Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson (2017) [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=”] Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest offering, Phantom Thread, seems at first to be a strange choice for a Best Picture nominee. Though critics have been effusive about the film, actual audiences have been less… Continue reading Phantom Thread
Author: Jay Ruud
Pizza Hut
Review No. 94: Pizza Hut 705 Club Lane 47.6 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 327-4449 The Situation He Said: She Said was hankering for a pizza, and there’s certainly no lack of pizza places we have not yet reviewed in Conway, so we checked our short list of Restaurants To Review, and out… Continue reading Pizza Hut
Bonny Barbara Allan
I, Tonya
I, Tonya Craig Gillespie (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=”] Just in time for the winter Olympics, Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) revisits the big story of the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer: the worldwide scandal featuring American figure skaters… Continue reading I, Tonya
MarketPlace Grill
Review No. 93: MarketPlace Grill 599 Skyline Drive 47.0 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 336-0011 The Situation She Said: Some morning conference calls for my paying job as a market researcher gave me an appetite, and I recalled MarketPlace Grill, which we had not visited in at least 10 years, maybe more. I figured… Continue reading MarketPlace Grill
John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem”
Hostiles
Hostiles Scott Cooper (2017) [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-hov Hostiles, the new western directed and co-written by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass), begins with a stark quotation from D.H. Lawrence: “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer.” While this does seem to sum… Continue reading Hostiles
Taco Bueno
Review #92: Taco Bueno 1155 Dave Ward Drive 46.8 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 450-3999 The Situation He Said: So She Said was out of town all week, but we didn’t want to skip a week of reviewing (these Conway restaurants aren’t going to review themselves! OK, well, maybe they are, but we’re… Continue reading Taco Bueno
The Shape of Water
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
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