Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare Daniel
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
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
- Canon Fodder – The Green Ray
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E61.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – Andrei Rublev
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E60.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – A Touch of Zen
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E59.mp3 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 revi…
- Single Take – “Hamlet” (2026)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SINGLETAKE_S01_E09_Hamlet-The-Bone-Temple.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 9 Interminably disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes is back with another episode of his wet and wild Sing…
- Single Take – “The Drama” and “Miroirs No. 3”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SINGLETAKE_S01_E08_TheDramaMiroirsNo3.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 8 Irregularly disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes is back with another episode of his boffo blockbuster Sing…
- Canon Fodder – The Night of the Hunter
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E58.mp3 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 Mi…
- Single Take – “Project Hail Mary” and “Ready or Not 2”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/SINGLETAKE_S01_E07_ProjectHailMaryReadyOrNot2Alternate-1.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 7 Regularly disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his world…
- Canon Fodder – Brief Encounter
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E57.mp3 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…
- Single Take – “Hoppers” and “In the Blink of an Eye”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/SINGLETAKE_S01_E06_HoppersInTheBlinkOfAnEye.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 6 Sporadically disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his smash hit Singl…
- Canon Fodder – Orlando (1992)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E56.mp3 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 ada…
- Single Take – “Scream 7” & “Dreams”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SINGLETAKE_S01_E05_Scream7Dreams.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 5 Perennially disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his white-hot Single Take podca…
- Single Take – “Kokuho” and “Young Mothers”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SINGLETAKE_S01_E04_KokuhoYoungMothers.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 4 Gracefully disgraced film critic Daniel Barnes returns with another episode of his outrageously popular Si…
- Canon Fodder – A Woman Under the Influence
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E55.mp3 A Woman Under the Influence (1974; Dir.: John Cassavetes) Canon Fodder Episode 55 Podcast influencers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell recorded this episode while…
- Single Take – “Wuthering Heights” and “The President’s Cake”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SINGLETAKE_S01_E03_WutheringHeightsPresidentsCake.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 3 Wuthering Heights (2026; Dir.: Emerald Fennell) DANIEL SAYS: BUMP IT *Now playing everywhere.…
- Canon Fodder – Where Is the Friend’s House
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E54.mp3 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…
- Single Take – “Send Help” & “The Rip”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SINGLETAKE_S01_E02_SendHelpTheRip.mp3 Single Take with Daniel Barnes Episode 2 Send Help (2026; Dir.: Sam Raimi) DANIEL SAYS: BUMP IT *Now playing everywhere. IMDB Synopsis: “An employee an…
- Single Take – “Atropia” & “Mercy”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SINGLE-TAKE_S01_E01_AtropiaMercy.mp3 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 se…
- Canon Fodder – Pierrot le Fou
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E53.mp3 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 Godar…
- Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2025
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_DanielBestOf2025.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder Best of 2025
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_BEST-OF-2025.mp3 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 Can…
- Canon Fodder – Metropolis (1927)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_E52.mp3 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 M…
- Canon Fodder – Paisan (1946)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E51.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – Vagabond (1985)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E50.mp3 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 Vagabon…
- Daniel Reviews “Die My Love” and “Predator: Badlands”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_BADLANDS-DIE-MY-LOVE.mp3 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 writ…
- Canon Fodder – Pather Panchali
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E49.mp3 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 ,…
- Daniel Reviews “Blue Moon” & “It Was Just an Accident”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_BLUE-MOON-ACCIDENT.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – Yi Yi (2000)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E48.mp3 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 hu…
- Canon Fodder – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E47.mp3 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-drive…
- Canon Fodder – My Darling Clementine
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E46.mp3 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 Tombst…
- Canon Fodder – A Canterbury Tale
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E45.mp3 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 T…
- Daniel Reviews “Relay” and “Eden” (2025)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_EDEN-RELAY.mp3 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 disco…
- Canon Fodder – Mirror (1975)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E44.mp3 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-to…
- Canon Fodder – The 400 Blows
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E43.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – Only Angels Have Wings
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E42.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – La Ciénaga
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E41.mp3 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…
- Canon Fodder – Army of Shadows
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E40.mp3 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-occupi…
- Canon Fodder – Videodrome
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E39.mp3 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 cla…
- Canon Fodder – Amarcord
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E38.mp3 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…
- Daniel Reviews “The Final Reckoning”
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoning-Daniel-Review-1.mp3 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025; Christopher McQuarrie) GRADE: B *Now playing everywhere. In this change-of-pace m…
- Canon Fodder – Cries & Whispers
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E37.mp3 Cries & Whispers (1972; Dir.: Ingmar Bergman) Canon Fodder Episode 37 Your hosts retreat to the red room in their most immaculately ivory-white finery to review thi…
- Canon Fodder – Vertigo
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E36.mp3 Vertigo (1958; Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock) Canon Fodder Episode 36 Daniel and Corky take a dizzying road trip through the streets of San Francisco in pursuit of Alfred…
- Canon Fodder – Charulata
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E35.mp3 Charulata (1964; Dir.: Satyajit Ray) Canon Fodder Episode 35 After the French fever dream of India Song , Daniel and Corys take their first real trip to the home co…
- Canon Fodder – Happy Together
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E34.mp3 Happy Together (1997; Dir.: Wong Kar-Wai) Canon Fodder Episode 34 Daniel and Corky rekindle their passion for Wong Kar-Wai by reviewing his 1997 film Happy Together…
- Canon Fodder – The Watermelon Woman
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E33.mp3 The Watermelon Woman (1996; Dir.: Cheryl Dunye) Canon Fodder Episode 33 Daniel and Corky share their thoughts on Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking The Watermelon Woman…
- Canon Fodder – Memories of Underdevelopment
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E32.mp3 Memories of Underdevelopment (1968; Dir.: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) Canon Fodder Episode 32 Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell take their traveling medicine show to Cast…
- Canon Fodder – To Be or Not to Be (1942)
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E31B.mp3 To Be or Not to Be (1942; Dir.: Ernst Lubitsch) Canon Fodder Episode 31 Daniel and Corky review Jack Benny, Carole Lombard and Robert Stack in Ernst Lubitsch’s To…
- Canon Fodder – India Song
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E30.mp3 India Song (1975; Dir.: Marguerite Duras) Canon Fodder Episode 30 Daniel and Corky travel to 1930s India by way of 1970s France for this haunting look at decaying c…
- Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_DanielBestOf2024.mp3 Daniel’s Best & Worst Films of 2024 Disgraced pseudo-film critic Daniel Barnes takes a solo excursion to share his picks for the best and worst films o…
- Canon Fodder Best of 2024
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_BestOfCF.mp3 Canon Fodder Best of 2024 Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell review their favorite films and moments from the first 29 episodes of the…
- Canon Fodder – Sambizanga
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_E29.mp3 Sambizanga (1972; Dir.: Sarah Maldoror) Canon Fodder Episode 29 Daniel and Corky finally bring their cinematic world tour caravan to Africa for this film from pione…