Author: Jay Ruud

[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 Far from the Madding Crowd Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] If you’re looking for an antidote to the nonstop action or violence so typical of the summer blockbuster as we know it, you may be in the market for the newest film version… Continue reading Movie Review: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Vinterberg

[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Mad Max – Fury Road 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] Thirty years ago Australian director George Miller made Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the third in his series of post-apocalyptic road-warrior movies, and it appeared to be the last—he went on to make innocuous… Continue reading Movie Review: Mad Max – Fury Road by George Miller

[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