me

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for The Jesus Rolls

“Nobody fucks with the Jesus” scene

Christopher Walken cameo

Daniel’s Top Ten Films of 2020

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“Norbit” – Dare Daniel Podcast Rerun

5 januari 2021 | 54 min

Norbit

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 designed for children that no child should ever be allowed to watch.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss turkey ass, fart snores, power tap teachers and pimp-licious makeovers.

NORBIT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 9, 2007

Domestic box office: $95.7 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 27 on Metacritic

This week’s craft coffee: Chapman Crafted Coffee’s First Roast (Single-Origin Guatemala)

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

Why did Wolfie T dare Daniel and Corky to watch Norbit? “Norbit is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, but I only know about five people who have actually seen it. When I saw it in the theatre, my friend and I were the only ones there. When I mention it to people, I get eye rolls, groans, sarcastic laughs, and the most common comment is, “That movie sucks…I haven’t seen it.” No other movie podcast would dare touch this one, not even the one I co-host!”

IMDB synopsis: “A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.”

This week’s referenced movies: The VelociPastor; Love on a Leash; Angels & Demons; Inferno; Fight Club; Bruce Almighty; Backdraft; Top Gun; the Nutty Professor movies; Boomerang; Harlem Nights; Ready to Rumble; Meet Dave; A Thousand Words; the Star Wars prequels; I Know Who Killed Me; Dreamgirls; the Madea movies; Coming to America; Forrest Gump; the Harry Potter movies; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Road House (1989); My Name Is Dolemite

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Boxing argument from Coming to America

“This is our town, and don’t you forget it.”

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“Holiday Engagement” Podcast Movie Review

22 december 2020 | 70 min

Holiday Engagement (2011)

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, silent orgasms, and fake baptisms.

HOLIDAY ENGAGEMENT FACTS AND FIGURES

Hallmark Channel premiere: Nov. 28, 2011

This week’s darer: Vanessa McNetflix, heiress to the McNetflix fortune

IMDB synopsis: “Afraid to tell her family she’s been dumped, Hillary hires an actor to play her fiancé during a four-day Thanksgiving weekend at her parents’ house.”

Why did Vanessa dare Daniel and Corky to watch “any Hallmark or Netflix Christmas movie”? “I’ve been subjected to sitting through three of these turds over the past few weeks and – boom! – now I’m a diabetic. Pick one. Any one.”

This week’s referenced movies: Love Actually; Remember the Night; Christmas in Connecticut; Christmas with the Kranks; Inception; The Godfather; Ordinary People; Single White Female; Secrets & Lies; Of Mice and Men; Frozen Assets; Home Alone: The Holiday Heist; the Klumps movies

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Holiday Engagement trailer

Calling “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”

George shoots Lenny

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“Christmas with the Kranks” Movie Review

8 december 2020 | 64 min

Christmas with the Kranks – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 78

“You’ve tried the rest, now try us.”

Podcast cucks Daniel and Corky contemplate skipping Christmas for the rest of their lives after suffering through Joe Roth’s sad and depressing Christmas with the Kranks. Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis play soulless twits in this sour, misanthropic, materialist nightmare of a Christmas movie made by some of the most privileged people on the planet. This exhausting parade of white people’s Christmas problems offers only banality, blandness, and the most desperately unfunny sitcom hijinks imaginable.

Meanwhile, Daniel and Corky discuss canned ham slapstick, Squiggy cameos, and menacing Christmas carols.

NEW DARES

The Beast of War (Nick Paticchio)

CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft beer: Fieldwork Brewing’s Glorzo DIPA (8.3% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Kern River Brewing’s Chuuurch! IPA (7.6% ABV)

Theatrical release date: Nov. 24, 2004

Domestic box office: $73.8 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 5 on Rotten Tomatoes; 22 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Julio from The Contrarians podcast

IMDB synopsis: “With their daughter, Blair, away, Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas all together until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate it at the last minute.”

Why did Julio dare Daniel and Corky to watch Christmas with the Kranks? “For the longest time, whenever we watched a bad movie for our show, I’d bring us home by asking my co-host, ‘Was it worse than Christmas with the Kranks?’ The answer was always no.”

This week’s referenced movies: Feds; The Great Train Robbery (1903); Waterworld; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Extreme Measures; The Last House on the Left; Crank; Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise; Lucky Numbers; Better Off Dead; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; It’s a Wonderful Life; Paper Moon; the Halloween movies; The Room; the Home Alone movies; Norbit; Jerry Maguire; Gotti; Gigli

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Christmas with the Kranks

Hickory honey ham hilarity

Botox-ic masculinity

“I definitely have breast cancer.”

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“Speed Kills” Podcast Movie Review

24 november 2020 | 62 min

Speed Kills

Speed Kills – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 77

“Examine a man’s faults, you find his virtues.”

Daniel and Corky close the book on Travolt-ember, their annual tribute to the always overacting John Travolta. However, the hosts encounter an unusually sedate Travolta in Speed Kills, an incomprehensibly incompetent pseudo-biopic released straight-to-streaming in 2018. The film is loosely based on the life of speedboat mogul and racer Donald Aronow, reimagined here as Ben Aronoff for some stupid reason. Despite its ambitions as a generation-spanning crime saga, Speed Kills feels more like Gotti Lite. Essentially a filmed Wikipedia page, Speed Kills is borderline parodic in its use of cliches and narrative shortcuts.

Meanwhile, Daniel and Corky discuss repressed memories, cock-blocking lawyers, and Robbie fuckin’ Reemer.

NEW DARES

Shrunken Heads (Matt/Mike)

Things (David Harlan)

SPEED KILLS FACTS AND FIGURES

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

Daniel’s craft beer: Moksa Brewing’s OK OK Here You Go (5.0% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Almanac Beer Company’s Hypernova Volume IV (5.8% ABV)

IMDB synopsis: “Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire, Ben Aronoff, leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.”

This week’s referenced movies: Vampire Academy; Forbidden Zone; Pulp Fiction; Gotti; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Lucky Numbers; Bad Boys 2; Sleepaway Camp; My Left Foot; Q: The Winged Serpent; Twilight; Saturday Night Fever; Grease; the Look Who’s Talking films; The Shawshank Redemption; Ultraviolet; The Godfather; Fargo; Rated X; The Fanatic; Love Actually; Captain Phillips

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Speed Kills

The Imperfect Storm

Ben Aronoff v. Robbie Reemer

Look Who’s Talking Too dance scene

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“Lucky Numbers” Movie Review

10 november 2020 | 61 min

lucky numbers

Lucky Numbers – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 76

“Ironic — just another word for saying you’re getting screwed.”

Is it Travolt-ember already? Our annual tribute to Travolta kicks off with a review of Nora Ephron’s catastrophically unfunny Lucky Numbers. This shambling crime-comedy stars Travolta as Russ Richards, a Harrisburg weatherman who schemes to rig the lottery. Ephron gives coastal elitism a bad name by displaying utter contempt for small-town Americans while also cashing in with copious product placement. Many gifted comedic actors flail their way miserably through this trite, tone-deaf sitcom nonsense.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss regional game show hosts, plays about Evil Knievel, and strip club kitchens.

NEW DARE

The Shape of Water (Ben Rice)

LUCKY NUMBERS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 27, 2000

Global box office: $10.9 million (production budget: $63 million)

Critic scores: 22 on Rotten Tomatoes; 31 on Metacritic

Daniel’s craft beer: Temescal Brewing’s Wet Hop Weekend (6.5% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Firestone Walker’s Flyjack 96 (4% ABV)

IMDB synopsis: “A television weatherman scams a local lottery.”

This week’s referenced movies: Grease; Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; Megaforce; Crash (2004); The Gold Rush; Gladiator; Pulp Fiction; Battlefield: Earth; The Little Vampire; The Box; Cabin Boy; The Maltese Falcon; Roger & Me; Fargo; Die Hard; The Fanatic; Miller’s Crossing; Goodfellas; You’ve Got Mail; Mixed Nuts

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Lucky Numbers

Death of Michael Moore

“We Are the Champions”

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“Elvira Mistress of the Dark” Scare Daniel Review

27 oktober 2020 | 44 min

Elvira Mistress of the Dark

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, and Prince Valiant haircuts.

NEW DARE

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (Alistair Dark)

ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft beer: Alvarado Street Brewing’s Fest Bier (5.8% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Big Stump Brewing’s Voltronic Hazy IPA (8.5% ABV)

Theatrical release date: Sept. 30, 1988

Domestic box office: $5.5 million (production budget: $7.5 million)

Critic scores: 50 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s darer: Ryan L. Terry

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? “I am daring you to watch this movie because it’s a fish out of water cult classic! Elvira is an icon that means so much to the horror and LGBT+ communities. Her feature film debut typifies the idea of “camp” and is incredibly rewatchable. It’s equal parts horror, comedy, and satire as it explores the ideas of non-conformity, tradition, acceptance, and resilience.”

IMDB synopsis: “Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.”

This week’s referenced movies: the Cannonball Run movies; Beyond the Seventh Door; The Beautician and the Beast; Easy Money; Twin Sitters; Think Big; Elvira’s Haunted Hills; Rent-a-Cop; Arthur 2: On the Rocks; Norbit; Back to the Future; Cool as Ice; Footloose; 365 Days; Attack of the Killer Tomatoes; Flashdance

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Cooking with Elvira

Las Vegas finale

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“Q The Winged Serpent” Scare Daniel Review

13 oktober 2020 | 65 min

Q The Winged Serpent

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-like” pardons, action scenes set to scat-singing, and undercover mimes.

NEW DARE

Friends With Kids (Colin Williams)

Q: THE WINGED SERPENT FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft beer: Fieldwork Brewing’s Kaffe Latte espresso milk stout (5.8% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Silver Moon Brewing’s F*Cancer IPA (6.5% ABV)

Critic scores: 69 on Rotten Tomatoes

Theatrical release date: November 29, 1982

Domestic box office: $255,000 (production budget: $1.1 million)

This week’s darer: Heather Smith

Why did HOF Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch Q – The Winged Serpent? “Deep down, I really have a love for trash cinema, so I am daring you to watch Q: The Winged Serpent. It’s great for its amazing 1982 special effects. You have a ghastly creature that chomps people like gummy bears, David Carradine, Mother Fucking Shaft, and yes, a boob or two. I recommend you have some drugs, lots of drugs, before watching this movie. It’s not the worst way to spend an hour and a half.”

IMDB synopsis: “NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York, and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.”

This week’s referenced movies: 365 Days; Beyond the Seventh Door; Shaft; Black Caesar; Hell Up in Harlem; the It’s Alive films; Think Big; Megaforce; Backdraft 2; Reservoir Dogs; Dolittle; G.I. Jane; Boogie Nights; Chinatown; Fathers’ Day; Midnight Cowboy

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Q – The Winged Serpent

Rooftop beheading

“Eat ’em! Eat ’em!”

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“365 Days” Podcast Movie Review

29 september 2020 | 54 min

365 Days

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.

NEW DARE

Repligator (Jack Kain)

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 watch 365 Days? “Because you guys loved the 50 Shades trilogy so much, and despite the obvious similarities, this is so much better!”

IMDB synopsis: “Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give her 365 days to fall in love with him.”

This week’s referenced movies: the Fifty Shades trilogy; the Twilight movies; Cool as Ice; The Beautician and the Beast; Fear; Overboard; The Godfather; Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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“Beyond the Seventh Door” Podcast Movie Review

15 september 2020 | 61 min

Beyond the Seventh Door

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, and Lazar Rockwood-related drinking games.

NEW DARES

The Forgotten (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T)

365 Days (Jesse Davis)

BEYOND THE SEVENTH DOOR FACTS AND FIGURES

Daniel’s craft beer: Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse and Allagash’s Virtual Connection Belgian Pale Ale (4.5% ABV)

This week’s darer: Erica Shultz

Why did Erica dare Daniel and Corky to watch Beyond the Seventh Door? “I come across some…interesting movies on Amazon Prime when I’m making my picks for episodes. I very nearly picked this one recently, but didn’t, and ended up watching it that night on my own accord. And holy shit. So many questions. What if Tommy Wisseau was cast in Cube? Did Richard Ramirez take a trip to Canada before his capture to shoot this movie? Is the director, Bozidar Benedikt, an alien? Because that would explain a lot. Am I having fun watching this movie? Absolutely, but I’m also very confused.”

IMDB synopsis: “After meeting up with his ex-lover Wendy, an ex-convict and thief named Boris gets persuaded to do one more heist. He is supposed to help Wendy rob her paraplegic, bourgeois, millionaire boss Lord Breston, which she has been working for as a housemaid. But things turn out to be much more complicated than expected in this exciting horror thriller with a twist ending.”

This week’s referenced movies: The VelociPastor; the Austin Powers movies; Norbit; The Gold Diggers of 1937; The Flamingo Kid; Rain Man; Collateral Beauty; Fat City; Forbidden Zone; Dangerous Men; One from the Heart; Brooklyn Nights; The Graveyard Story; the Saw movies; Aloha; the Indiana Jones movies; the Robert Langdon movies; The Most Dangerous Game

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Beyond the Seventh Door trailer

“I don’t like it at all!”

Idiots solving “puzzles”

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“Dangerous Men” Podcast Movie Review

1 september 2020 | 75 min

Dangerous Men movie John S. Rad

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 one medium after another, yet his magnum opus remains a strangely fascinating watch.

While hunting for Black Pepper’s house, Daniel and Corky discuss buttcrack knives, Hard Rock Cafe baseball jerseys, and inexplicable belly-dancing.

NEW DARE

Song of Norway (Tim Sika)

DANGEROUS MEN FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: September 23, 2005

Daniel’s craft beer: Alvarado Street’s Black Is Beautiful (12.5% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Urban Roots and Slice Beer’s Urban Slice DIPA (8% ABV)

This week’s darer: Jaina Sinclair

Why did Jaina Sinclair dare Daniel and Corky to watch Dangerous Men? “Dangerous Men is undoubtedly the most confusing, nonsensical, meandering, plotless movie I have ever seen. At no point do fancy film terms like “narrative” or “cohesion” enter this movie’s dictionary, and now you have to watch it. I’m sorry to drag you into this, Corky. Suffer well, gentlemen.”

IMDB synopsis: “After her fiancé is killed and she is almost sexually assaulted, a woman becomes an avenger of the night seeking to kill all dangerous men who would harm women. Meanwhile, her fiancé’s cop brother also seeks to bring down the biker gang associated with the murder.”

This week’s referenced movies: Street Fighter (1994); The Sound of Music; The Room; Love On a Leash; Defending Your Life; Heat; Lady and the Tramp; Monster; It Happened One Night

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Theatrical re-release trailer

David vs. Black Pepper vs. SFX

The Chief checks his script

John S. Rad promotes Dangerous Men on Queer Edge

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“Think Big” Podcast Movie Review

18 augusti 2020 | 59 min

Think Big podcast movie review

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 called Media. Set somewhere in “Montana, the Present,” the film pits the truck-driving brothers against evil Martin Mull and a litany of ticking clocks.

On their way to becoming “Robin Leach rich,” Daniel and Corky discuss big rig voodoo, Groucho glasses, and evil inventions.

NEW DARE

The Jesus Rolls (Julio from The Contrarians)

THINK BIG FACTS AND FIGURES

Video release date: May 9, 1990

Domestic box office gross: n/a

This week’s craft beer: Laughing Monk Brewing’s Black Is Beautiful (10% ABV)

This week’s darer: Mike Dub

Why did Mike Dub dare Daniel and Corky to watch Think Big? “I remember this movie being on constantly in my preteen cable watching days. I don’t remember anything specific about it, but it’s got to be one of the worst movies ever made. Starring the “Barbarian Twins,” Peter Paul and David Paul as shenanigan-prone truck drivers who pick up a teenage nerd. Sort of like Over the Top, if that movie had two Stallones but no arm wrestling.”

IMDB synopsis: “Two somewhat retarded truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.”

This week’s referenced movies: Over the Top; Conan the Barbarian; The Big Lebowski; The Barbarians (1987); Double Trouble (1992); Double Impact; Mr. Nanny; Twin Sitters; Three Ninjas; Cool Runnings; Phenomenon; Instinct; The Kid (2000); the National Treasure movies; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010); Last Vegas; The Meg; Natural Born Killers; No Holds Barred; All the President’s Men; Deadfall; Happy Gilmore; The Man With the Golden Gun; Moonraker; Dolittle; Driving Me Crazy

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Theatrical trailer for Think Big

Airport fight hijinx

The Barbarian Brothers and Richard Kiel on Japanese TV

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“Fathers’ Day” Podcast Movie Review

4 augusti 2020 | 63 min

Fathers Day Billy Crystal Robin Williams

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 1990s ska-punk, and pointless softball games.

