Author: Jay Ruud

[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Susanns.jpg’ attachment=’78’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Avengers: Age of Ultron 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] Summer is icumin in, loude sing “kerblam”! If it is May, it must be time for groups of comic book characters to save the world from certain destruction, and to do it while… Continue reading Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron by Joss Wheden

[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating The Sound Of Music Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Roger Ebert claimed never to have seen The Sound of Music. To my knowledge he never expanded on that statement, but it might be inferred that the great critic was suggesting he had no… Continue reading Movie Review: The Sound of Music by Robert Wise

[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SusannTennyson.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating Woman In Gold Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] If you’ve been to Vienna, you almost certainly have visited the Belvedere Schloss, the great Hapsburg estate now used mainly as an art museum—and you have therefore had a chance to view the Gustav Klimt masterpiece,… Continue reading Movie Review: Woman in Gold by Simon Curtis

There have been dozens of movies about baseball, from the pure comedy of Walter Mathau’s iconic turn in The Bad News Bears, to the singing and dancing double play combination of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Take Me Out to the Ballgame, to Tommy Lee Jones’ brilliant portrayal of a sociopathic star in Cobb.… Continue reading The Top Ten Baseball Movies EVAH!