Cap'n Howdy's Blogorium

 This is it. I spent a long time going back and forth between The Wolf of Wall Street and her , between Martin Scorsese and Spike Jonze, a...

  The Wolf of Wall Street is a study in excess, told in a masterful fashion, and a damn funny one at that, which continues to be misinterp...

 When Richard Linklater is on, I can sit in front of the screen with a big old dumb smile on my face. The Cap'n has had a somewhat scat...

 Unless he's got a light-hearted comedy lined up next, I don't think anybody is ever going to accuse Steve McQueen of making easy m...

 Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was a particularly influential figure in the New York folk music scene during the early 1960s, to the point he w...

 For a long time this year, Stoker was the strongest contender for my favorite movie of 2013. It's a testament to the movies to come t...

 I'm not sure that I could tell you what Upstream Color is about. Then again, I'm not sure that writer / director / co-star Shane ...

 I mentioned somewhere in the "middle" recap that This is the End was probably the funniest comedy I'd seen in 2013, but The...

 Woody Allen has been making a movie every year for a while now, and while consistency has never been his strong suit, that's always so...

  When I was working on the recap of "the middle," it was tempting to put Mud in the "Novel-less Adaptations," but I d...

 It was around the ski masks and shotguns ballet to Britney Spears' "Every Time" that I began to really appreciate the twist...

 Somehow over the course of a month the Cap'n went from being in the majority to the minority with respect to American Hustle . At the ...