NEW DARES

Surf II (Andrew Reyes)

Dangerous Men (Jaina Sinclair)

FATHERS’ DAY FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: May 9, 1997

Domestic box office gross: $28.6 million (production budget: $85 million)

Critic scores: 25 on Rotten Tomatoes; 43 on Metacritic

Daniel’s craft beer: Alvarado Street and Moonraker’s Spaced Out DIPA (8.5% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse’s No One Taught That To Me Yet spelt saison (8.5% ABV)

This week’s darer: Leo Logan

Why did Leo dare Daniel and Corky to watch Fathers’ Day? “Because it’s a case of bankable leads and a top director at the time that resulted in an unfunny mess. Good luck!”

IMDB synopsis: “A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy’s father.”

This week’s referenced movies: Les Comperes; The Man With One Red Shoe; The Toy; Pure Luck; Three Fugitives; Dinner for Schmucks; The Birdcage; Street Fighter; Back to the Future; Good Will Hunting; The Fifth Element; 2016: Obama’s America; A Nightmare on Elm Street; Deliverance; Home Alone; Saw; The Stepfather; Private Parts

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Theatrical trailer for Fathers’ Day

Robin and Billy Meet Sugar Ray

Hot coffee hilarity

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“Dolittle” Podcast Movie Review

21 juli 2020 | 62 min

Dolittle (2020)

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

Blast from the Past (Darcey Self)

Xanadu (Andrew Reyes)

DOLITTLE FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: Jan. 17, 2020

Domestic box office gross: $77 million (production budget: $175 million)

Critic scores: 14 on Rotten Tomatoes; 26 on Metacritic

Daniel’s craft beer: Moksa Brewing’s River Kolsch (5.6% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Berryessa Brewing’s Free Kittens Rice Lager (5.0% ABV)

This week’s darer: David Paul

Why did David Paul dare Daniel and Corky to watch Dolittle? “I know a lot of people still think of Robert Downey Jr. as nothing more than the son of Morton Downey Jr. But I’m here to tell you he’s breaking out of his father’s substantial shadow in Dolittle. Yours Respectfully, Jan Michael Vincent.”

IMDB synopsis: “A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets.”

This week’s referenced movies: Assassins; Forbidden Zone; Doctor Dolittle (1967); Dr. Dolittle (1998); Scarface (1983); Serendipity; Gigli; Outfoxed; Uncovered: The War on Iraq; Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price; Down to Earth (1947); Can’t Stop the Music; Megaforce; Bounce; Jurassic Park; The Call of the Wild (2020); Cats; Joker; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Powder; The Big Lebowski; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012); Norbit; Mary Poppins (1964); Aquaman; Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Donnie Darko; Kramer vs. Kramer; Blockers; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; Ultraviolet

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Gorilla chess

Dragon farts

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“Backdraft 2” Podcast Movie Review

7 juli 2020 | 50 min

Backdraft 2

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 likes or remembers.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Naugahyde jockeys, fire labs, and arson duels.

NEW DARES

Pink Flamingos (Jason)

Death of a Nation (Tim Crump)

BACKDRAFT 2 FACTS AND FIGURES

Streaming release date: May 14, 2019

Critic scores: 40 on Rotten Tomatoes

Daniel’s craft beer: Urban Roots Brewing‘s Comfort Hamster Unfiltered Rustic Pilsner (5.0% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Planetary Fog Hazy IPA (7.5% IPA)

This week’s darer: The Ghost of Bull McCaffrey

Why did The Ghost of Bull McCaffrey dare Daniel and Corky to watch Backdraft 2? “Guys, they made a sequel to a terrible Ron Howard movie. As soon as I wrote that, I realized that’s too broad of a category. The movie in question is Backdraft 2: Backdraftier. In this sequel, my adult son is now an arson investigator with the Chicago Fire Department. Much like his old man, he’s a lone wolf with fire running in his veins. Billy Baldwin reprises his role as my brother again, only this time he’s Uncle Assistant Deputy Fire Commissioner Brian McCaffrey. The plot concerns some kids that die in a fire on Halloween. It turns out this fire may have been set by some terrorists as a diversion to steal missiles. Good luck with that.”

IMDB synopsis: “The sequel to the 1991 hit, follows an investigator with the Chicago F.D., who has to track down an arms dealer who use deadly fires as a distraction.”

This week’s referenced movies: Backdraft; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; The Tin Drum; Deadfall; Final Destination; Lone Wolf McQuade; The Silence of the Lambs; Manhunter (1986); Assassins (1995); Top Gun; Gotti; Dolittle; Lethal Weapon 2; Bio-Dome

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Trailer for Backdraft 2

Theatrical trailer for Backdraft (1991)

Lethal Weapon 2 toilet bomb

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“Krull” Podcast Movie Review

23 juni 2020 | 59 min

Krull Podcast Movie Review

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 cookie-cutter Star Wars clone, and the soundstage stuff feels incredibly clunky. It doesn’t help that he got saddled with lead actors devoid of charisma and chemistry. However, the film comes to life whenever it travels outside of the studio, and generally exudes old-fashioned charm.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss emo cyclops, fire mares, archetype gangs, and Krull 2 Kickstarter campaigns.

NEW DARE

Johnny Mnemonic (Brad from The Cinema Guys)

KRULL FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: July 29, 1983

Domestic box office: $16.5 million (production budget: $30 million)

Critic scores: 32 on Rotten Tomatoes; 45 on Metacritic

This week’s craft coffee: Tree House Coffee Company’s Peru Estrella Divina

This week’s darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch Krull? “This is a story about a prince, who is going to marry a princess, and a large Cthulhu creature captures her, for some reason, it’s not important. The special effects are awful. You might catch explosive diarrhea from all the constant, jarring cut scenes. It feels like it was made by someone who was on a lot of acid. Or, a six-year-old telling a nonsense story that goes on and on and makes no sense, and you wish the kid would just get to the ending already. This movie is confusing and awful, so of course, I love it. I hope you fellas will enjoy it too.”

IMDB synopsis: “A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Jerky Boys Movie; Forbidden Zone; Bullitt; John and Mary; The Friends of Eddie Coyle; Breaking Away; The Dresser; Star Wars movies; Excalibur; Lord of the Rings movies; Ice Pirates; Any Which Way You Can; Warcraft; Rawhead Rex; National Lampoon’s Animal House; The Warrior and the Sorceress; West Side Story; Battlefield: Earth; Free Solo; Osmosis Jones; Erik the Viking; Love on a Leash; The Man Who Killed Don Quixote; The Neverending Story; Blazing Saddles; Beauty and the Beast; Clash of the Titans; Harry Potter movies; Braveheart; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Trailer for Krull

Battle in the swamps

All the Cyclops scenes

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“Street Fighter” (1994) Podcast Movie Review

9 juni 2020 | 60 min

Street Fighter (1994)

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 the dictatorial Col. Bison, played by a near-death Raul Julia. Although they agree the film is pure schlock, Daniel found it offensive and annoying, while Corky had fun with it. Whatever your take, the film is undeniably ugly, chaotic and stupid.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss DNA mutagens, hover shoes, gasoline-powered televisions and undercover circus gymnasts.

NEW DARES

Jack Frost (1997) (Kelli Johnson)

Dolittle (David Paul)

STREET FIGHTER (1994) FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: Dec. 24, 1994

Domestic box office: $33.4 million (production budget: $35 million)

Critic scores: 11 on Rotten Tomatoes

Daniel’s craft beer: Alvarado Street’s Cool Runoffs Hazy DIPA (8.1% ABV)

Corky’s craft beer: King Cong’s El Campeon Lager (4.4% ABV)

This week’s dare: Jaina Sinclair

Why did Jaina dare Daniel and Corky to watch Street Fighter (1994)? “What I thought was a great movie as a kid somehow became an even better movie as an adult. It’s a truly schlocky action movie that bears little resemblance to the game it’s inspired from, but still manages to have genuinely good bits. After all the turds I and so many others have sent your way, I hope this one will bring a little joy in your lives.”

IMDB synopsis: “Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Distinguished Gentleman; Jack Frost (1998); Star Trek movies; 48 Hours; Commando; The Running Man; Hudson Hawk; Ricochet; Die Hard; Die Hard 2; The Flintstones (1994); Beverly Hills Cop III; Jumpin’ Jack Flash; Destination Wedding; Bio-Dome; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Norbit; Austin Powers movies; Old Yeller; Godzilla movies; Desperado; The Addams Family movies; Megaforce

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

“Straight to My Feet” by Hammer feat. Deion Sanders

Guile vs. Bison

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“Destination Wedding” Podcast Movie Review

26 maj 2020 | 52 min

Destination Wedding Dare Daniel Podcast Movie Review

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 time-filling, sub-Kevin Smith prattle.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss mountain lion attacks, Calvinball matches and whine-and-cheese pairings.

NEW DARES

Street Fighter (1994) (Jaina Sinclair)

Miss March (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T)

DESTINATION WEDDING FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: Aug. 30, 2018 (in Ukraine and the Czech Republic)

International box office: $2.1 million (production budget: $5 million)

Critic scores: 53 on Rotten Tomatoes; 46 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beers: Moksa/Claimstake’s All the Rage collaboration DIPL (Daniel); Urban Roots Brewing’s Pebbles and Marbles grisette (Corky)

This week’s dare: Keanu Reeves

Why did John Wick dare Daniel and Corky to watch Destination Wedding? “Longtime listener, first-time submitter. I know how you love romantic comedies, so I submit to you the anti-romantic comedy. I love it, and it seems that the reactions are binary: love it or hate it. ‘Too much talking.’ Wah.”

IMDB synopsis: “The story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, Lindsay and Frank, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cutthroat Island; Johnny Mnemonic; Norbit; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Backdraft; Black Mama, White Mama; A Scanner Darkly; Cats

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

Wildcat “attack” scene

Keanu carries Winona

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“Deadfall” (1993) Podcast Movie Review

12 maj 2020 | 68 min

Deadfall (1993) Nicolas Cage

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. Unfortunately, the lead role and most of the screentime goes to Michael Biehn, who brings the gravitas of Mr. Bean to his hardboiled con man role. As far as Cage goes over the top, Biehn goes exactly as far under the bottom.

Deadfall features some classic Cage freak-outs, but the film is unwatchably atrocious whenever he’s offscreen. Coppola reaches for some hardboiled noir existentialism, but the film is only existential in that it made us want to die.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss villainous food courts, gratuitous sex scenes, Perry Farrell-esque henchmen, and “Sam fucking Peckinpah.”

NEW DARES

Chupacabra vs. the Alamo (Matthew Dougherty)

Saturn 3 (The Ghost of Kirk Douglas)

DEADFALL (1993) FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: Oct. 8, 1993

Domestic box office: $18,000 (production budget: $10 million)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes (6 reviews)

This week’s craft beer: Urban Roots Brewing‘s All Together IPA (6.5% ABV)

This week’s darer: Jordan Farrell

Why did Jordan dare Daniel and Corky to watch Deadfall? “Hey, guys! I recently stumbled upon your podcast via the r/bad movies subreddit, and I haven’t stopped listening to it since! However, I noticed you haven’t covered the enigma lunatic that is Nicholas Cage. I double-dog dare you to watch the movie Deadfall. Nicolas Cage is really the showcase of this. His performance is as insane as it was in Wild at Heart, except without any direction other than his own. Please please watch this, you won’t regret it.”

IMDB synopsis: “When Joe loses his dad in a sting, he contacts his dad’s twin, Lou, who has a major sting planned. Lou’s helper feels threatened by Joe. Who’s conning who?”

This week’s referenced movies: Vampire’s Kiss; Red Rock West; Goodfellas; Apocalypse Now; This Is Spinal Tap; Street Fighter (1994); The Sting; Roxanne; Napoleon Dynamite; Leprechaun in the Hood; Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS; Cutthroat Island; Blue Velvet; Green Book; Sleepaway Camp; Austin Powers movies; The Color of Money; Dr. No; Edward Scissorhands; Arsenal; The Terminator; Aliens; Tombstone; Forbidden Zone; Glengarry Glen Ross

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Special thanks: Playable Characters Podcast

“The Ultimate Nic Cage Cut”

Biehn vs. Sheen

Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?

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“Megaforce” Podcast Movie Review

28 april 2020 | 82 min

Megaforce (1982)

Megaforce – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 62

“Get ready for a high-speed moccasin blowout!”

Although still social distancing, Daniel and Corky welcome comedian and Barley & Me host Ben Rice on this week’s episode. Ben even supplied a flavor-forward beer from Flatland Brewing to contrast with this week’s flavorless film.

Directed and co-written by stuntman Hal Needham, Megaforce stars a gravitas-free Barry Bostwick as paramilitary “hero” Ace Hunter, leader of a secret fighting force that makes no attempt at secrecy. This clumsy attempt to meld Reagan-era politics into a Mad Max meets Star Wars mashup is the opposite of badass. A 65-minute movie that is 99 minutes long, Megaforce feels like the unaired pilot for an unwatchable TV show. Meanwhile, the opening credits of Megaforce tout the use of Introvision and Zoptic, both presumably street words for cocaine.

Elsewhere, the group discusses laser labs, Skoal t-shirts, LBGTQ-friendly chutes, flying motorcycles, and thumbs-up kisses.

MEGAFORCE FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release date: June 25, 1982

Domestic box office: $5.7 million (production budget: $20 million)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Flatland Brewing‘s Flannel Jacket (11.8% ABV)

This week’s darer: Dean Longenecker

Why did Dean dare Daniel and Corky to watch Megaforce? “Where to start? Barry Bostwick as an action star? Has the hair for it. Michael Beck as the sidekick? Also the hair for it. Persis Khambatta (with hair), Henry Silva, always awesome bad guy. The old guy from Knight Rider? Hal Needham directing? Five writers who tried to write an action movie, a cast who thought this a campy, spoof action flick. Pure money grab by the producers. Failed miserably. Action is OK, for the early 70s, but it’s made in the 80s. Gold lame bodysuits that are way too tight? The legendary motorcycle scene? Worth a review.”

IMDB synopsis: “Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.”

This week’s referenced movies: Smokey and the Bandit movies; The Cannonball Run films; Hooper; Stroker Ace; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial; Blade Runner; Rocky III; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Poltergeist (1982); The Thing (1982); Inchon; Mad Max: Fury Road; The Empire Strikes Back; Duck Soup; Team America: World Police; The Birth of a Nation (1915); Kill Bill: Vol. 1; the Star Wars movies; The Wizard of Oz; Metropolis; The Neverending Story

RELATED CLIPS

Theatrical trailer for Megaforce

Introducing…Ace Hunter!

Flying motorcycle scene

Romantic parachuting scene

The opening sequence of Team America: World Police

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“Forbidden Zone” Podcast Movie Review

14 april 2020 | 58 min

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 shit cakes the walls of the film, including surreal music numbers, silent-movie intertitles, and noxious racial stereotypes. It’s frequently offensive and never clever, but it remains a unique and strangely magical movie.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss local pimps, frog butlers, human chandeliers and electrified dildos.

NEW DARES

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (Ryan L. Terry)

Snowpiercer (Matthew Dougherty)

FORBIDDEN ZONE FACTS AND FIGURES

Critic scores: 89 on Rotten Tomatoes; 64 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Heretic Brewing’s You Can’t Handle the Juice NE DIPA (8.5% ABV)

This week’s darer: Alex Shewmaker

Why did Alex dare Daniel and Corky to watch Forbidden Zone? “Wow! Where to begin! Danny Elfman not only does the music but also plays satan in the “sixth dimension.” What more could you ask for!?!?”

IMDB synopsis: “The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family’s basement.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Beautician and the Beast; China Salesman; Parasite; Weird Science; Freeway; Tiptoes; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Eraserhead; Pink Flamingos; Shock Treatment; Caligula; Hellzapoppin; The VelociPastor; Rock ‘n’ Roll High School; Sleepaway Camp; Rocky; The Godfather; The Godfather Part II; Citizen Kane;

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

“Bim Bam Boom”

“Alphabet Song”

Opening scenes of Hellzapoppin

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“Cats” (2019) Podcast Movie Review

31 mars 2020 | 63 min

Cats (2019)

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 into Humanimal hybrids straight out of Dr. Moreau’s laboratory.

A money pit of terrible ideas executed terribly, Cats (2019) stands as a monument to ineptitude and unimaginativeness. Everything looks disturbingly wrong from the very first frame right through to the very last. Meanwhile, the musty and forgettable songs nod to musical genres already outdated by the early 1980s. In other words, if you like mangy cat-blobs singing mangy song-blobs, this is the film for you.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pirate cats, butthole cuts, sexualized cockroaches and Chekhov’s catskin.

CATS (2019) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 20, 2019

Domestic box office: $27 million (production budget: $95 million)

Critic scores: 20 on Rotten Tomatoes; 32 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beers: Urban Roots Brewing’s Isolate (Corky); Moksa Brewing’s Mostra 6 (Daniel)

IMDB synopsis: “A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Lion King; Aladdin (1992); The King’s Speech; Les Misérables (2012); Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker; The Phantom of the Opera; Memento; Glass; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Black Panther; The Identical; Sexy Beast; Waiting for Guffman; The Running Man; Feds

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Anne Hathaway snot-sings “I Dreamed a Dream”

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“Norbit” Podcast Movie Review

16 mars 2020 | 63 min

Norbit Eddie Murphy

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 version of the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Her monstrousness is the film’s one joke, offered in endless non-variations.

