The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro (2017) [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’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] With 13 Academy Award nominations, announced yesterday, The Shape of Water leads all other films of 2017. Released on December 22, Guillermo del Toro’s romantic horror-fantasy has had… Continue reading The Shape of Water
Author: Jay Ruud
Hog Pen BBQ
Review #91: Hog Pen BBQ 800 Walnut St, 46.2 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 327-5177 The Situation He Said: There are almost as many barbecue places in Conway as there are Mexican restaurants (and, as I have occasionally pointed out very subtly in the past, there are an awful lot of those). But… Continue reading Hog Pen BBQ
William Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Wanderers Nachtlied II”
The Post
The Post Steven Spielberg (2017) [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’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] When first-time screenwriter Liz Hannah wrote the original screenplay for The Post in 2016, it was in response to her reading of Katherine “Kay” Graham’s memoir Personal History. Hannah, inspired by… Continue reading The Post
Burritas
Review No. 90: Burritas 1220 Old Morrillton Highway (501) 428-8514 45.9 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I was coming from a very necessary post-vacation workout, but I was hungry, so I texted He Said and told him to meet me for lunch at Burritas. I’d had my eye on this… Continue reading Burritas
e.e. cummings’ “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World Ridley Scott (2017) [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’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] It may be inevitable that Ridley Scott’s new film, All the Money in the World, concerning the notorious 1973 kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson… Continue reading All the Money in the World
International House of Pancakes
Review No. 89: IHOP 1161 Old Morrilton Hwy (501) 764-4467 45.7 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: It was a Friday morning, and one that promised a day of great things, as neither of us actually had to go to work. Great vistas of free time were beginning to open before… Continue reading International House of Pancakes
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman Michael Gracey (2017) [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=10” appearance=’on-hover’] 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] Hugh Jackman has played Marvel’s Wolverine so often that it’s hard to remember he’s at heart a song-and-dance man, but a quick look back at his impressive work in Les Miserables is sufficient… Continue reading The Greatest Showman