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Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel
by Dare Daniel Family of Podcasts
Film critic Daniel Barnes offers his singular take on the newest releases on Single Take with Daniel Barnes. On the Canon Fodder podcast, comedian Corky McDonnell joins Daniel to offer their irreverent takes on classic movies from the Sight & Sound Top 250. And Daniel and Corky do your dirty work by reviewing the worst movies you can imagine on the Dare Daniel podcast.
Episodes
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Canon Fodder – Grave of the Fireflies
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E72.mp3 Grave of the Fireflies (1988; Directed by Isao Takahata) Canon Fodder Episode 72 This week, Daniel and Corky follow the light to Isao Takahata’s devastating Grave of the Fireflies. Set in Kobe during the final days of…
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Canon Fodder – Beau Travail
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E71.mp3 Beau Travail (1999; Directed by Claire Denis) Canon Fodder Episode 71 This week, Daniel and Corky join the French Foreign Legion to review Claire Denis’ spell-binding Beau Travail. Shot on location in Djibouti, Denis’…
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Canon Fodder – Casablanca
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E70.mp3 Casablanca (1942; Directed by Michael Curtiz) Canon Fodder Episode 70 This week on the Canon Fodder podcast, Daniel and Corky play it again with Michael Curtiz’s legendary Casablanca. A model of studio-era storytelling,...
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Canon Fodder – Born in Flames
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E69.mp3 Born in Flames (1983; Directed by Lizzie Borden) Canon Fodder Episode 69 This week, Daniel and Corky light the fuse with Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames. Told through pirate radio broadcasts, surveillance footage, fake news...
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Canon Fodder – Touki Bouki
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E68.mp3 Touki Bouki (1973; Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty) Canon Fodder Episode 68 This week, Daniel and Corky hit the road again with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki. Blending French New Wave style, African oral traditions…
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Canon Fodder – The Gospel According to St. Matthew
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E67.mp3 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) Canon Fodder Episode 67 This week, Daniel and Corky spread the good word about Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Shot…
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Canon Fodder – The Battle of Algiers
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E66.mp3 The Battle of Algiers (1966; Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo) Canon Fodder Episode 66 This week, Daniel and Corky rock the Casbah with their review of The Battle of Algiers. Shot with the urgency of breaking news, Gillo...
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Canon Fodder – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E65.mp3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Directed by John Ford) Canon Fodder Episode 65 After printing the legend, maiming the facts, and murdering the truth execution-style, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell ride into town...
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Canon Fodder – Werckmeister Harmonies
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E64.mp3 Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Dir.: Bela Tarr) Canon Fodder Episode 64 With the cold, dead eyes of stuffed whales, cinematic world travelers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell finally arrive in a remote, fog-shrouded...
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Canon Fodder – L’Atalante
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E63.mp3 L’Atalante (1934; Dir.: Jean Vigo) Canon Fodder Episode 63 Corky McDonnell and his slovenly first mate Daniel Barnes continue their cinematic world tour with the most magically dreamlike movie ever set in a fetid, filthy,...
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Canon Fodder – Out of the Past
Out of the Past (1947; Dir.: Jacques Tourneur) Canon Fodder Episode 62 Daniel and Corky take a long drive into the past to review Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past. The epitome of film noir, Out of the Past is everything your […] The post Canon…
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Canon Fodder – The Green Ray
The Green Ray (1986; Dir.: Eric Rohmer) Canon Fodder Episode 61 After spending several months deciding where to hold the annual Canon Fodder company retreat, Daniel and Corky slouch all the way from Cherbourg to Biarritz to review Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray. Also known as Le Rayon […] The post...
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Canon Fodder – Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev (1966; Dir.: Andrei Tarkovsky) Canon Fodder Episode 60 For their latest cinematic adventure, Daniel and Corky take a hang-gliding tour of 15th century Russia to review Andrei Tarkovsky’s remarkable Andrei Rublev. A visually awe-inspiring anti-biopic of the legendary icon painter,...