The two saving graces to Norbit are Murphy’s go-for-broke performance, 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 designed for children that no child should ever be allowed to watch.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss turkey ass, fart snores, power tap teachers and pimp-licious makeovers.

NEW DARES

Evan Almighty (Ben Parker)

Backdraft 2 (The Ghost of Bull McCaffrey)

NORBIT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 9, 2007

Domestic box office: $95.7 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 27 on Metacritic

This week’s craft coffee: Chapman Crafted Coffee’s First Roast (Single-Origin Guatemala)

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

Why did Wolfie T dare Daniel and Corky to watch Norbit? “Norbit is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, but I only know about five people who have actually seen it. When I saw it in the theatre, my friend and I were the only ones there. When I mention it to people, I get eye rolls, groans, sarcastic laughs, and the most common comment is, “That movie sucks…I haven’t seen it.” No other movie podcast would dare touch this one, not even the one I co-host!”

IMDB synopsis: “A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.”

This week’s referenced movies: The VelociPastor; Love on a Leash; Angels & Demons; Inferno; Fight Club; Bruce Almighty; Backdraft; Top Gun; the Nutty Professor movies; Boomerang; Harlem Nights; Ready to Rumble; Meet Dave; A Thousand Words; the Star Wars prequels; I Know Who Killed Me; Dreamgirls; the Madea movies; Coming to America; Forrest Gump; the Harry Potter movies; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Road House (1989); My Name Is Dolemite

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Boxing argument from Coming to America

“This is our town, and don’t you forget it.”

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“The VelociPastor” Podcast Movie Review

3 mars 2020 | 64 min

The VelociPastor

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 with a pancreas of pewter.

An absurd premise played absurdly for absurdity’s sake, The VelociPastor divided the hosts. Corky found the film funny and charming, but Daniel felt that the jokes didn’t land. The VelociPastor certainly leans into its micro-budget ineptitude. However, that pervasively smug self-awareness only makes the labored comedy bits more aggravating.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss wormhole juice, ginger ninjas, dragon warrior antidotes and Aristophanes references.

NEW DARES

Charlie’s Angels (2019) (Charlie)

Kung Pao: Enter the Fist (William K. Wolfrum)

THE VELOCIPASTOR FACTS AND FIGURES

VOD release date: Aug. 13, 2019

Critic scores: 58 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Moonraker and Almanac’s Time Bender Hazy DIPA (8% ABV)

This week’s darer: Jaylen Mason

Why did Jaylen dare Daniel and Corky to watch The VelociPastor? “Because I don’t have the courage to watch it myself.”

IMDB synopsis: “After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.”

This week’s referenced movies: Love Actually; Titanic (1997); Love on a Leash; Fight Club; The Birds; Ed Wood; Hard to Kill; Charlie’s Angels (2000); Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Grindhouse; Sharknado; Birdemic; Spider-Man; The Graduate; Schindler’s List; Pan’s Labyrinth; Apocalypse Now; Airplane!; Top Secret!; The Great Escape; Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!; Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; God’s Not Dead 2; The Runaway Jury; This Is Spinal Tap; Jurassic Park; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo; Dragged Across Concrete; the Star Wars movies; Alien; The Two Popes; The Girlfriend Experience; Hollywood Shuffle; The Foot Fist Way; Citizen Kane

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Trailer for The VelociPastor

The pastor becomes…the VelociPastor!

Forbes article about Brendan Steere

“You’re an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.”

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“Love on a Leash” Podcast Movie Review

18 februari 2020 | 70 min

Love on a Leash

Love on a Leash – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 57

“My name is Alvin Flang.”

Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell meet ineptitude with ineptitude in this technical issue-laden episode. This week, the hosts review Fen Tian’s unfathomably incompetent romantic comedy Love on a Leash. Fitting with a film that features myriad sound issues, Daniel and Corky bungled the audio on this one. However, it weirdly harmonizes with a movie that is essentially one bonkers nonsequitur after another.

A movie so dangerous that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, Love on a Leash is a truly unusual experience. Tian makes some of the most confounding, insane and possibly brilliant (but definitely insane) directorial decisions you could imagine. There is no musical score, but there is a credited composer. This light-hearted rom-com fantasy gives us scenes of attempted suicide and attempted rape, not to mention a tacit approval of bestiality. Also, the villain is a pond.

Technically, Love on a Leash is the highest-rated film of all-time on IMDB (thanks, internet!). But is it fake news, or is it the real deal?

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pointless ducks, Judge Reinhold high-fives, Ace bandage bras and pizza-faced cinderblocks.

LOVE ON A LEASH FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. DVD release date: Aug. 19, 2013

Critic scores: n/a

This week’s craft beer: Lead Dog Brewing‘s The Dankster Double IPA (8.8% ABV)

This week’s darer: Erica Shultz, host of the Customers Also Watched podcast

Why did Erica dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love on a Leash? “This movie is a triumph of ineptitude. There is no score or soundtrack, nothing makes sense, characters are color-coded, and everything is just hilariously bad. It’s a train wreck from which you can’t look away.”

IMDB synopsis: “Love takes a furry twist in this slice of romantic comedy. A young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret: by night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of the golden retriever and the friend who gives him a home.”

This week’s referenced movies: Forbidden Kiss; Look Who’s Talking Now; Theodore Rex; Like Father, Like Son; Vice Versa; Love Actually; Psycho (1960); Fargo; Goodfellas; 1917; Teen Wolf (1985); The Room; The Social Network; The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Trailer for Love on a Leash

Ralph the Movie Maker reacts to “I’m a Dog”

Interview with actor Robert Lanza (aka Frank)

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Dare Daniel Podcast: All Dares Episode 2

4 februari 2020 | 61 min

“God’s Not Dead 2” Podcast Movie Review

21 januari 2020 | 69 min

God's Not Dead 2 podcast movie review

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 many of our “favorites” from the original film, including the loathsome Pastor Dave and a cancer-free Liberal Amy. Like its predecessor, God’s Not Dead 2 wants to use science to discredit science, presenting scripture as “facts” while also applying a “minimal facts method.” Meanwhile, the movie portrays the Deep South as a hotbed of anti-Christian fervor. Naturally, this all leads to a Kafka-esque sham trial imagined by someone who watched parts of two Law & Order episodes.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Copernicus moments, closet Christians and Ray Wise headshots.

NEW DARES

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure (Jaina Sinclair)

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Nathan Hansen)

GOD’S NOT DEAD 2 FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: March 30, 2016

Domestic box office: $20.8 million (production budget: $5 million)

Critic scores: 8 on Rotten Tomatoes; 22 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Moonraker Brewing‘s Benevolent Overlord Triple IPA (10% ABV, 100 IBUs)

IMDB synopsis: “When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her response lands her in deep trouble.”

This week’s referenced movies: God’s Not Dead; Warcraft; the Lord of the Rings movies; Quo Vadis; The Ten Commandments (1956); Heat; Avengers: Endgame; A Chorus Line; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; The Empire Strikes Back; The Runaway Jury; The Exorcist; Revenge of the Nerds

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Grace takes a stand

GND2 post-credits stinger

The πs’ Serenade from Revenge of the Nerds

Nero punishes the Christians from Quo Vadis

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“God’s Not Dead” (2014) Podcast Movie Review

7 januari 2020 | 64 min

God's Not Dead (2014)

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 weeks to review the film’s even more misbegotten sequel, God’s Not Dead 2. Until that deuce drops, enjoy this replay of the Dare Daniel review of God’s Not Dead.

GOD’S NOT DEAD (2014) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: March 21, 2014

Domestic box office: $60.7 million (production budget: $2 million)

Critic scores: 13 on Rotten Tomatoes; 16 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Dust Bowl Brewing Company‘s Hops of Wrath (6.6%)

This week’s Darer: Mike Dub

Why did Mike Dub dare Daniel and Corky to watch God’s Not Dead (2014)? “I don’t know if this movie will be the outright worst you’ve watched, at least not in terms of fundamental cinematographic ineptitude. It sounds like it would be tough to top, say, Theodore Rex in that sense. But I do think God’s Not Dead has a good chance of being up there with the most grating and frustrating movies you’ve watched. I hope it’s as torturous as I think it will be.”

IMDB synopsis: “College philosophy professor Mr. Radisson’s curriculum is challenged by his new student, Josh, who believes God exists.”

This week’s referenced movies: Theodore Rex; the entire Fifty Shades movie trilogy; God’s Not Dead 2; God’s Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness; The Inconvenient Truth; Crash; Cutthroat Island

Ratings for God’s Not Dead: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer

The Newsboys have a very special message

Amy the Evil Liberal supercut

Josh converts the heathens

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“Saving Christmas” Podcast Movie Review

24 december 2019 | 55 min

Kirk Cameron Saving Christmas

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 version of “Silent Night” that plays over the opening credits to the 10-minute end credits sequence filled with bloopers and beatboxing, this is a 79-minute film that feels like it will never end. This condescending and monomaniacal movie wants to safeguard Christmas for the children, while also convincing those children to reimagine Christmas trees as bloody crucifixes. According to Cameron, mere ambivalence about the commercialization of the holidays is “a slap in the face to the true meaning of Christmas.” That’s his level of crazy.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss hot cocoa fetishes, prideful trees and the mysterious disappearance of Baby Jesus.

NEW DARES

The Cat (Doug Glassman)

Knowing (Courtney)

SAVING CHRISTMAS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Nov. 14, 2014

Domestic box office gross: $2.8 million (production budget: $500,000)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 18 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Gav from the Films on Trial podcast

Why did Gav dare Daniel and Corky to watch Saving Christmas? “Hi, guys! Listening to you heathens hilariously bash that Bible-bashing classic God’s Not Dead, I thought that you may want to review a real test of willpower, in the form of the cinematic turd that is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas. I stumbled upon it last year, and I still haven’t fully recovered. I guarantee that if you watch it in December, it will ruin your Christmas. Apologies a thousand times. I hope we can still be friends after this?”

IMDB synopsis: “His annual Christmas party faltering thanks to his cynical brother-in-law, former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron attempts to save the day by showing him that Jesus Christ remains a crucial component of the over-commercialized holiday.”

This week’s referenced movies: Dark City; Gods of Egypt; I, Robot; Left Behind (2014); The Legend of Hercules; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014); Transformers: Age of Extinction; the Saw movies; Loose Change; Lord of the Rings movies; The Jerk; It’s a Wonderful Life; A Christmas Carol; Coming to America; Breakin’; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Zero Dark Thirty; Hollywood Shuffle; Ultraviolet; The Warrior and the Sorceress

Ratings for Saving Christmas: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Family Force Five hip-hop dance sequence

Christmas cups and conspiracy theories

Food fight from Animal House

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“Love Actually” Podcast Movie Review

10 december 2019 | 100 min

Love actually podcast movie review

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 from the dodgy end of Wandsworth.

Love Actually may have its defenders, but our wasted hearts will always hate this horrible movie. The film exhibits a real soft spot for sexual predators, while also promoting the notion that Christmas is the perfect time to publicly dump your love on the near-stranger you’re tenderly stalking. Writer-director Richard Curtis sets the treacle bar in the opening minutes with a casual 9/11 reference. However, that bit of emotional blackmail barely plumbs the depths of Curtis’ horndog shamelessness.

Elsewhere, Daniel, Corky and Gavin discuss wedding flash mobs, turtleneck sweater budgets and “wee motherless mongrels.”

NEW DARES

Mr. Brooks (Mike Dub)

Hercules in New York (Michael Bagamery)

LOVE ACTUALLY FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Nov. 7, 2003

Domestic box office: $59.7 million (production budget: $40-45 million)

Critic scores: 64 on Rotten Tomatoes; 55 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Almanac Beer Company‘s Love Hazy IPA (6.1% ABV)

This week’s darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love Actually? “It’s that magical time of year when every person checks into Facebook to share they are watching Love Actually. A true turd-fest full if cringe-y dialogue, vapid, horrible characters, and one of the more embarrassing dance scenes I can recall. It bewilders me that this movie has sustained such love through the years. It’s like Lifetime wrote a Christmas movie, but could afford better actors. Merry Christmas!”

IMDB synopsis: “Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.”

This week’s referenced movies: Bula Quo!; God’s Not Dead; Renaissance Man; Battlefield: Earth; Stay Hungry; Pumping Iron; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers; Pulp Fiction; An American Werewolf in Paris; The Music Man; Heaven’s Gate; the Bridget Jones movies; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); The Long Good Friday; Die Hard; The Princess Bride; Rear Window; Driller Killer; Titanic (1997); Ghostbusters (1984); Say Anything; Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Bugsy Malone; The Quiet Man

Ratings for Love Actually: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare; Gav – Double Dare

“To me you are perfect”

The Dancing Prime Minister

“Every Sperm Is Sacred”

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“Battlefield Earth” Podcast Movie Review

26 november 2019 | 71 min

Battlefield Earth

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 released on over 3,300 screens.

Bearing the marks of a movie made to defraud a German production company, Battlefield Earth overdoses on Dutch angles and slow-motion shots. Meanwhile, the film fails to follow basic cinematic guidelines about screen direction and matching eye-lines. However, the film still makes us “as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango.” Whatever the hell that means.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss learning machines, corporate crapheads, ironic punishments, intergalactic bankers, Fred Dibnah references and gastro-extermination sequences.

NEW DARES

The Time Traveler’s Wife (Coreen Lemcke)

Death to Smoochy (Ben Rice)

BATTLEFIELD EARTH FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: May 12, 2000

Domestic box office: $21.5 million (production budget: $75 million)

Critic scores: 3 on Rotten Tomatoes; 9 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Planetary Fog NE-style DIPA (7.5% ABV)

This week’s darer: Michael Bagamery

Why did Michael dare Daniel and Corky to watch Battlefield Earth? “Battlefield Earth has been a bumper crop for nearly every bad-movie fan out there. Can you find some more unscathed parts of its body’s flesh? Can you torture it even more uniquely?”

IMDB synopsis: “It’s the year 3000 A.D.; the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, whom are unaware that their ‘man-animals’ are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Butcher’s Wife; Warcraft; National Treasure; Pulp Fiction; Get Shorty; Michael; Phenomenon; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; The Butterfly Effect; The Art of War; The Whole Nine Yards; Best Worst Movie; Moment by Moment; Staying Alive; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Cloud Atlas; Revolution; the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise; L4yer Cake; Ultraviolet; Blade Runner; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Two Moon Junction; Spartacus; various King Kong movies; The Dirty Dozen; Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Fanatic; The Warrior and the Sorceress

Ratings for Battlefield Earth: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Psychlo laugh supercut

“Have you blown a head gasket?”

Every “true true” in Cloud Atlas

Blade Runner glass crash scene

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“The Fanatic” Podcast Movie Review

12 november 2019 | 59 min

The Fanatic John Travolta Devon Sawa

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 Hunter Dunbar. The film offers all the hardcore authenticity you would expect from a Hollywood story shot in Birmingham, Alabama.

For his part, Travolta swings for the fences. If you judged acting by volume alone, Travolta would win every Oscar for his performance. His extreme commitment to making terrible acting choices and overdosing on character tics forms a backward version of integrity. Travolta is the only reason to watch this atrociously conceived and executed traffic accident, even if he is awful.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss bathroom bullying, vape pen fellatio, Eminem envy and stunt doubles with small asses.

NEW DARES

Christmas with the Kranks (Julio from The Contrarians podcast)

The Ridiculous 6 (Adam Sandler)

THE FANATIC FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: August 30, 2019

Domestic box office: $3,153 on opening day

Critic scores: 18 on Rotten Tomatoes; 17 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Moonraker Brewing‘s Galaxy Crush (6.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Jaina Sinclair

Why did Jaina dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Fanatic? “I don’t even know if this movie is out yet, but it looks absolutely atrocious. Maybe it’s a bit cruel asking you guys to pay to watch it, but you can’t make an omelet without a pan, a spatula, a heat source, and breaking a few eggs.”

IMDB synopsis: “A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star’s life.”

This week’s referenced movies: Gotti; Brainscan; Vampire Academy; An American Werewolf in Paris; Silent Night, Deadly Night Part II; Surviving Christmas; Deck the Halls; Little Nicky; Mr. Deeds; The Wedding Singer; The Waterboy; Click; Murder Mystery; Blended; Cool as Ice; The Education of Charlie Banks; The Longshots; Cruising; Tropic Thunder; The Shining; Fight Club; Rocky III; Pulp Fiction; Taxi Driver; Reservoir Dogs; the Halloween franchise; the Friday the 13th franchise; Top Secret!; the Rambo franchise; Casino; Batman; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; The King of Comedy

Ratings for The Fanatic: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Moose chokes Todd the God

Selfies with a sleeping Hunter

Simple Jack trailer from Tropic Thunder

Butch meets Vincent in Pulp Fiction

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“Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2” Podcast Movie Review

29 oktober 2019 | 64 min

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

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 flashback episode, only with significantly more stabbings.

