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Author: Jay Ruud
Movie Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service by Matthew Vaughan
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Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: The Effort by Billy Collins
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Movie Review: MacFarland, U.S.A. by Niki Caro
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Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men’s Eyes by Shakespeare
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Trivia Question for February 25
Anthony Burgess was born on this date in 1917. What name is actually on his birth certificate? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-february-25/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Top Ten Films of 2014 (With Incidental Oscar Predictions)
Living in the hinterlands of Arkansas rather than New York or Los Angeles, we don’t get to see many of the best films of one year until two months into the next, which is why a “Best of 2014” list can’t come out until today, the day of the Oscars, since it is only within… Continue reading Top Ten Films of 2014 (With Incidental Oscar Predictions)
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
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Trivia Question for February 18
On this date in 1885, Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn was published. What writer had this to say about Twain’s great novel? All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. [av_button… Continue reading Trivia Question for February 18
Movie Review: Still Alice by Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland
[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 STILL ALICE Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Julianne Moore is nominated for an academy award this year for the fifth time in her distinguished career: She lost in the leading actress category for The End of the Affair and Far from Heaven, in… Continue reading Movie Review: Still Alice by Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland