Cap'n Howdy's Blogorium

 I'm a little perplexed by all of the attention Moneyball received during "Awards Season." It's not that the film isn...

 When reading reviews for Martin Scorsese's Hugo , his first 3-D film (and arguably first family film, although I certainly don't se...

 Let's jump back to November of 1999, somewhere in the greater Guilford County area of North Carolina. A young Cap'n was a... sophom...

  My Week with Marilyn is a good enough to pretty good movie that I just didn't really connect with. It's a well made movie, and it...

 There were a number of happy surprises for the Cap'n at Nevermore this year, but I'm giving the top spot to Absentia from writer /...

  Some Guy Who Kills People threw me for a loop; it was playing at the Nevermore Film Festival, which leaned heavily in the direction of ho...

 Or was it Panic Room and then Death to Smoochy ? It's so hard to say these days, as memories get hazy... in fact, it's been almost...

 This past weekend Cap'n Howdy had the distinct pleasure of attending the 13th annual Nevermore Film Festival in Durham, NC. How it was...

 I like westerns. I like movies about alien invasions (usually). I like Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, ...

 I can't really remember how or why it happened, but Planet of the Apes and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ended up in an improbabl...

  Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is the latest entry in what I like to call the "killbilly" genre: I guess you could say it started wit...

 How would I know? I didn't see it. I was too busy picking up my copy of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One to be bothered with ...

 I feel like there should be some kind of criteria for reviewing direct to video sequels. See, they're almost never going to "hold ...