The film is anchored, for lack of a better word, by the tour-de-force performance of Eric Freeman as Ricky. Blurring the line between sublime and terrible, Freeman is memorable for all the wrong (and right) reasons. He’s so bizarrely over-the-top, so unnatural in his mannerisms and line readings, that he legitimately seems insane. It’s weirdly effective, never more so than during Ricky’s inexplicable “garbage day” rampage.

After enjoying dinner at the Chez Ritz, Daniel and Corky discuss baby memories, umbrella murders and reindeer death fantasies.

NEW DARES

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Marco Cabodi)

The Left Behind trilogy (Buck Williams)

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: April 10, 1987

Domestic box office: $154,000 (production budget: $100,000)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Urban Roots/Slice’s Urban Slice DIPA (8.0% ABV)

IMDB synopsis: “The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior.”

This week’s referenced movies: Body Heat; Cutthroat Island; Ultraviolet; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; The Great Muppet Caper; the Fifty Shades trilogy; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Hardcore; Angus; Silent Night (2012); Sleepaway Camp; An American Werewolf in Paris; The Room; Rocky III; Cool as Ice; Braveheart; Top Secret!; The Great Train Robbery (1903); The Snowman; Mac and Me

Ratings for Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Double Dare

“Garbage day” murder

More of Ricky’s rampage

Resident Evil: Apocalypse ode to Miss Piggy

Ford Pinto scene from Top Secret!

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“An American Werewolf in Paris” Podcast Movie Review

22 oktober 2019 | 67 min

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 transformations” into a vehicle of weak callbacks and forced wackiness.

Tom Everett Scott stars as Andy the Sensitive Douche, a sexually aggressive sack of human garbage who falls for a French werewolf. Set mainly in the surprisingly well-lit catacombs of Paris, AAWiP features the physics of a Bugs Bunny cartoon and the ethics of a stalker. When the film isn’t bungee-jumping off the Eiffel Tower, it’s setting a slapstick sequence to Smash Mouth.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss condom-flavored bubblegum, human heart smoothies and industrial Eurotrash.

NEW DARES

The Fanatic (Jaina Sinclair)

The Boy Next Door (Julio Olivera)

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 25, 1997

Domestic box office: $26.6 million (production budget: $25 million)

Critic scores: 7 on Rotten Tomatoes; 31 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s DIPA (8.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: An American Movie Watcher in Paris

Why did An American Movie Watcher in Paris dare Daniel and Corky to watch An American Werewolf in Paris? “While the original An American Werewolf in London is classic, this sequel is just not good. Unless you like the bungee jumping fad of the 90s jammed in because that’s what those crazy Gen-Xers we’re doing. Anyway, there are garbage CGI wolf transformations that don’t hold a silver bullet to the original film’s practical effects. Best of luck watching this terrible remake.”

IMDB synopsis: “An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.”

This week’s referenced movies: Mute Witness; Gotti; U-Turn; Out of Sight; Anaconda; Blood and Wine; Hustlers; An American Werewolf in London; The Postman; Ultraviolet; Cool as Ice; American Pie; Battlefield: Earth; the Robert Langdon movies; the Inspector Clouseau films; Tom Jones (1963); Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; The Godfather; Vampire Academy; A Christmas Story 2

Ratings for An American Werewolf in Paris: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Garbage CGI wolf transformation #1

Garbage CGI wolf transformation #2

“Pandemonium at Piccadilly” from An American Werewolf in London

Food foreplay from Tom Jones

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“Vampire Academy” Podcast Movie Review

15 oktober 2019 | 69 min

Vampire Academy

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 educates both vampires and vampire killers for no reason, Vampire Academy stars Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry as magically bonded besties. The movie offers 104 minutes of breathless exposition, just one elephant-sized plot dump after another. Of course, the atrocious dialogue, listless direction, lazy performances and Disney Channel production values don’t help. Even fans of the franchise refused to kick in for a sequel.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss She-Hulk crossovers, Blood Orange Julius, American Vampire Warrior flirt-fighting and Lady Draco Malfoy.

NEW DARES

In Search of Liberty (Mike Dub)

FeardotCom (Nick Palodichuk, host of the St. Paul Film Podcast)

Hook (Jaina Sinclair)

VAMPIRE ACADEMY FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: February 7, 2014

Domestic box office gross: $7.8 million (production budget: $30 million)

Critic scores: 16 on Rotten Tomatoes; 31 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Playification IPA (6.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Matt

Why did Matt dare Daniel and Corky to watch Vampire Academy? “Having seen lots of vampire films, I can tell you that with Transylmania and Ultraviolet you have not even begun to reach the bottom of the barrel. The amount of bad vampire films is endless. But there is one for which I have very high hopes, and that is Vampire Academy. To be clear, this is not anywhere near the worst film ever. However, Vampire Academy is just such a baffling mess. I am sure listeners would enjoy listening to you guys trying to make sense of the many, many subplots.”

IMDB synopsis: “Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi.”

This week’s referenced movies: God’s Not Dead; Renaissance Man; Ready Player One; Transylmania; Ultraviolet; Once Bitten; The House of Yes; Mean Girls; Just Like Heaven; The Spiderwick Chronicles; Ghosts of Girlfriends Past; Mr. Popper’s Penguins; Heathers; Batman Returns; Happy Cambers; Sex and Death 101; Bright; Let the Right One In; That Awkward Moment; Back to the Future; the Harry Potter, Maze Runner, Twilight and Hunger Games franchises; Angels & Demons; Inferno; Brainscan; Warcraft; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Miller’s Crossing; Sleepaway Camp; Fifty Shades of Grey; the Star Wars prequels; Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa; I Am Legend; Can’t Stop the Music; An American Werewolf in London; The Last Airbender; Never Been Kissed

Ratings for Vampire Academy: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

A class disturbance

At the vampire dance

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“Brainscan” Podcast Movie Review

8 oktober 2019 | 50 min

Brainscan (1994)

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 demon with CGI guts.

Brainscan offers a grab bag of intriguing ideas, but the pieces never fit together. Even without the clumsy execution, though, no film could surmount Furlong’s complete lack of talent and screen presence.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss distinctive foot tattoos, flirty jeans jackets, Primus dance scenes and Buddies Forever petitions.

NEW DARES

Krull (Heather Smith)

Big Money Hustlas (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T)

BRAINSCAN FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: April 22, 1994, on 1,221 screens

Domestic box office: $4.3 million

Critic scores: 21 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Tower Brewing’s Joe Seshy Session IPA (5.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Scott Allen

Why did Scott Allen dare Daniel and Corky to watch Brainscan? “This film stars Edward Furlong, just 3 years after Terminator 2 would make him famous. The film itself has a great concept about a fully immersible video game experience, very ahead of its time. Although it went mostly under the radar and was panned by many, the film is original and entertaining.”

IMDB synopsis: “A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Warrior and the Sorceress; Yojimbo; Big Money Rustlas; Dolemite; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Rolling Thunder; Best Seller; Lock Up; Out for Justice; Cutthroat Island; The Box; Se7en; 8MM; Sleepy Hollow; White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf; The Game; Fight Club; Rear Window; Strangers on a Train; Psycho; Vertigo; Exorcist II: The Heretic; Manhunter; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; Beetlejuice; The Mask; Drop Dead Fred; Cool as Ice; Summer of Sam; It’s a Wonderful Life; the A Nightmare on Elm Street films; Warcraft

Ratings for Brainscan: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

Enter the Trickster

Brainscan behind the scenes

“Milk was a bad choice.”

“Which one of you killed my dog?”

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“The Warrior and the Sorceress” Podcast Movie Review

24 september 2019 | 50 min

David Carradine in The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

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 the 1980s, The Warrior and the Sorceress stars David Carradine as the man with numerous names. Carradine seems barely conscious most of the time, while everyone else onscreen overacts as though their lives depended on it. Edited by two different teams in two different countries, the film is completely nonsensical, even if you already know the story it’s ripping off.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Hedonism-bots, Carradine thigh meat and wet tunic contests.

NEW DARES

Brainscan (Scott Allen)

Howling II: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch (Steve Miller)

THE WARRIOR AND THE SORCERESS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: September 7, 1984

Domestic box office: $2.9 million

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Scrog Grog (6.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Kevin Cooley

Why did Kevin dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Warrior and the Sorceress? “It’s a B-movie seemingly made to turn a quick buck, but a little way in, I realized that it was a poor attempt at a warrior/fantasy “remake” of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. If you’re going to blatantly rip off a classic, you open yourself up to higher scrutiny in my opinion. This kind of movie will often have quick shots of boobs to keep the audience’s attention. This movie dials that past 11 when they have a main character topless through the entire thing for no reason. To keep the titillation (pun intended) escalating, they give another woman four breasts. If this makes the grade, I dare you.”

IMDB synopsis: “The mighty warrior, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands of the planet Ura, where two arch enemies, Zeg and the evil degenerate Balcaz, fight incessantly for control of the village’s only well. Kain sees his opportunity and announces that his sword is for hire…but his eyes stay clearly on the beautiful captive sorceress Naja and his newly awakened purpose.”

This week’s referenced movies: Yojimbo; Vampire Academy; Skullduggery; The ABCs of Death; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; The Howling; A Fistful of Dollars; Last Man Standing; Ishtar; Pulp Fiction; the Star Wars movies; Conan the Barbarian movies; Hard Ticket to Hawaii; Mad Max: Fury Road; Top Secret!; Road House; Enemy Mine; Mac and Me; the Lord of the Rings movies; Cats (2019); eXistenZ; A Bug’s Life; Amazon Women on the Moon; Kill Bill: Vol. 1; Shane

Ratings for The Warrior and the Sorceress: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

First fight for the well

“I used to fuck guys like you in prison!”

Nigel from Top Secret!

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“Inferno” Podcast Movie Review

10 september 2019 | 51 min

Inferno Tom Hanks Felicity Jones

Inferno (2016; Ron Howard) — Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 46

“You have three explainers in one room together. Who’s the alpha explainer?”

Farraday pointer superfans Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell don their Dante deathmasks to review Ron Howard’s pointless puzzle movie Inferno.

This 2016 sequel finds Howard the hack in an artsy-fartsy-for-the-sake-of-artsy-fartsiness sort of mood. Meanwhile, Hanks returns as Massive Headwound Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon, who this time around suffers from amnesia. After watching Inferno, we should all be so lucky. Aptly named after hell, Inferno effectively killed the Robert Langdon film franchise. It certainly doesn’t help the only likable character in the movie is a plague.

Inferno is both frustratingly nonsensical and utterly empty at the same time. Minus the ginned-up Catholic controversy of its predecessors, the film instead revels in hokey nightmare visions, CGI drone chases, and nonstop Lang-splaining.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss bio-tubes, horse statues, disease bags and Cynthia Rothrock knockoffs.

NEW DARES

Vampire Academy (Matt)

Hellinger (Doug)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (Ryan L. Terry)

INFERNO FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 28, 2016, on 3,576 screens

Domestic box office: $34.3 million (production budget: $75 million)

Critic scores: 23 on Rotten Tomatoes; 42 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Bike Dog Brewing‘s The Wolf Within Hazy IPA (7.5% ABV– a collaboration with Lead Dog Brewing)

IMDB synopsis: “When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Da Vinci Code; Angels & Demons; The ABCs of Death; Skullduggery; Transylmania; Ultraviolet; Once Bitten; Hellraiser; The Beautician and the Beast; Wes Craven’s New Nightmare; Freddy vs. Jason; Warcraft; Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens; Boo! A Madea Halloween; Cool as Ice; Bio-Dome; Vertigo; 300; I Am Legend; Snakes On a Plane; Pulp Fiction; Men in Black; Clerks; Batman

Ratings for Inferno: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Langdon’s nightmares

Secrets of the Palazzo

Inferno alternate ending

Ron Howard: Bump or Dump?

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“Angels & Demons” Podcast Movie Review

27 augusti 2019 | 58 min

Tom Hanks Angels & Demons

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 Howard and Dan Brown. Essentially one long, red herring-strewn chase scene, Angels & Demons finds Langdon explaining, man-splaining, self-splaining, and even mutter-splaining.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Hanks taint, exposi-coptering, papal Gallagher shows, and Armin Mueller stalling tactics.

NEW DARES

1972 Yellow House (Joe Campbell)

Captive State (David Paul)

ANGELS & DEMONS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: May 15, 2009

Domestic box office: $133 million domestic; $486 million worldwide (production budget: $150 million)

Critic scores: 37 on Rotten Tomatoes; 48 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Claimstake Brewing‘s Krispy Stache (5.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: David Paul

Why did David Paul dare Daniel and Corky to watch Angels & Demons? “Guys, did you know everything is an interconnected web of secret nefarious organizations plotting to control our very reality? As a former info warrior, I can tell you this sort of conspiracy-laden view of the world can be fun to get into. But this film based on notorious information abuser Dan Brown’s “book” is most definitely not fun to get into. This movie manages to make two things I still unabashedly enjoy, conspiracy theories and church history, and make them endlessly dull. Despite how unwatchable it is I’ve watched it at least four times.”

IMDB synopsis: “Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Da Vinci Code; Inferno; Angels With Dirty Faces; Angels in the Outfield; Angel (1984); Slumber Party Massacre; Warcraft; Hellboy; Leave No Trace; Lord of the Rings franchise; California Typewriter; the Indiana Jones movies; Cool as Ice; The Goonies; John Wick

Ratings for Angels & Demons: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Tom Hanks at The Pantheon

Burned at the stake

Daniel’s 2009 review of Angels & Demons

Ron Howard: Bump or Dump?

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“Warcraft” Podcast Movie Review

13 augusti 2019 | 57 min

Warcraft film

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 less fake than actual humans. The Bud Light commercial-level production design and an unfathomably dull lead actor do no favors to the nonsensical script.

Daniel and Corky interrupt broken family storytime long enough to discuss tusk piercings, back antlers and mustache magicians.

WARCRAFT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: June 10, 2016

Domestic box office: $47 million domestic; $386 million overseas (production budget: $160 million)

Critic scores: 27 on Rotten Tomatoes; 32 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Surly Brewing‘s Furious (6.6% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Ben Rice, host of the Barley & Me podcast

Why did Ben Rice dare Daniel and Corky to watch Warcraft? “Of course Duncan Jones rocked Moon, a practical effects masterwork starring Sam Rockwell. But then someone decided to hire Jones to direct a CGI-filled blockbuster based on a video game? There’s never been a good video game movie. There’s no way to make WoW, one of the most expansive universes of all time, a remotely watchable film. AND you hire a director who clearly excels with practical effects and struggles with CGI? Surely this is a steaming pile of sweet Rockwell man-ass. Or is it? Spoiler alert: I fell asleep in the theater for half of this film’s runtime. It’s backbreakingly boring. Enjoy!”

IMDB synopsis: “As an Orc horde invades the planet Azeroth using a magic portal, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war.”

This week’s referenced movies: Moon; Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Marvel Cinematic Universe; DC Extended Universe; Lord of the Rings film franchise; The Fifth Element; Gotti; John Carter; the Harry Potter film franchise; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Assassins; Return of the Jedi; Leaving Las Vegas; Ultraviolet; Arthur; Midnight Express; Forrest Gump; Team America: World Police; King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword

Ratings for Warcraft: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

Durotan v. Gul’Dan

Lothar v. Blackhand

“Oh, Billy” scene from Midnight Express

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“Cool as Ice” Podcast Movie Review

30 juli 2019 | 73 min

Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice

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 fascinating and brutally unwatchable at the same time.

The Artist Formerly Known as Rob Van Winkle plays John “Johnny” Van Owen, a charmless, disgusting misogynist and talentless performer. It’s quite literally the part he was born to play. Stuck in a small town, Johnny pursues newsworthy “good girl” Cat after a meet-hate involving some light animal abuse. Like everyone else in the town, Cat is inexplicably mesmerized by this loathsome, smarmy, schlong-schlinging stalker, thief and pseudo-rapist.

Most definitely not a remake of The Wild One, Cool as Ice marked the first major American film for cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Just two years later, Kaminski would win the Oscar for Schindler’s List. Despite Kaminski’s participation, Cool as Ice revels in embarrassing camera tricks, The Grind-level production design and boing-boing comedy sound effects. Follow the lead of Naomi Campbell and exit this film after the opening credits.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss scholarship papers, forced perspective humor, Ice fu fight scenes and horse pasture dates.

