Cap'n Howdy's Blogorium

Over the weekend, the Critics Awards began popping up, with the unified and regional branches checking in on their favorite films ....

The semester is winding down to a close, and over the next few days I'm actually going to be very busy getting things together for gradu...

It's nice to know that just because American vampires are becoming garbage and the domain of teenage girls, that somewhere overseas peop...

Thankfully, I lucked into a video daily double and a few other odds and ends in the land of film. --- At this point, I imagine many of you h...

"Bad movies happen to good directors. You'd think I would have learned that by now." I took a bullet for all of you last nig...

One of the reasons I retroactively dropped the Joe preview into Trailer Sunday is that Observe and Report is continually being compared to...

The Cap'n is back. Again. From yet another internet blackout. For those keeping count, this is the third time in a month that regular Bl...

Outlander is a good but not great movie about Vikings fighting Aliens. Jim Caviezel plays Kainan, a humanoid alien who crash lands on Earth...

This is a movie-related digression, one that the Cap'n is only bringing up because he knows a bit about the subject, and it's just a...

I've been revising the paper on Movie-going as Ritual , and I could have sworn I put up the second part of the research that you'd f...

Are any of you brave readers willing to bite the bullet for the old Cap'n? My schedule is going to be a little busy for the next nine da...

I've tried writing a review for Funny People that covered the sprawling narrative, the various subplots, minor character flourishes, an...

I'm still working on the Funny People review, so in the mean time the Cap'n would like to let you cool kids in on a special develop...

Remake update: The following remakes have been added to the "must be made before people wise up to this" queue - Maniac, I Spit ...

I'm very surprised to hit two movies in one week that I enjoyed this much. It's not often the Cap'n watches two films in two day...