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Canon Fodder – A Touch of Zen
A Touch of Zen (1971; Dir.: King Hu) Canon Fodder Episode 59 In this highly enlightened episode, Daniel and Corky bring their cinematic world tour to Taiwan to review King Hu’s widescreen wuxia epic. A story of corruption, subterfuge, and ghosts both real and imaginary, A Touch of Zen starts slow...
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Single Take – “Hamlet” (2026)
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 9 Interminably disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes is back with another episode of his wet and wild Single Take podcast. This week, Daniel reviews Riz Ahmed, all melancholy and no Dane in the title role of Aneil Karia’s reimagined Hamlet (2026). Daniel also...
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Single Take – “The Drama” and “Miroirs No. 3”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 8 Irregularly disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes is back with another episode of his boffo blockbuster Single Take podcast. Although he was never really a plumber, Daniel shook up the 2008 presidential race when he confronted Barack Obama about… Oh shoot…
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Canon Fodder – The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter (1955; Dir.: Charles Laughton) Canon Fodder Episode 58 Daniel and Corky are leaning… leaning… leaning on the everlasting charms of Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s stone-cold masterpiece The Night of the Hunter. Unquestionably the greatest film directed by someone who...
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Single Take – “Project Hail Mary” and “Ready or Not 2”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 7 Regularly disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his world record-setting Single Take podcast. One of the first true MySpace celebrities, Daniel is best known for starring in the reality show A Shot at Love, although a...
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Canon Fodder – Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter (1945; Dir.: David Lean) Canon Fodder Episode 57 On this very stiff-upper-lip episode, Daniel and Corky make a date to review David Lean’s masterful romance Brief Encounter. A seemingly simple yet remarkably complex story of an illicit affair elevated by Lean’s cinematic mastery,...
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Single Take – “Hoppers” and “In the Blink of an Eye”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 6 Sporadically disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his smash hit Single Take podcast. Best known for recycling animal byproducts into protein meal, fats and biofuel ingredients, Daniel is famed for reducing waste and… Hang on…
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Canon Fodder – Orlando (1992)
Orlando (1992; Dir.: Sally Potter) Canon Fodder Episode 56 Daniel and Corky cut their central Florida vacation short to review Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992). An adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel long thought unfilmable, Orlando provided the supernatural Tilda Swinton with her breakout role.…
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Single Take – “Scream 7” & “Dreams”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 5 Perennially disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his white-hot Single Take podcast. A born entertainer known for his incredibly affable personality, Daniel boasts numerous stage and screen credits. But he’s perhaps best known...
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Single Take – “Kokuho” and “Young Mothers”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 4 Gracefully disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his outrageously popular Single Take podcast. Also known as wolfram, Daniel is a steel-grey metal with an unusually high melting point. Often used as an industrial catalyst,...
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Canon Fodder – A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence (1974; Dir.: John Cassavetes) Canon Fodder Episode 55 Podcast influencers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell recorded this episode while under the influence of Gena Rowlands’ powerhouse performance in this naturalistic yet weirdly wacky domestic drama. Your hosts can…
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Single Take – “Wuthering Heights” and “The President’s Cake”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 3 Wuthering Heights (2026; Dir.: Emerald Fennell) DANIEL SAYS: BUMP IT *Now playing everywhere. IMDB Synopsis: “A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between...
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Canon Fodder – Where Is the Friend’s House
Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987; Dir.: Abbas Kiarostami) Canon Fodder Episode 54 The first film in Kiarostami’s so-called “Koker trilogy,” Where Is the Friend’s House? is a universally recognizable yet culturally and regionally specific slice-of-life with surprising moments of comedy and...
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Single Take – “Send Help” & “The Rip”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 2 Send Help (2026; Dir.: Sam Raimi) DANIEL SAYS: BUMP IT *Now playing everywhere. IMDB Synopsis: “An employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Here, they must overcome past grievances and…
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Single Take – “Atropia” & “Mercy”
Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 1 Atropia (2026; Dir.: Hailey Gates) DANIEL SAYS: DUMP IT *Now playing in the San Francisco Bay Area and other select markets. IMDB Synopsis: “Follows an aspiring actress working on a U.S. military base that simulates an Iraqi war zone.” Mercy (2026; […] The...