COOL AS ICE FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 18, 1991

Domestic box office: $1.2 million (production budget: $6 million)

Critic scores: 7 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: New Glory Brewing‘s Double Vanilla Mindshaker Milkshake IPA (8.1% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather S. dare Daniel and Corky to watch Cool as Ice? “Because you need to drop that zero, and get with a hero. But this one might be too awful for any human consumption. The whole movie is a cringe-fest, it’s like trying to watch The Office‘s Michael Scott attempt to lead a diversity workshop. If you choose this movie, I cannot be legally held responsible if you roll your eyes so hard in your head that they get stuck. You have been warned.”

IMDB synopsis: “A rap-oriented remake of The Wild One (1953), with heavy emphasis on the fact that Vanilla Ice has assumed the Marlon Brando role.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Wild One; The Ridiculous 6; Schindler’s List; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; xXx; The Fast and the Furious franchise; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Grease; Down by Law; A Christmas Story 2; Seabiscuit; Enter the Dragon; Bad Boys; Fifty Shades of Grey movie franchise; Having a Wild Weekend; Crossroads; Elvis movies; Say Anything; Bio-Dome; The Island of Dr. Moreau

Ratings for Cool as Ice: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

“Drop that zero and get with the hero.”

John “Johnny” Van Owen motorcycle montage

“Ninja Rap” scene from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

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Dare Daniel Podcast: All Dares Episode 1

16 juli 2019 | 52 min

“The Beautician and the Beast” Podcast Movie Review

2 juli 2019 | 52 min

Fran Drescher and Timothy Dalton in The Beautician and the Beast

The Beautician and the Beast (1997; Ken Kwapis) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 42

“Talk to the hand!”

Long-suffering Slovitzian factory worker Daniel Barnes and “classy European” Corky McDonnell return to Sac City Brews to record their review of Ken Kwapis’ maliciously PG rom-com The Beautician and the Beast.

The film stars Fran Drescher, who rehashes her The Nanny shtick to play spunky beautician Joy Miller. Through a mistaken identity scenario too stupid to contemplate, Joy gets whisked to an Eastern European hellhole called Slovitzia.

There, Joy inexplicably falls for the country’s blood-stained fascist dictator, a grumpy Gus played by Timothy Dalton. Unfortunately, Drescher and Dalton fail to achieve even a Jim Belushi/Courtney Thorne-Smith level of onscreen chemistry.

Drescher does her best, and she’s very likable and charming, whatever her dramatic limitations. However, the script is complete garbage, the direction stinks, and Dalton is still a chin in search of a personality. The film has all the energy of a table read without any of the energy of a table read.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss Eugene V. Debs-utantes, Fen-Phen fajitas, dungeon etiquette and Not Udo Kier.

THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BEAST FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: February 7, 1997

Domestic box office: $11.5 million (production budget: $16 million)

Critic scores: 19 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Calicraft Brewing’s Oak Town Brown (6.7% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Courtney Rounds (with an assist from Ryan Terry)

Why did Courtney dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Beautician and the Beast? “Because it is amazing and I want someone to discuss it so I can either shake my head in agreement or my fist in anger. Also, SPOON MASSAGE.”

IMDB synopsis: “A New York City cosmetologist, mistakenly thought to be a science teacher, is offered a job to teach the children of an Eastern European dictator.”

This week’s referenced movies: Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird; The Beauty and the Beast; The King and I; Heartbeeps; Sleeping Beauty; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; The Towering Inferno; the Spider-Man franchise; Top Secret!; The Sound of Music; Shining Through; Transylmania; Revolution; Renaissance Man; The Dark Tower; King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword; West Side Story; Evita; Norma Rae; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; My Fair Lady; Greed; Shoah; Pretty Woman; Mac and Me; The Dark Knight Rises

Ratings for The Beautician and the Beast: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

Making sandwiches at midnight

The final scene

“Souvenirs, novelties, party tricks”

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“Mac and Me” Podcast Movie Review

18 juni 2019 | 55 min

Mac & Me alien

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 wheelchair-bound boy moving to a new city. During the move, Eric befriends an alien fugitive that gets separated from its family of genital-free, old-man sea-monkey Nosferatus.

A film that warms your heart with rage, Mac and Me offers a constant stream of soulless corporate synergy. Like a 19th-century mountebank, the film peddles Coca-Cola as a life-saving elixir. Meanwhile, McDonald’s gets portrayed as an ecstatic dance party, even in the presence of hate crimes.

Struggling to stave off an existential crisis, Daniel and Corky discuss jogging montages, alien prayer circles, Tomatometers, puberty meters, over-armed supermarket security guards and corporate-sponsored family photos.

MAC AND ME FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: August 12, 1988

Domestic box office: $6.4 million (production budget: $13 million)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Breakside Brewery‘s Kids These Haze (6.2% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Liam (Gallagher, possibly)

Why did Liam dare Daniel and Corky to watch Mac and Me? “Actor Paul Rudd has a running bit on Conan O’Brien where he plays a scene from Mac and Me instead of one from the film he’s there to promote. Being a lover of bad movies, the clip definitely spoke to me, but unfortunately, it is the one and only highlight of the film. Then again, it IS an amazing scene. Enjoy :)”

IMDB synopsis: “An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.”

This week’s referenced movies: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Mannequin 2: On the Move; Young Guns; Can’t Buy Me Love; the Star Wars movie franchise; Nosferatu; Pan’s Labyrinth; The Green Mile; Lord of the Rings movie franchise; In the Mouth of Madness; The Blues Brothers; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; They Live; Paper Moon; The Piano; Duel; The Shining; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Screwball; Ishtar; Ghostbusters; Exorcist II: The Heretic; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Men in Black; The Silence of the Lambs; Better Off Dead; Grease; Sleepaway Camp; JFK; Rawhead Rex; China Salesman; Amadeus

Ratings for Mac and Me: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Ronald McDonald hypes Mac and Me

The infamous wheelchair over the cliff scene

Full McDonald’s dance scene

The original ending where Eric gets shot vs. The theatrical cut

Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago

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“Ultraviolet” Podcast Movie Review

4 juni 2019 | 45 min

Milla Jovovich in Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (2006; Kurt Wimmer) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 40

“It’s an assault on your eyes, on your intelligence, on your ears.”

Sarcastic hæmophage Daniel Barnes and Vice-podcaster Corky McDonnell use their unique blend of gun-kata criticism to review Kurt Wimmer’s Ultraviolet.

The film stars Milla Jovovich as a super-vampire who fights special effects in front of a green screen. With a visual aesthetic that recalls a 1998 screensaver and a script penned by Google Translate, the film is either admirably unwatchable, contemptuously unwatchable or Vice-unwatchable. Whatever the case, it’s unwatchable.

Although Ultraviolet gushes backstory, the film never makes any sense. It’s an entirely fake-looking and fake-sounding turd-pile of gun-dance battles, katana fights, floating heads, holograms and clones. All that nonsense to serve a story that links medical science with fascism.

Elsewhere, the hosts discuss gravity levelers, LinkedIn profiles for assassins, disposable phones and Will-Fi the Science Guy.

ULTRAVIOLET FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: March 3, 2006

Domestic box office: $18.5 million (production budget: $30 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 18 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Lead Dog Brewing’s Take 2 Crushable Hazy IPA (5.8% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Marco Cabodi

Why did Marco dare Daniel and Corky to watch Ultraviolet? “Nonsensical Milla Jovovich action vehicle that alternates between incredibly ambitious and incomprehensibly stupid. It’s an amazing mix of everything being almost not as awful as it is. It’s admirably unwatchable.”

IMDB synopsis: “A beautiful hæmophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cutthroat Island; Birth; Equilibrium; Sphere; The Recruit; Law Abiding Citizen; Salt; Total Recall (2012); Point Break (2015); The Matrix franchise; Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion; 16 Blocks; Eight Below; Captain Marvel; A Clockwork Orange; Sin City; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; Spy Kids franchise; The Spirit; 300; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse; Fargo; I Am Legend; Ronin; Sleepaway Camp; Heat; the Blade franchise; Kill Bill: Vol. 1; Little Shop of Horrors (1986); Gotti; the Resident Evil franchise; The Messenger; Dazed and Confused

Ratings for Ultraviolet: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

A typically unwatchable fight scene

The unusually unwatchable motorcycle chase scene

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“God’s Not Dead” Podcast Movie Review

21 maj 2019 | 62 min

Kevin Sorbo in God's Not Dead

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 atheist Professor Radisson, a tenured strawman played by Kevin Sorbo. Nothing less than the existence of God hangs in the balance. Like most horror films, God’s Not Dead inspired several sequels, but Daniel and Corky stick with the original, a surprise box office hit in 2014.

The film wants to use science to prove the existence of God while also debunking all science and discrediting all scientists. It imagines a world where heartland Christians are a persecuted minority, and where liberal humanism metastasizes into cancer. However, the most dubious element of God’s Not Dead is a validation of the execrable Christian rock band The Newsboys.

Before cutting off all debate on the subject, your atheistic wine snob hosts discuss I Heart Evolution bumper stickers, Duck Dynasty ambushes, faulty rental cars and dementia daughters.

GOD’S NOT DEAD FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: March 21, 2014

Domestic box office: $60.7 million (production budget: $2 million)

Critic scores: 13 on Rotten Tomatoes; 16 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Dust Bowl Brewing Company‘s Hops of Wrath (6.6%)

This week’s Darer: Mike Dub

Why did Mike Dub dare Daniel and Corky to watch God’s Not Dead? “I don’t know if this movie will be the outright worst you’ve watched, at least not in terms of fundamental cinematographic ineptitude. It sounds like it would be tough to top, say, Theodore Rex in that sense. But I do think God’s Not Dead has a good chance of being up there with the most grating, and frustrating movies you’ve watched. I hope it’s as torturous as I think it will be.”

IMDB synopsis: “College philosophy professor Mr. Radisson’s curriculum is challenged by his new student, Josh, who believes God exists.”

This week’s referenced movies: Theodore Rex; the entire Fifty Shades movie trilogy; God’s Not Dead 2; God’s Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness; The Inconvenient Truth; Crash; Cutthroat Island

Ratings for God’s Not Dead: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer

The Newsboys have a very special message

Amy the Evil Liberal supercut

Josh converts the heathens

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“The Box” Podcast Movie Review

7 maj 2019 | 51 min

The Box (2009; Richard Kelly) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 38

“Great suspense there, asshole.”

On this week’s show, podcast hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell crawl up the wormhole of Richard Kelly’s 2009 mind-scrambler The Box.

Based on a Richard Matheson story previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Box stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a highly successful yet inexplicably destitute married couple in 1970s Virginia.

One day, a creepy burn victim played by Frank Langella presents the couple with a Philosophy 101 thought experiment: press a button on a box, and you get a million dollars. However, someone you don’t know will die.

Speaking of pressing buttons, Kelly’s inability to cobble together a single cohesive sequence indeed pressed our buttons. At one point, Langella’s box gets described as “a device of unknown purpose,” but that could easily describe this overstuffed and inert torrent of vaguely sciencey gobbledygook.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss CGI goo squares, What’s Happening nostalgia, creepy nosebleeds and the significance of zombie Santa Claus.

THE BOX FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: November 6, 2009

Domestic box office: $15 million (production budget: $30 million)

Critic scores: 44 on Rotten Tomatoes; 47 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Three Weavers Brewing Company‘s Knotty Double IPA (8.6% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Heather Williams

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Box? “Have you ever watched a movie and said wtf throughout the whole thing, while simultaneously thinking it can’t get weirder, but it does? Then this is the cinematic classic for you. Bonus: Santa appears!”

IMDB synopsis: “A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don’t know.”

This week’s referenced movies: Donnie Darko; Southland Tales; The English Patient; Darkman; Die Hard; The Shining; Gremlins; Sleepaway Camp; Stargate; Home Alone; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Terminator franchise

Ratings for The Box: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

“If you push the button…”

Here comes zombie Santa Claus

“Come with me if you want to live!” mashup

1986 The Twilight Zone episode “Button, Button”

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“Assassins” Podcast Movie Review

23 april 2019 | 66 min

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 charts. Meanwhile, Julianne Moore co-stars as Electra, an off-the-grid “info thief” known only by her “internet logo,” which also contains her e-mail address (it’s [email protected], because of computers).

After wistfully recalling meaningful chess games from their pasts, Daniel and Corky talk about cat boyfriends, Banderas memes, magic computers and monorail chases, while also discussing the best ways to casually eat a banana.

ASSASSINS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 6, 1995

Domestic box office: $30 million (production budget: $50 million)

Critic scores: 15 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Modern Times Brewing‘s Bedrock (6.2% ABV)

This week’s Darer: The President of the Assassins Guild of Assassinations

Why did The President of the Assassins Guild of Assassinations dare Daniel and Corky to watch Assassins? “While The Assassins Guild of Assassinations (AGA) is very supportive of movies highlighting the many contributions those skilled in the assassin arts have made to humanity over the years, this movie is a black eye on an otherwise flawless genre of movies. Antonio Banderas plays an “assassin” who can’t get the #1 ranking with the AGA unless he takes out Sly Stallone, who is in the process of retiring from assassinating people?! There are lots of stupid scenes of the two trying to get the drop on each other. And Banderas wearing baseball hats (when he clearly has no idea how they work). Also, Julianne Moore is in it.”

IMDB synopsis: “Professional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath’s targets.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Dark Knight Rises; The Goonies; Superman; Lethal Weapon; The Omen; Se7en; Judge Dredd; Jury Duty; The Monuments Men; Pulp Fiction; The Snowman; The Marathon Man; Die Hard; Rain Man; Coco; The Money Pit

Ratings for Assassins: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Cemetery shootout

Taxicab confessions

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“Bio-Dome” Podcast Movie Review

9 april 2019 | 52 min

Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin in Bio-Dome

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-Dome is a psychotically unfunny and thoroughly loathsome comedy from start to finish. That said, the film earns points for never taking its foot off the pedal, and for never attempting to make the manic idiot protagonists remotely likable or even human.

More excreted than released in January 1996, the film co-stars Kylie Minogue, William Atherton (playing against type as a bureaucratic prick shown up by rulebreaking slobs), Joey Lauren Adams and Rose McGowan, and features cameos from Roger Clinton, Patricia Hearst, and Tenacious D. That early 1990s casting gets abetted by an early 1990s MTV aesthetic, just right for the uniquely layered and nuanced comedy stylings of Pauly Shore.

Unable to cork it any longer, Daniel and Corky discuss anatomically correct action figures, grape smugglers, clown murders, The Great Chipmunk Fire of 1989, Taylor Negron ex machina, soy casserole and coconut bombs.

BIO-DOME FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: January 12, 1996

Domestic box office: $13.4 million (production budget of $15 million)

Critic scores: 4 on Rotten Tomatoes; 1 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Pizza Port Brewing‘s Bacon and Eggs Imperial Coffee Porter

This week’s Darer: The Weezel

Why did The Weezel dare Daniel and Corky to watch Bio-Dome? “This movie gave Al Gore meaning to his life, as is well known. Pauly Shore AND Stephen Baldwin save the earth with cigarette butts while earning the respect of some sexy doctors and their girlfriends.”

IMDB synopsis: “Moronic best friends get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, a science experiment, along with a group of environmental scientists for one year.”

This week’s referenced movies: Ready to Rumble; Real Genius; Ghostbusters; Die Hard; Blue Velvet; Apocalypse Now; Exorcist II: The Heretic

Ratings for Bio-Dome: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Doing the “Safety Dance”

Laughing gas and hypodermic darts

Blue Velvet gas mask scene

William Atherton playing a prick in Ghostbusters

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“Fever Pitch” Podcast Movie Review

26 mars 2019 | 48 min

Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon in Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch (2005; Bobby and Peter Farrelly) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 35

“IMDB was as uninterested in this movie as I was.”

Boston sports antagonists Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell compile their laziest, most mismatched baseball metaphors to review Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy that swings for the fences but instead drops the ball.

Jimmy Fallon stars as Ben, a man-child sports jerk whose all-encompassing obsession with the Boston Red Sox gets in the way of his relationship with career gal Lindsey, played by Drew Barrymore.

This episode was recorded just a few days after the Red Sox won the most boring World Series ever, which did nothing to distract the hosts from a slapdash, clumsy, poorly acted and pervasively false film filled with precocious movie kids, nonstop needle drops and a barrage of “washing your balls” jokes.

Daniel and Corky use their most irritating and offensive Boston accents to revive their Lowell Ganz vs. Babaloo Mandel debate, while also discussing lobster hands, Fallout 4 locations and The Great Gatsby-themed birthday parties.

FEVER PITCH FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. home video release date: April 8, 2005

Box office: $50 million worldwide (production budget of $30 million)

Critic scores: 65 on Rotten Tomatoes; 56 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Citra City (8.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Darcey Self

Why did Darcey dare Daniel and Corky to watch Fever Pitch? “Because Jimmy Fallon is an amazing actor. And baseball.”

IMDB synopsis: “Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with Ben and his passion for the Boston Red Sox.”

This week’s referenced movies: Fever Pitch (1997 version); Dumb and Dumber; Kingpin; The Philadelphia Story; Annie Hall; Harold and Maude; Exorcist II: The Heretic; Sleepaway Camp; No, No, Nanette; Old School; Caddyshack; Gotti

Ratings for Fever Pitch: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

“I saw her glance to the pants.”

