Review No. 142: McAlister’s Deli 2465 Sanders Road (501) 513-1311 64.6 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: After successfully eating down a cold, I was ready to get back to low-carb eating and healthy foods, and I was hungry after a treadmill run, so when He Said suggested McAlister’s, I was… Continue reading McAlister’s Deli
Author: Jay Ruud
On the Basis of Sex
On the Basis of Sex Mimi Leder (2018) [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’] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] This new biopic about superstar Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is just out in wide release this week. Like many serious biopics filmed since Tony Kushner’s screenplay for Spielberg’s Lincoln,… Continue reading On the Basis of Sex
JJ’s Grill
Review No. 141: JJ’s Grill 1010 Main Street (501) 336-0100 64.5 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: We didn’t actually know whether JJ’s was local or part of a chain, having never crossed their threshold before. Turns out it is, actually, a chain—there are eight JJ’s locations in Arkansas, the local… Continue reading JJ’s Grill
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins (2018) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shakespeare-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’76’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] You might remember Barry Jenkins’ last film, a little thing called Moonlight, which garnered eight Academy Award nominations and took home three Oscars, including Best Picture. That film, which had… Continue reading If Beale Street Could Talk
Zaxby’s
Review No. 140: Zaxby’s 3800 Dave Ward Drive (501) 329-5000 64.0 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: Feeling like a mild repast after Epiphany church services, we decided to head out west on Dave Ward to Zaxby’s, a restaurant we’d never visited here or anywhere. I’m warning you, dear readers, that… Continue reading Zaxby’s
Vice
Vice Adam McKay (2018) [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’] “Facts are stubborn things,” Ronald Reagan once famously observed. I wonder if the Great Communicator could have foreseen how, within a generation of his presidency, his own party would put into power a man whose version of reality is… Continue reading Vice
Chaucer’s “Squire’s Portrait” from the General Prologue
Billy Collins’ “Species”
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns Rob Marshall (2018) [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’] And now for the sequel 54 years in the making. Disney’s new Mary Poppins Returns strives to capture, and sometimes succeeds in replicating, the charm and wonder of the original production, after generations of children have been raised… Continue reading Mary Poppins Returns