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Canon Fodder – Pierrot le Fou
Pierrot le Fou (1965; Dir.: Jean-Luc Godard) Canon Fodder Episode 53 Daniel and Corky go on the lam with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina to review Jean-Luc Godard’s apocalyptic road movie Pierrot le Fou. But were your hosts Vague-ly entranced by Godard’s Nouvelle vision, or did they act the…
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Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2025
Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2025 Quasi-disgraced pseudo-critic Daniel Barnes takes a solo excursion through the year in cinema to share his best and worst films of 2025. Daniel also discusses some of the awards contenders, blockbusters and bombs that did not make either of his lists. […] The...
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Canon Fodder Best of 2025
Canon Fodder Best of 2025 Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell review their favorite films and moments from the last year of the Canon Fodder podcast. Your hosts also offer bonus mini-reviews and rulings on disputed films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day...
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Canon Fodder – Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis (1927; Dir.: Fritz Lang) Canon Fodder Episode 52 Daniel and Corky crank up the city lights for the jaw-dropping dystopia of Fritz Lang’s fully restored Metropolis (1927). Directly or indirectly influencing a century of pop culture from Blade Runner to Diamond Dogs, Lang’s film…
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Canon Fodder – Paisan (1946)
Paisan (1946; Dir.: Roberto Rossellini) Canon Fodder Episode 51 Daniel and Corky keep it Neo-Real with their review of Italian Neo-Realist icon Roberto Rossellini’s highly influential Paisan. Rather than simple tales of heroes at war, Rossellini offers bitterness-tinged stories of tenuous...
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Canon Fodder – Vagabond (1985)
Vagabond (1985; Dir.: Agnes Varda) Canon Fodder Episode 50 Daniel and Corky explore the dark side of the sunny South of France with Agnes Varda’s 1985 movie Vagabond. Sandrine Bonnaire plays the equally frustrating and fascinating title character, a young woman trudging across the French...
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Daniel Reviews “Die My Love” and “Predator: Badlands”
Die My Love (2025; Dir.: Lynne Ramsay) GRADE: C+ *Now playing in the San Francisco Bay Area and other select markets. IMDB Synopsis: “Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting […] The post Daniel Reviews...
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Canon Fodder – Pather Panchali
Pather Panchali (1955; Dir.: Satyajit Ray) Canon Fodder Episode 49 Daniel and Corky follow the song of the little road to 1910’s Bengal to review Pather Panchali, the first film in Satyajit Ray’s storied Apu Trilogy. Elsewhere, Daniel discusses the big winners and awards season favorites from…
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Daniel Reviews “Blue Moon” & “It Was Just an Accident”
Blue Moon (2025; Dir.: Richard Linklater) GRADE: B- *Now playing at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. IMDB Synopsis: “Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of Oklahoma!” It Was Just an Accident (2025; Dir.: […] The...
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Canon Fodder – Yi Yi (2000)
Yi Yi (2000; Dir.: Edward Yang) Canon Fodder Episode 48 Daniel and Corky turn to turn-of-the-century Taiwan to review Edward Yang’s richly Renoir-ian tapestry of humanity. Yang offers a seemingly bottomless reservoir of empathy in Yi Yi, but did your hosts appreciate the plunge or did they sink...
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Canon Fodder – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Dir.: Werner Herzog) Canon Fodder Episode 47 Daniel and Corky descend through the clouds to review Klaus Kinski as a conquest-driven conquistador in Werner Herzog’s masterpiece. The rare absurdist-realist intimate epic, Aguirre is an impossible-to-recreate fever...
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Canon Fodder – My Darling Clementine
My Darling Clementine (1946; Dir.: John Ford) Canon Fodder Episode 46 Daniel and Corky rustle up a mess of vittles and head to the “rough-looking country” of Tombstone to review this masterful western, arguably the least factual yet most definitive take on the Wyatt Earp/OK Corral legend. But […]...
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Canon Fodder – A Canterbury Tale
A Canterbury Tale (1944; Dir.: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) Canon Fodder Episode 45 Podcasting pilgrims Daniel and Corky voyage to the WWII-era England of The Archers by way of the 14th-century England of Chaucer to review A Canterbury Tale. This star-studless small-town mystery has all…
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Daniel Reviews “Relay” and “Eden” (2025)
Eden (2025; Ron Howard) GRADE: B *Now playing. IMDB Synopsis: “Based on a factual account of a group of outsiders who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.” Relay (2025; David Mackenzie) GRADE: B- […] The post...
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Canon Fodder – Mirror (1975)
Mirror (1975; Dir.: Andrei Tarkovsky) Canon Fodder Episode 44 Daniel and Corky are in a reflective mood this week as they review Andrei Tarkovsky’s semi-auto-bio-tour-de-force Mirror. Did this dreamlike film shatter your hosts beliefs about the artistic possibilities of cinema, or were their...
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Canon Fodder – The 400 Blows
The 400 Blows (1959; Dir.: Francois Truffaut) Canon Fodder Episode 43 Daniel and Corky ride the French New Wave all the way back to boyhood with their review of The 400 Blows. Instantly recognizable to anyone who was ever a child, this debut film from Francois Truffaut helped […] The post Canon...
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Canon Fodder – Only Angels Have Wings
Only Angels Have Wings (1939; Dir.: Howard Hawks) Canon Fodder Episode 42 Your hosts continue their cinematic world tour by jetting to the fictional South American port town of Barranca. Only Angels Have Wings is one of the most revered movies by Howard Hawks. But were your hosts rapt-or with […]...
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Canon Fodder – La Ciénaga
La Ciénaga (2001; Dir.: Lucrecia Martel) Canon Fodder Episode 41 Daniel and Corky drain the swamp with their review of New Argentine Cinema legend Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga. Your hosts are always down for a fetid pool party, and they already lost their heads to The Headless Woman. […] The post...
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Canon Fodder – Army of Shadows
Army of Shadows (1969; Dir.: Jean-Pierre Melville) Canon Fodder Episode 40 Daniel and Corky celebrate the 40th episode of Canon Fodder with a sojourn to Nazi-occupied France for Army of Shadows. This stark, episodic look at the moral shadows of the French Resistance found a loyal following…
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Canon Fodder – Videodrome
Videodrome (1983; Dir.: David Cronenberg) Canon Fodder Episode 39 Daniel and Corky put on their finest Canadian tuxedos to review James Woods in the body horror classic Videodrome. But did your hosts “open up to” Cronenberg’s vision, or were their torso tape players incompatible with the film’s...
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Canon Fodder – Amarcord
Amarcord (1973; Dir.: Federico Fellini) Canon Fodder Episode 38 “When the puffballs soar, winter is no more.” Daniel and Corky sail down memory lane to 1930s Italy for this beguiling semi-pseudo-autobiographical masterwork from Il Maestro. But did this highly influential film give your hosts...
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Daniel Reviews “The Final Reckoning”
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025; Christopher McQuarrie) GRADE: B *Now playing everywhere. In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible film. Listen along as Daniel talks to himself about auteurs,...
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Film critic Daniel Barnes offers his singular take on the newest releases on Single Take with Daniel Barnes. On the Canon Fodder podcast, comedian Corky McDonnell joins Daniel to offer their irreverent takes on classic movies from the Sight & Sound Top 250. And Daniel and Corky do your dirty work by reviewing the worst movies you can imagine on the Dare Daniel podcast.
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Film critic Daniel Barnes offers his singular take on the newest releases on Single Take with Daniel Barnes. On the Canon Fodder podcast, comedian Corky McDonnell joins Daniel to offer their irreverent takes on classic movies from the Sight & Sound Top 250. And Daniel and Corky do your dirty work...
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