Ben admits he’s a Red Sox fan

Pazuzu’s wings from Exorcist II: The Heretic

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“Leprechaun in the Hood” Podcast Movie Review

12 mars 2019 | 55 min

Warwick Davis in Leprechaun in the Hood

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, while Ice-T plays pimp turned hip-hop mogul Mack Daddy Onassis. An utterly incompetent series of cheap laughs, cheaper production values and cheapest Coolio cameos, Leprechaun in the Hood is more “pot o’ mold” than “pot o’ gold.”

Daniel and Corky stop playing with their magical flutes long enough to discuss zombie fly girls, inconsistent telekinesis, nightmares within nightmares (shoutout to Dana Dane), amulet hijinks and Not Delroy Lindo.

LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. home video release date: March 28, 2000

Critic scores: 25 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Altamont Beer Works’ Maui Waui Tropical (6.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Gav from the Films on Trial podcast

Why did Gav dare Daniel and Corky to watch Leprechaun in the Hood? “Hi guys. Gutted that I missed out on the chance to recommend a film for you to review during your excellent Scare Daniel series. Hopefully, you’re still in the mood to watch awful horror films? If so, then I’d love to hear your views on this cinematic turd. It’s equal parts unwatchable and unintentionally hilarious, and features one of the worst raps of all time (thanks to Warwick Davis).”

IMDB synopsis: “When three rappers want to get even with a pimp, they accidentally unleash a leprechaun who goes on a killing rampage in the ‘hood.”

This week’s referenced movies: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi; Willow; the Harry Potter film franchise; the Leprechaun franchise; Transylmania; Shaft; the Superman film franchise; Airplane!; A Christmas Story 2; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; MacGruber; Pimps Up, Ho’s Down; To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar; The Departed; 8 Mile

Ratings for Leprechaun in the Hood: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Ice-T vs. Leprechaun

“A friend with weed is a friend indeed.”

The Leprechaun Rap

Elevator scene from The Departed

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 33.5

5 mars 2019 | 24 min

“Ishtar” Podcast Movie Review

26 februari 2019 | 47 min

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Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar

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 Hollywood excess, Ishtar essentially ended the directorial career of Elaine May. However, the comedy has enjoyed a resurgence of critical approval in recent years. So is the film merely a misunderstood messenger from God, or is it really just a barren desert of blind camel jokes?

Daniel and Corky descend into Ishtar to find out for themselves, along the way discussing candy bar beers, hot fudge love, destabilizing maps, “classic ledge hijinks” and Jack “Relax! Boogie!” Weston.

ISHTAR FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: May 15, 1987

Box office: $14.4 million (production budget: $55 million)

Critic scores: 34 on Rotten Tomatoes; 52 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: New Glory Brewing‘s King Size Satisfies (12.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Tom Marvolo Riddle

Why did Lord Voldemort dare Daniel and Corky to watch Ishtar? “Since you’re obviously not opposed to a little history, you’ve got to consider Ishtar or Heaven’s Gate one of these times, although I’d give the edge to Ishtar just for the singing.”

IMDB synopsis: “Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.”

This week’s referenced movies: A New Leaf; The Heartbreak Kid; Mikey and Nicky; Heaven Can Wait; Tootsie; Reds; The Birdcage; Primary Colors; The Gate; Heaven’s Gate; Waterworld; Tough Guys Don’t Dance; Leonard Part 6; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; Can’t Stop the Music; The Karate Kid; Clifford; The Last Emperor; Revolution; Transylmania; The Birdman of Alcatraz

Ratings for Ishtar: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Rogers & Clarke perform “Little Darlin'”

Hawk vs. vultures

Siskel and Ebert’s Worst Films of 1987 episode

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 32.5

19 februari 2019 | 34 min

“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 is “a real piece of shit,” despite the presence of two great actors in the lead roles.

For the Question of the Week, the hosts forgo their usual negativity to spotlight their all-time favorite directors. They also read listener responses to the Best Fight Scenes QOTW from Mini-Episode 30.5.

Elsewhere, the hosts discuss stairwell fights, ethnically ambiguous bad guys and positive portrayals of sanitation workers, while also reading a few of your movie dares.

Question of the Week: Who are your top 5 directors (and what is their best film)?

Daniel’s picks: Charlie Chaplin (City Lights); Vincente Minnelli (The Bad and the Beautiful); Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not); John Ford (The Searchers); Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)

Corky’s picks: Billy Wilder (Sunset Blvd.); Wes Anderson (Rushmore); Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List); Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo); Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)

New Dares: Book of Love (Ben Rice); Men at Work (The Sanitation Workers of America); sequels (Mutt Williams)

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Death Becomes Her shovel showdown

Mr. Burns hires Señor Spielbergo

Daniel’s review of Ozu’s The End of Summer

Business Insider post about sequels

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“Heart Condition” Podcast Movie Review

12 februari 2019 | 44 min

Spanish-language poster for the film Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington 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 both audiences and critics due to its chaotic tone, insipid comedy beats and clunky action scenes set to slap-bass and scat-singing, the incompetence of Heart Condition is made worse by the extreme competence of the slumming lead actors.

Hoskins plays Moony, a maniac cop and Kurt Rambis superfan who unwittingly receives a heart transplant from his recently murdered rival, the bitch-slapping black lawyer Stone (Washington). After the transplant, Moony starts seeing and interacting with Stone’s ghost, who is eager to solve his own murder.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Daniel and Corky “Have a Heart” by discussing alcoholic cats, spectral fanny packs, hip-hop bowling alleys, baby hostages and bathroom flossers, while bemoaning a makeover montage that will never stop.

HEART CONDITION (1990) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: February 2, 1990

Box office: $4.1 million

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes (34 Audience Score)

This week’s Darer: Gav from the Films on Trial podcast

Why did Gav dare Daniel and Corky to watch Heart Condition? “I’ve been watching a lot of Denzel films recently, and I’ve just discovered this hidden gem. Our mate Denz plays a lawyer who dies. His heart is given to racist cop Bob Hoskins. But it’s not just his heart he receives, as he gets his GHOST as well. The two of them try to work out their racial tensions and attempt to discover who killed Denz. Hilarity ensues, supposedly. This film is painfully awful, but it does feature something that you just don’t get enough of these days in Hollywood: a comedy setpiece featuring a 10-inch dildo!”

IMDB synopsis: “A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.”

This week’s referenced movies: Groundhog’s Day; Glory; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Collision Course; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Happy Gilmore; Roxanne; The Long Good Friday; Mona Lisa

Ratings for Heart Condition: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Racist cop Jack Moony stumbles into action

Chub’s death in Happy Gilmore

Music video for Bonnie Raitt’s “Have a Heart”

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 31.5

5 februari 2019 | 20 min

“Gotti” Podcast Movie Review

29 januari 2019 | 39 min

John Travolta gives the thumbs-up in Gotti 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 without beginnings or ends (or middles for that matter), and straight-to-camera narration into an indecipherable, unwatchable, excruciating mess.

The flummoxed hosts discuss Travolta’s immobile face, create a gangster movie soundtrack station on Sirius called Mob Hitz, and reveal the secret identity of Pit Bull.

GOTTI FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: June 15, 2018

Box office: $4.3 million (production budget: $10 million)

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 24 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Crooked Lane Brewing‘s Oktoberfest Vienna Lager (5.2% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Linda Barnes (aka Daniel’s Mom)

Why did Daniel’s Mom dare Daniel and Corky to watch Gotti? “I have only one word for Dare Daniel: Gotti. Mic drop. Forty-four producers, what could possibly go wrong?”

IMDB synopsis: “The story of crime boss John Gotti and his son.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Incredibles 2; American Animals; China Salesman; The Godfather; The Silence of the Lambs; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Meatballs; Shaft; Fifty Shades of Grey films; Back to the Future; Goodfellas; The Monuments Men; The Snowman

Ratings for Gotti: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for Gotti

Gotti courtroom scene

The Paul Castellano hit

Indiewire article about the MoviePass/Rotten Tomatoes controversy

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 30.5

22 januari 2019 | 26 min

“China Salesman” Podcast Movie Review

15 januari 2019 | 63 min

Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal in China Salesman 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 fomenting a civil war between the North and the South.

The film offers the sort of clear artistic vision that can only be provided by 16 media companies, 9 producers, 7 co-producers, 10 general executive producers, 5 executive producers, 9 associate producers, 6 co-producers, 9 co-executive producers, 10 co-associate producers, 1 line producer and 4 distributors, yet the film still somehow ends up as an apologia for female circumcision.

Despite never appearing in the studio at the same time, Daniel and Corky discuss phantom fight scenes, sniper glamour shots, inexplicable ninja attacks, telltale cufflinks and the Pulitzer-worthy work of French reporter Andy Nelson.

CHINA SALESMAN FACTS AND FIGURES

Chinese theatrical release date: June 16, 2017

Chinese box office: $1.5 million (budget – $20 million)

Critic scores: 13 on Rotten Tomatoes; 14 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Maui Brewing Company’s Coconut Hiwa Porter (6% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Matthew Dougherty

Why did Matthew dare Daniel and Corky to watch China Salesman? “Scrolling through the “upcoming” tab in the Redbox app and this gem of a movie pops up…Mike Tyson and Steven Segal in an action movie set in North Africa go up against a young IT engineer? Sign me up.”

Unabridged IMDB synopsis: “Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the West. His boss ordered him to go to the North Africa and win the competition, and they can control the great mineral resources of Africa. He hired the best mercenary in Africa whose name is Lauder and a former general Kabbah to help him. Yan has discovered their conspiracy, he is the only one who can stop them.”

This week’s referenced movies: Alien: Covenant; The Mummy; Wonder Woman; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales; Exposed; Casablanca; His Girl Friday; The Shawshank Redemption; Patton; Aloha; Revolution; The Snowman; Magic Mike; Titanic

Ratings for China Salesman: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for China Salesman

Tyson vs. Seagal, sort of

The opera scene from The Shawshank Redemption

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 29.5

8 januari 2019 | 33 min

“Fifty Shades of Grey” movie trilogy – Dare Daniel Podcast review

1 januari 2019 | 94 min

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 session. The hosts drank so much craft beer over the course of the episode that by the end, their sex jeans didn’t fit anymore.

FIFTY SHADES FACTS AND FIGURES

Theatrical release dates:

Fifty Shades of Grey: February 13, 2015

Fifty Shades Darker: February 10, 2017

Fifty Shades Freed: February 9, 2018

This week’s Darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch these terrible, terrible movies? “Because what better way to spend an awkward afternoon with your friend than watching a badly acted, poor quality plot/storyline, Red Shoe Diaries knockoff? Make sure to drink lots of alcohol to wash away the bad taste. I’m so sorry.”

Critics scores:

Fifty Shades of Grey: 25 Rotten Tomatoes; 46 Metacritic

Fifty Shades Darker: 11 Rotten Tomatoes; 33 Metacritic

Fifty Shades Freed: 12 Rotten Tomatoes; 31 Metacritic

Box office performances:

Fifty Shades of Grey: $571 million worldwide gross ($40 million production budget)

Fifty Shades Darker: $377 million worldwide gross ($55 million production budget)

Fifty Shades Freed: $371 million worldwide gross ($55 million production budget)

This week’s beers: Revision Reno as F*** (8% ABV); Fieldwork Lilith (8% ABV); Alvarado Street (collaboration w/ Burgeon) Root Bound (8.1% ABV); New Glory Only the Clouds (8% ABV)

This week’s referenced movies: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; Blade Runner; Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Glengarry Glen Ross; After Dark, My Sweet; At Close Range; The Snowman; Don’t Look Now; Eyes Wide Shut; The Silence of the Lambs; Crocodile Dundee; Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!; The Godfather; Aloha; Hard Ticket to Hawaii; The Graduate; The Identical

Ratings for Fifty Shades of Grey: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Ratings for Fifty Shades Darker: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Ratings for Fifty Shades Freed: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Theatrical trailer for Fifty Shades Darker

Theatrical trailer for Fifty Shades Freed

Christian and Anastasia’s helicopter ride

Christian and Anastasia’s sex contract negotiation

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“A Christmas Story 2” Podcast Movie Review

24 december 2018 | 48 min

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 naughty-lister in your life.

Daniel and Corky stop their jingle-fighting long enough to discuss elf labor unions, dental torture, Little Timmy Ragamuffin, hair-sniffing and pneumatic tube-tonguing.

A CHRISTMAS STORY 2 FACTS AND FIGURES

VOD release date: October 30, 2012

Critic scores: n/a (audience score of 38 on Rotten Tomatoes)

This week’s craft beer: Alaskan Brewing‘s Smoked Porter 2018 (6.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Matthew Barnes

Why did Matthew dare Daniel and Corky to watch A Christmas Story 2? “Dare-y Daniel Corkymas! I am recommending the maligned 2012 sequel of the beloved original where Daniel Stern takes over the role of The Old Man. I have not seen the sequel, but I saw the trailer and it looks like a Dare Daniel feast!”

IMDB synopsis: “Five years later, Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.”

This week’s referenced movies: A Christmas Story; My Summer Story; Jingle All the Way; The Perfect Holiday; The Preacher’s Wife (1996); Gilda; Once Upon a Time in America; Home Alone; The Marathon Man; Little Shop of Horrors; Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Ishtar; Serial Mom; The Stepfather; Gotti; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas

Ratings for A Christmas Story 2: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Flick gets his tongue stuck in a tube

“Streets of Philadelphia”

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 28.5

18 december 2018 | 33 min

“Cutthroat Island” Podcast Movie Review

11 december 2018 | 62 min

Geena Davis and Matthew Modine in Cutthroat Island 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 not exist, the film stars Geena Davis as lady pirate/father-scalper Morgan Adams, while personality void Matthew Modine plays a con man posing as himself.

Daniel and Corky stop playing with their mini-muskets long enough to discuss Oliver Reed impersonators, King Charles the comedy monkey, surgery as sexual flirtation and Paul Verhoeven classics gained and lost.

CUTTHROAT ISLAND FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 22, 1995

Critic scores: 38 on Rotten Tomatoes; 37 on Metacritic

Box office performance: $10 million gross; $120 million budget

This week’s craft beer: Bike Dog Brewing‘s Downhill Double IPA (8.6% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Marco Cabodi

Why did Marco dare Daniel and Corky to watch Cutthroat Island? “For more than a decade it was the biggest bomb of all time. It has a notorious reputation and was hated by critics (‘cept Ebert liked it). Frank Langella and the soundtrack are rad.”

IMDB synopsis: “A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure.”

This week’s referenced movies: Showgirls; Starship Troopers; Titanic; the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise; xXx; Airplane!; Gladiator; Tommy; Exposed; Fifty Shades of Grey; The Silence of the Lambs; I’m Gonna Git You Sucka; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Ratings for Cutthroat Island: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Matthew Modine’s powdered wig lechery

Rear projection parody in Airplane!

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 27.5

4 december 2018 | 35 min

“Collision Course” Podcast Movie Review

27 november 2018 | 51 min

Noriyuki "Pat" Morita and Jay Leno in Collision Course

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 turbocharger (aka the worst MacGuffin ever).

Daniel and Corky eventually stop raving about the new Jared Starburst long enough to discuss sax-synth clubs, decapitated drivers, split-screen freeze frames and Jay Leno body doubles.

COLLISION COURSE FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: n/a (debuted on HBO in 1992)

Critic scores: n/a (33% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes)

Box office performance: n/a

This week’s craft beer: Modern Times Beer’s Black House (5.8% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Darcey Self

Why did Darcey dare Daniel and Corky to watch Collision Course? “Sooo, I was flipping through Hulu and this little gem popped up: Collision Course starring the hilarious comedy duo of Jay Leno and Pat Morita. I mean how can you resist.”

IMDB synopsis: “A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.”

This week’s referenced movies: Theodore Rex; The Karate Kid; The Lost Boys; Police Academy movies; Grudge Match; Beverly Hills Cop; Revolution; Ghostbusters; Godzilla movies; 8 Mile; Mac and Me; Renaissance Man; Trading Places; Can’t Stop the Music; Kung Pow: Enter the Fist; The Cloverfield Paradox; Running Scared; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Ratings for Collision Course: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Morita jump kicks a speeding car

Pat Morita loses Best Supporting Actor to Haing S. Ngor

The Lost Boys Sax Man on the beach

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 26.5

20 november 2018 | 35 min

Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love

“The orchestra didn’t have a string section, it had a heartstring section.”

Buddy cops Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell play by their own rules in this super-sized mini-episode, avenging each other’s deaths even after the angry Sargeant orders them off the cases.

The mismatched podcast hosts first look ahead to next week’s review of the racist 1989 action comedy Collision Course, starring the mismatched Pat Morita and Jay Leno as mismatched cops trying to retrieve a stolen turbocharger.

While hill-person Corky struggles with the internet, the question of the week is left to Daniel, who has an ax to grind against a certain British battleax.

Elsewhere, the hosts discuss musical schmaltz, one-arm push-ups, Warwick Davis’ mic skills and the dangers of candy corn addiction, before finally agreeing that John Leguizamo is John Leguiza-less.

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Dare Daniel Question of the Week: What is the worst performance to win an acting Oscar?

Daniel’s pick: Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love

Corky’s pick: Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite

New Dares: Leprechaun in the Hood (Gav/Films on Trial); The Pest (Matthew Dougherty); Ready Player One (David Paul); more theme months like Scare Daniel October (Colin Frissell); Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Luke)

Jack Palance one-armed pushups

Paltrow vs. Dench in Shakespeare in Love

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“The Monuments Men” Podcast Movie Review

13 november 2018 | 52 min

Bill Murray and Bob Balaban in The Monuments Men 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), turning off even hardcore Clooney fanboy Corky.

Daniel and Corky navigate through the complete chaos of the story to discuss Michelangelo’s MacGuffin and Child, celebrate a very Balaban Christmas, and dream about sharing a bagel with old Sid Melman.

THE MONUMENTS MEN FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: February 7, 2014

Critic scores: 31 on Rotten Tomatoes; 52 on Metacritic

Box office performance: $78 million domestic gross (production budget: $70 million)

This week’s craft beer: Almanac Beer Co.’s Forbidden Lager (5.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Seth Katz

Why did Seth dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Monuments Men? “It’s rare for a cast this good to be wasted so badly. Clooney’s track record as a director was, if not highly esteemed, was at least solid until this turd.”

IMDB synopsis: “An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.”

This week’s referenced movies: Suburbicon; Aloha; Ocean’s 11; Weird Science; Return of the Jedi; the Bourne films; Shining Through; Fifty Shades of Grey; Little Shop of Horrors; Inglourious Basterds; the Indiana Jones films; Saving Private Ryan; The Train

Ratings for The Monuments Men: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for The Monuments Men

“John Wayne”

Shooting blanks

Bill Paxton transforms in Weird Science

The True Story of the Monuments Men

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 25.5

6 november 2018 | 34 min

“Exorcist II: The Heretic” Podcast Movie Review

30 oktober 2018 | 49 min

Linda Blair in Exorcist II: The Heretic Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977; John Boorman) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 25

“It was horrible…utterly horrible…and fascinating.”

For the final episode in their Scare Daniel series, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell synchronize their tones to review John Boorman’s laughably unscary 1977 horror sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic. The film stars Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher and Richard Burton’s whiskey sweats.

A movie simultaneously obsessed with and contemptuous of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic, Exorcist II: The Heretic is crazy without ever becoming crazy fun.

Hypnotized by a series of flashing lights, the hosts discuss sweaty Dick, Father Merrin baseball cards, locust costumes and therapeutic tapdancing.

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: June 17, 1977

Critic scores: 19 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Bike Dog Brewing’s Soft Pedal (7.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Dan Scott

Why did Dan dare Daniel and Corky to watch Exorcist II: The Heretic? “This shameless attempt to cash-in on The Exorcist must have been made due to a series of deals with the devil. Not only does Linda Blair return as Regan, but it includes an all-star cast of Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty and DANA FUCKING PLATO. Happy Halloween!”

IMDB synopsis: “A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl’s exorcist.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Exorcist; King Kong; Son of Kong; Point Blank; Deliverance; Excalibur; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; The Snowman; Fifty Shades of Grey; Flash Gordon; Ghostbusters; Tropic Thunder; Sleepaway Camp; Exposed; Lost Continent; The Corsican Brothers; MacGruber

Ratings for Exorcist II: The Heretic: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer

Regan vs. Evil Regan

Possessed by Pazuzu

“Exorcist II” sketch, Saturday Night Live (1975)

Van explosion scene from MacGruber

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Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 24.5

25 oktober 2018 | 34 min

“Sleepaway Camp” Podcast Movie Review

23 oktober 2018 | 54 min

Desiree Gould as Aunt Martha in Sleepaway Camp Sleepaway Camp (1983; Robert Hiltzik) – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 24

“In fond memory of mom, a doer.”

Corky McDonnell, a doer, and Daniel Barnes, a don’t-er, put on their shortest shorts and head to Camp Arawak to review Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 cult classic Sleepaway Camp.

An atypical slasher movie that blurs the lines between high and low art, good and bad acting, male and female, proficiency and ineptitude, sophistication and primitivism, and laughing at and laughing with, Sleepaway Camp was ignored upon release but obtained a fervent following in the following decades.

While Daniel compares the Hiltzik aesthetic to Lynch, Kubrick and Fuller, Corky merely namechecks Kurosawa and Tennessee Williams. Elsewhere, the hosts discuss man-eating bees, toxic masculinity, hormonal teens, water balloon snipers and crazy Aunt Martha.

SLEEPAWAY CAMP FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: May 1984

Domestic box office gross: Less than $100,000

Critics scores: 80 on Rotten Tomatoes; 58 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Fort Rock Brewing’s Intergalactic Hop Goblin (7% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Heather Smith

Why did Heather Smith dare Daniel and Corky to watch Sleepaway Camp? “It’s campy, it’s fun, it’s kind of fucked up.”

IMDB synopsis: “Angela Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions gets their comeuppance.”

This week’s referenced movies: Nell; The Gods Must Be Crazy; Sleepaway Camp II/III/IV: Unhappy Campers/Teenage Wasteland; Return to Sleepaway Camp; Friday the 13th; A Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Glass Menagerie; Firstborn; Rawhead Rex; Jaws; Can’t Stop the Music; Wet Hot American Summer; Road House; Carrie; American Sniper; Saving Private Ryan; From Here to Eternity; Psycho; Fargo

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer

The cook gets cooked

The final scene

At the Waterfront After the Social

Exploring Sleepaway Camp

Spotlightz Acting Camp for Serious Kids! SNL sketch

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Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 23.5

18 oktober 2018 | 25 min

“Transylmania” Podcast Movie Review

16 oktober 2018 | 53 min

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, and a cast of 34-year-old college kids.

The unofficial third film in the Dorm Daze franchise, Transylmania was the lowest-grossing film ever released on over 1,000 movie screens. Despite the 94-minute running time, it feels like it takes an entire semester abroad to complete.

Your hosts hold in their bodily fluids in long enough to discuss farting horses and werewolf songs, while also marveling at a world where head-reattachment surgery becomes an outpatient procedure.

TRANSYLMANIA FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 4, 2009

Worldwide box office gross: $397,641

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 8 on Metacritic (User score of 87 on Metacritic)

This week’s craft beer: Fieldwork Brewing’s Disco Stu Likes Disco Mosaic DIPA (9.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Dan Scott

Why did Dan dare Daniel and Corky to watch Transylmania? He alerted us to THIS BLOG POST from Business Insider listing the films with the greatest discrepancies between Critics scores and Users scores on Metacritic. Transylmania was #1 on the list.

IMDB synopsis: “Spoof horror in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realize that if the partying doesn’t kill them, the vampires just might!”

This week’s referenced movies: Dorm Daze; Dorm Daze 2; Nell; The End of Summer; The People Under the Stairs; C.H.U.D.; I Am Legend; Ready to Rumble; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Crash; Dunkirk

Ratings for Transylmania: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Classic Cliff and Rusty stabbing hijinks

Rusty wakes up with Draguta

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Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 22.5

11 oktober 2018 | 23 min

Once Bitten Jim Carrey Lauren Hutton

Continuing their month-long Scare Daniel series, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell kick off this fun-sized mini-episode with a preview of the horror-comedy Transylmania, the film so unfunny that even National Lampoon wouldn’t put their name on it.

Boasting a historic discrepancy between critical reviews and audience reviews, Transylmania is emblematic of our country’s increasing divide between ivory-tower eggheads and the unwashed hoi polloi. This schism should only widen when the episode comes out on Tuesday. The hosts also revisit their previous review, trying and failing to find the paradox (or is it pair-of-dicks?) in The Cloverfield Paradox.

Since Transylmania failed to tickle their funny bones, Daniel and Corky pick their all-time favorite horror-comedies, which leads a discussion about misogynist investment bankers and side-boob.

Elsewhere, Corky compares Evil Dead to Fifty Shades of Grey, Daniel dances around the word “wormhole,” and the hosts read a few of your movie dares.

Scare Daniel Question of the Week: What is your favorite horror-comedy?

Corky’s pick: Once Bitten

Daniel’s pick: American Psycho

New Dares:

Freddy Got Fingered (Adam Varona); Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Mutt Williams)

Once Bitten dance-off

Original theatrical trailer for Transylmania

Abby Normal’s brain from Young Frankenstein

Mutt and the monkeys

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“The Cloverfield Paradox” Podcast Movie Review

9 oktober 2018 | 47 min

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 to discuss grieving astronauts, stable beams, the Huntsville skyline, the ethics of playing personal videos on work computers and the wisdom of trusting strangers who appear inside of your walls.

THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX FACTS AND FIGURES

Netflix streaming release date: February 4, 2018

Critics scores: 17 on Rotten Tomatoes; 37 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: New Glory Craft Brewery’s Greenergy Double-Dry Hopped DIPA (8.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Cody Scott

Why did Cody dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Cloverfield Paradox? “I watched Winchester, Three Billboards, and this in one weekend and this somehow managed to be the worst out of three movies that got progressively more awful.”

IMDB synopsis: “Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cloverfield; 10 Cloverfield Lane; Winchester; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Bright; Frankenstein (1931); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; Son of Frankenstein; Frankenstein (1994); Ten Little Indians; Collateral Beauty; Red Dawn; Back to the Future; Aliens; Gravity; Skyline; the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy; Do the Right Thing; Rawhead Rex; The Snowman; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Ghostbusters; Event Horizon; Star Trek (2009)

Ratings for The Cloverfield Paradox: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Dare

RELATED CLIPS

The Cloverfield Paradox trailer

The final two minutes of The Cloverfield Paradox

How all three Cloverfield movies are connected

Spock’s death from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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Film Podcast – Scare Daniel Mini-Episode 21.5

4 oktober 2018 | 27 min

“Rawhead Rex” Podcast Movie Review

2 oktober 2018 | 44 min

The monster from Rawhead Rex 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 non-comedy still offers more laughs than Clifford, Ready to Rumble and Heartbeeps combined.

In between bites of raw vegetables dressed with raw meat, Daniel and Corky discuss Muscle Power shirts, phallic statues and crazy-eyed priests, while wondering where you buy boxer briefs made of pure energy.

RAWHEAD REX FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: April 17, 1987

Critics scores: 33 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing’s Mystic Topaz NE-style IPA (7.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Matthew Dougherty

Why did Matthew dare Daniel and Corky to watch Rawhead Rex? “Just terrible B horror movie. Bad effects, terrible plot, monster mask is incredibly fake.”

IMDB synopsis: “Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex’s cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.”

This week’s referenced movies: Underworld (1985); Underworld (2003); Hellraiser; Clifford; Ready to Rumble; Heartbeeps; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; The Exorcist; King Kong; The Amazing Spider-Man 2; Don’t Look Now; Back to the Future; Dracula; Pulp Fiction; X-Men

Ratings for Rawhead Rex: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Rawhead’s kill count

Rawhead attacks!

“He IS GOD!”

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 20.5

27 september 2018 | 20 min

“Exposed” Movie Review

25 september 2018 | 45 min

Keanu Reeves in Exposed Exposed (2016; Declan Dale aka Gee Malik Linton) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 20

“Nobody likes you!”

After unsuccessfully suing to have their names removed from the episode, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell enter a fugue state to review the utterly indecipherable Keanu Reeves thriller Exposed.

A catastrophe on every imaginable level, Exposed was originally titled Daughter of God, before getting hacked to pieces by Lionsgate and dumped onto North American VOD.

As ambiguity crosses over into incoherence, Daniel and Corky wonder what’s wrong with Keanu’s face, while also discussing albino aliens, birthday cupcakes and unearned plot twists.

EXPOSED FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. VOD/DVD release date: March 29, 2016

Critics scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Bro-Kini Hazy IPA, a collaboration between Latitude 33, Pizza Port, Burgeon Beer and Culver Beer (6.6% ABV)

This week’s Darer: David Paul

Why did DP dare Daniel and Corky to watch Exposed? “I watched ten minutes of this Keanu Reeves supernatural detective movie, mostly to figure out if Keanu is wearing a prosthetic face. I couldn’t take the stench of this film long enough to figure it out. Clearly a job for Team Dare Daniel.”

IMDB synopsis: “A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner’s death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Matrix; Boogie Nights; Lord of the Rings trilogy; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Pan’s Labyrinth; the Star Wars prequels; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Shining Through; the Fifty Shades trilogy; Collateral Beauty

Ratings for Exposed: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

The Floating Man scene from Exposed

“Joey wasn’t no choirboy.”

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 19.5

20 september 2018 | 23 min

“Ready to Rumble” Podcast Movie Review

18 september 2018 | 38 min

Steve Austin and Oliver Platt from Ready to Rumble 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), although excrement could have easily received third billing over Platt. After establishing the film’s barrel-scraping hierarchy of humor (poop; butts; farts; abuse of women; sodomy), Daniel and Corky exchange WWKD bracelets and discuss brain freeze hallucinations, Montreal Screwjobs, Oliver Platt’s lyrical flow, the carnal appeal of Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts and crotch kick supercuts.

READY TO RUMBLE FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. release date: April 7, 2000

Box office performance: Production budget – $24 million; worldwide gross – $12.4 million

Critics scores: 23 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on MetaCritic

This week’s craft beer: New Glory Craft Brewery’s Double Dry-Hopped Greenergy DIPA (8.0% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Jorge H.

Why did Jorge dare Daniel and Corky to watch Ready to Rumble? “To make you watch this.”

This week’s referenced movies: Hardball; Norbit; Without a Paddle; Walk of Shame; The Identical; Rules of Engagement; Return to Me; Clifford; Wayne’s World; the Bill and Ted movies; the Fifty Shades trilogy; Grudge Match; Clue; The Warriors; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Ratings for Ready to Rumble: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

“Best of Jimmy King”

Brain freeze hallucination

David Arquette wins the WCW World Heavyweight title

WWE – the legendary “Montreal Screwjob”

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 18.5

13 september 2018 | 23 min

“Clifford” Podcast Movie Review

11 september 2018 | 47 min

Martin Short in Clifford (1994) 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 their producer Johnny Flores for daring them to watch the 1994 monstrosity Clifford.

This long-shelved shitpile stars Martin Short as the titular ten-year-old problem child, while Charles Grodin ignites a raging forest fire of a “slow burn” as the boy’s smarmy uncle.

Recorded live over brunch and beers at Sac City Brews, the hosts obsess over Dinosaur World, wonder why a roller coaster engineer would create a setting that breaks the ride and consider replacing producer Johnny Flores with Jerry Bruckheimer, before finally blaming the entire episode on a plastic brontosaurus named Stephan.

CLIFFORD FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. release date: April 1, 1994

Domestic box office gross: $7.4 million

Critics scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Almanac Beer’s Unfiltered Opinion (6.1% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Johnny Flores

Why did Johnny dare Daniel and Corky to watch Clifford? “Because of Midnight Run, I thought if Charles Grodin is in it, and he’s playing the same snarky, somewhat angry guy, it’s going to be good. And it was not.”

This week’s referenced movies: Midnight Run; Problem Child; 18 Again!; Who’s Harry Crumb?; Major League II; Suburbicon; Beethoven; Step Brothers; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Patch Adams; Theodore Rex; Inherent Vice; Pure Luck; Three Fugitives; The Snowman; Jurassic Park; Ishtar; The Incredible Shrinking Woman; The Heartbreak Kid; Cloak and Dagger; Short Time; Rushmore; The Godfather, Part II; Freaks; Don’t Look Now; Aloha; I’m Gonna Git You Sucka; the Lord of the Rings trilogy

Ratings for Clifford: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Chia Hair sketch from Saturday Night Live

Clifford sings “San Francisco”

Bacon Toast Scrambler-loving Clifford fan

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka stunt double scene

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 17.5

6 september 2018 | 24 min

“Suburbicon” Podcast Movie Review

4 september 2018 | 44 min

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’t get past the film’s “little red flags,” but Corky admires the style and scope of Suburbicon, although both hosts are amazed at Clooney’s inability to build any kind of suspense.

Elsewhere, the hosts discuss poison PB&Js, bad guy bus drivers and the inner turmoil of Matt Damon.

SUBURBICON FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 17, 2017

Box office: budget – $25 million; domestic gross – $5.775 million

Critics scores: 29 on Rotten Tomatoes; 42 on MetaCritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing’s Glitter Moon (8.5% ABV)

This week’s Darers: Daniel and Corky

Why did Daniel and Corky dare themselves to watch Suburbicon? Corky: “This is the point of this podcast–it’s fairly recent, it tanked like a motherfucker, but everybody in it is somebody that I’m drawn to.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Foreigner; Pleasantville; Edward Scissorhands; Goodfellas; Fifty Shades trilogy; Fargo; Blood Simple; The Man Who Wasn’t There; Miller’s Crossing; Intolerable Cruelty; Fight Club; Burn After Reading; Little Shop of Horrors; Get Out

Ratings for Suburbicon: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

“This claim has a bunch of little red flags.”

1957 documentary Crisis in Levittown, about the incident involving the real-life Myers family

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 16.5

30 augusti 2018 | 21 min

“Heartbeeps” Podcast Movie Review

28 augusti 2018 | 45 min

Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 15.5

23 augusti 2018 | 19 min

“Revolution” Podcast Movie Review

21 augusti 2018 | 48 min

Revolution (1985; Hugh Hudson) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 15

“This is the medical tent of the Revolutionary War: This movie’s chopped to pieces, it’s ugly, it will make you scream, you’ll want to look away several times and you might catch sepsis.”

Redcoat haters and rope factory co-workers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell get forcibly conscripted to review Hugh Hudson’s 1985 box office bomb Revolution, starring Al Pacino as an 18th-century Scottish-American hunter-trapper who just wants to sell his “fuhs up da rivah,” and co-starring Nastassja Kinski as Daisy the Manic Pixie Dream Coquette.

Resisting the urge to dump the film into Boston Harbor, Daniel gives props to Pacino’s Rambo hair, Corky professes his love for powdered-wig lechery and both hosts wish that the film was a Blaxploitation movie starring Pam Grier and Bernie Casey.

REVOLUTION FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 25, 1985

Domestic box office: $358,000 (production budget: $28 million)

Critic scores: 10 on Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB synopsis: “A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.”

This week’s craft beer: New Glory Brewing’s DDH Galactic Worms IPA (7.2% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Corky McDonnell

Why did Corky dare himself to watch this movie? “This is a movie I’ve been wanting to watch for 30 years. I can remember seeing Gene Shalit on The Today Show slamming this movie. I remember seeing this get panned, and I knew that meant something.”

This week’s referenced movies: Chariots of Fire; Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan; Sweet Liberty; Scarface; Dog Day Afternoon; Can’t Stop the Music; Predator; Collateral Beauty; Coffy; Shining Through; James and the Giant Peach; Rob Roy; Eyes Wide Shut; Billy Budd; Saving Private Ryan; The Basketball Diaries; Aloha; Thelma & Louise; the Rambo movies; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; American Sniper; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; The Godfather; Goodfellas; Smokin’ Aces

Ratings for Revolution: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

The big battle scene

Donald Sutherland and the little drummer boy

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 14.5

16 augusti 2018 | 20 min

“Renaissance Man” Podcast Movie Review

14 augusti 2018 | 50 min

Renaissance Man (1994; Penny Marshall) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 14

“I’ve never taught before…and you’ve never thought before!”

Despite “struggling in the brain department,” Double D’s Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell scale Chekhov’s Victory Tower to review Penny Marshall’s career-killing 1994 military comedy Renaissance Man, starring the beloved comedy duo of Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines.

In a desperate attempt to manufacture any kind of stakes, the hosts discuss Burger King dates and patriotic Hamlet tests. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky wonder where the film’s $40 million budget went, but they ultimately blame Rob Reiner for the entire thing.

RENAISSANCE MAN FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: June 3, 1994

Domestic box office: $24.3 million (production budget: ~$40 million)

Critics scores: 12 on Rotten Tomatoes; 44 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Ale Industries’ Enigma Gold Extra Brut IPA (7.35% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Mike Dub

Why did Mike Dub dare Daniel and Corky to watch this movie? “This is the movie that made Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines the most beloved comedy duo of the 1990s…that happened, right? Bonus (spoiler alert): teaching Shakespeare to young, poor, predominantly minority people by rapping!”

IMDB synopsis: “A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.”

This week’s referenced movies: Big; A League of Their Own; Awakenings; Speed; The Flintstones; Maverick; Beverly Hills Cop III; North; The Player; Collateral Beauty; The Warriors; Can’t Stop the Music; Juice; A Bronx Tale; The Silence of the Lambs; Theodore Rex; Cape Fear; Dead Poets Society; Stand and Deliver; The Shawshank Redemption; Home Alone; Sister Act; Dangerous Minds; Bright

Ratings for Renaissance Man: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 13.5

9 augusti 2018 | 16 min

“Collateral Beauty” Podcast Movie Review

7 augusti 2018 | 45 min

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, Heaven experts and CSI: Cleveland, all while scheming to digitally remove themselves from the entire episode.

COLLATERAL BEAUTY FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 16, 2016

Domestic box office: $31 million (production budget: $36 million)

Critics scores: 14 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Blonde NV (5.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Jesse Davis

Why did Jesse dare Daniel and Corky to watch Collateral Beauty? “Because I want the two of you to suffer for my entertainment.”

IMDB synopsis: “Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.”

This week’s referenced movies: Bright; Robocop; Manhattan; The Silence of the Lambs; Quicksilver; Bowfinger; The Snowman; Aloha; The Dark Tower; Back to the Future; Lord of the Rings; Seven Pounds; The Pursuit of Happyness; After Earth; Wild Wild West; Men in Black

Ratings for Collateral Beauty: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 12.5

2 augusti 2018 | 17 min

“Can’t Stop the Music” Podcast Movie Review

31 juli 2018 | 50 min

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 Baskin-Robbins flavor Can’t Stop the Nuts.

Discovering to their horror that the music will never stop, even beyond the grave, Daniel and Corky discuss the Guttenberg bulge body double, lascivious Leatherkids and the dilated pupils of Jack “Relax! Boogie!” Weston.

CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. release date: June 20, 1980

This week’s beer: New Glory Brewing’s Astro Haze (6.2% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Dan Scott

Why Dare Daniel and Corky to watch Can’t Stop the Music? “Because you can’t stop the music. Nobody can stop the music. You will want to stop the music so many times. But you Can’t. Stop. The Music.”

IMDB synopsis: “A pseudo autobiography of disco’s The Village People.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Shining; The Bad News Bears; Cruising; Rocky; Wildcats; Fletch; Superman; Chuck & Buck; Apocalypse Now; Coming Home; Miller’s Crossing; It Happened One Night; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Grease; Theodore Rex

Ratings: Daniel – Reverse Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 11.5

26 juli 2018 | 23 min

“The Dark Tower” Podcast Movie Review

24 juli 2018 | 48 min

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” apron, the hosts discuss the inherent hilarity of people wearing people clothes and inadvertently solve the JFK assassination.

THE DARK TOWER FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: August 4, 2017

Domestic box office: $50 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 16 on Rotten Tomatoes; 34 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “The last Gunslinger: Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, and determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower that holds the universe together. With the fate of the world at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle, as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.”

This week’s craft beer: Track 7 Brewing’s Idaho 7 IPA (6.2% ABV)

This week’s referenced movies: Farewell My Queen; It; Theodore Rex; Bright; The Lawnmower Man; The Circle; Magic Mike; Interview with the Vampire; The Shining; Shining Through; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Identical; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; Maximum Overdrive; The Mummy; The Snowman; Aloha

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 10.5

19 juli 2018 | 15 min

“Theodore Rex” Podcast Movie Review

17 juli 2018 | 53 min

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 the Ninja District.

THEODORE REX FACTS AND FIGURES

Direct-to-video release date: July 2, 1996

Production budget: $33.5 million

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB synopsis: “In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.”

This week’s beer: New Glory Brewing’s Citra Mon Pale Ale (6% ABV)

This week’s referenced movies: Bright; Grudge Match; Demolition Man; Dick Tracy; Harold and Maude; Brewster McCloud; Lethal Weapon; Shaft; Robocop; I’m No Angel; Big; Hackers; Rollerbabies; Hook; Howard the Duck; Young Sherlock Holmes; Far from Home; Beverly Hills Cop; The Bone Collector; Casablanca; Star Wars; Batman; My Science Project; Sister Act; The Color Purple; Ghost; Eddie; Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit; Made in America; Fatal Beauty; Telephone

Ratings for Theodore Rex: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 9.5

12 juli 2018 | 14 min

“The Circle” Podcast Movie Review

10 juli 2018 | 51 min

Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 8.5

5 juli 2018 | 22 min

“Shining Through” Podcast Movie Review

3 juli 2018 | 46 min

Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas in Shining Through

Shining Through (1992; David Seltzer) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 8

“I want you to taste my strudel!”

Open wide, film fans.

Joely Richardson Fan Club President Corky McDonnell and raw dove aficionado Daniel Barnes break out their absolute worst Melanie Griffith impressions to review her Razzie-winning performance in David Seltzer’s 1992 snoozer Shining Through.

Griffith stars as a spunky secretary turned spy who falls for a sexually aggressive superior played by who else but Michael Douglas. This life-draining WWII romance is unfathomably idiotic, even for a Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas movie.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky take issue with the heroine’s unpredictable cooking skills, the unbelievable stupidity of Nazi Liam Neeson and the unusual importance of strudel.

SHINING THROUGH FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: January 31, 1992

Domestic box office: $21.6 million ($43.8 million worldwide gross)

Critics scores: 44 on Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB synopsis: “An American woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage goes undercover in Nazi Germany.”

This week’s beer: Revision Brewing’s Whole Lotta Ruckus NE-style DIPA (8% ABV)

This week’s referenced movies: Working Girl; Basic Instinct; Lucas; Punchline; My Giant; The Snowman; Aloha; Airplane!; The Mortal Storm; Windtalkers; Body Double; Radio Days; Casablanca; The Fighting 69th; Road House; Marathon Man; Mr. Majestyk; The Princess Bride; Nobody’s Fool; Something Wild; Bright; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; The Circle

Ratings for Shining Through: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Siskel and Ebert review Shining Through

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 7.5

28 juni 2018 | 16 min

Dare Daniel Podcast – all three “Fifty Shades” films

26 juni 2018 | 88 min

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 one epic episode.

Resisting the urge to change directors one-third of the way through the show, the hosts improvise songs about sex denim. Meanwhile, Corky wonders if BDSM stands for Bills/Dollars/Scratch/Moolah and Daniel does the show’s first-ever spit take.

This week’s beers: Revision Reno as F*** (8% ABV); Fieldwork Lilith (8%); Alvarado Street/Burgeon Root Bound (8.1%); New Glory Only the Clouds (8%)

This week’s referenced movies: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; Blade Runner; Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Glengarry Glen Ross; After Dark, My Sweet; At Close Range; The Snowman; Don’t Look Now; Eyes Wide Shut; The Silence of the Lambs; Crocodile Dundee; Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!; The Godfather; Aloha; Hard Ticket to Hawaii; The Graduate; The Identical

Ratings for Fifty Shades of Grey: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Ratings for Fifty Shades Darker: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Ratings for Fifty Shades Freed: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 6.5

21 juni 2018 | 23 min

“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” Podcast Movie Review

19 juni 2018 | 51 min

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 analysis from Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, Daniel and Corky discuss the merits of “filmmaking vomit,” the significance of the slow-motion scream and the many faces of Goosefat Bill.

U.S. theatrical release date: May 12, 2017

IMDB synopsis: “Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy – whether he likes it or not.”

This week’s beer: Device’s Curious Haze (7% ABV)

This week’s referenced movies: First Knight; King Arthur (2004); Snatched (2017); Black Panther; Star Wars, Batman, Spider-Man, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter film franchises; Robin Hood (2010); Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch’d; Ghost Rider; Masters of the Universe; The Little Mermaid; The Sons of Katie Elder; The Princess Bride; Quigley Down Under; Reservoir Dogs; Death Becomes Her; Footloose; 300; It’s a Wonderful Life; Aladdin; Oh, God! Book II; Beowulf; The Polar Express; Chinatown; Casablanca; Shining Through

Ratings for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: Daniel: Dare; Corky: Dare

Follow Dare Daniel on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Be sure to listen, rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and more. New episodes come out every other Tuesday! Help support the show by clicking the Donate button on the Dare Daniel homepage, and send us your movie dares. Read more of Daniel’s movie reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes.

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 5.5

12 juni 2018 | 20 min

“The Snowman” Podcast Movie Review

5 juni 2018 | 50 min

The Snowman (2017; Tomas Alfredson) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 5

Hello Mister Filmmaker. You only shot 85 percent of the clues. You are very bad at your job.

Winter Sports World Cup enthusiasts Daniel and Corky take their detective boxes to the snowy streets of Oslo for this week’s review of Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman. This laughable murder-mystery stars Michael Fassbender as a damaged policeman hunting an ice-obsessed serial killer. Meanwhile, Rebecca Ferguson co-stars as someone who may or may not die.

Throughout the episode, Daniel and Corky fail to make sense of a nonsensical movie less famous than its meme. Elsewhere, your hosts discuss drunk-detective cliches, bet coffee beans on a character’s life, and do their absolute worst Buffalo Bill impressions.

THE SNOWMAN FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: October 20, 2017

Domestic box office: $6.7 million (production budget: $35 million)

Critic scores: 7 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on Metacritic

This week’s beer: Prairie Flare gose (5.4% ABV)

IMDB synopsis: “Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.”

This week’s referenced movies: Aloha; Let the Right One In; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Big Sleep; Basic Instinct; The Wings of the Dove; Drive; Vibes; The Silence of the Lambs; Batman; Sleepaway Camp; Nymphomaniac; M; Pulp Fiction; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Ratings for The Snowman: Daniel: Double Dare; Corky: Double Dare

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A “staged suicide”

Follow Dare Daniel on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Be sure to listen, rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and more. New episodes come out every other Tuesday! Help support the show by clicking the Donate button on the Dare Daniel homepage, and send us your movie dares. Read more of Daniel’s movie reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes.

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Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 4.5

29 maj 2018 | 17 min

“Aloha” Podcast Movie Review

22 maj 2018 | 52 min

Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 3.5

15 maj 2018 | 23 min

“Bright” Podcast Movie Review

8 maj 2018 | 44 min

Film Podcast – Dare Daniel Mini-Episode 2.5

1 maj 2018 | 26 min

“The Identical” Podcast Movie Review

24 april 2018 | 43 min

Blake rayne, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta in The Identical

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 of baby giveaways, and the unexpectedly swanky life of celebrity impersonators.

THE IDENTICAL FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: September 5, 2014

Domestic box office: $2.8 million (production budget: $16 million)

Critic scores: 6 on Rotten Tomatoes; 25 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “Twin brothers are unknowingly separated at birth; one of them becomes an iconic rock ‘n’ roll star, while the other struggles to balance his love for music and pleasing his father.”

This week’s beer: Revision Brewing Company’s The Bruff Imperial NE-Style IPA (8% ABV)

This week’s referenced movies: Clambake; Grudge Match; Forrest Gump; Frankenstein; Being John Malkovich; Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; Can’t Hardly Wait; The Butterfly Effect; Boogie Nights; Bright

Ratings for The Identical: Daniel: Double Dare; Corky: Dare (later changed to Double Dare)

Ryan Wade performs for Drexel Hemsley

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“Grudge Match” Podcast Movie Review

17 april 2018 | 35 min

Dare Daniel Podcast

Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell do your dirty work by reviewing the worst movies you can imagine.

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Vertigo – Canon Fodder Episode 36

Vertigo (1958; Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock)

Canon Fodder Episode 36

VERTIGO FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Charulata – Canon Fodder Episode 35

Charulata (1964; Dir.: Satyajit Ray)

Canon Fodder Episode 35

CHARULATA FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Happy Together – Canon Fodder Episode 34

Happy Together (1997; Dir.: Wong Kar-Wai)

Canon Fodder Episode 34

HAPPY TOGETHER FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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The Watermelon Woman – Canon Fodder Episode 33

The Watermelon Woman (1996; Dir.: Cheryl Dunye)

Canon Fodder Episode 33

THE WATERMELON WOMAN FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Memories of Underdevelopment – Canon Fodder Episode 32

Memories of Underdevelopment (1968; Dir.: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

Canon Fodder Episode 32

MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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The Real “To Be or Not to Be” (1942) – Canon Fodder Episode 31

To Be or Not to Be (1942; Dir.: Ernst Lubitsch)

Canon Fodder Episode 31

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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India Song – Canon Fodder Episode 30

India Song (1975; Dir.: Marguerite Duras)

Canon Fodder Episode 30

INDIA SONG FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024

Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Canon Fodder Best of 2024

Canon Fodder Best of 2024

CANON FODDER FACTS & FIGURES

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Sambizanga – Canon Fodder Episode 29

Sambizanga (1972; Dir.: Sarah Maldoror)

Canon Fodder Episode 29

SAMBIZANGA FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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The Color of Pomegranates – Canon Fodder Episode 28

The Color of Pomegranates (1969; Dir.: Sergei Parajanov)

Canon Fodder Episode 28

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES FACTS & FIGURES

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

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Come and See – Canon Fodder Episode 27

Come and See (1985; Dir.: Elem Klimov)

Canon Fodder Episode 27