Author: Jay Ruud
Stronger
Stronger David Gordon Green (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-hover’] Well, you won’t find this movie in Conway, and you’ll have to look pretty closely to find it anywhere in central Arkansas, I suppose because movie houses around here were committed for reasons known only to them to… Continue reading Stronger
Layla’s Gyros and Pizzeria
Review No. 76: Layla’s Gyros and Pizzeria 2755 Dave Ward Drive (501) 205-8224 38.7 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I developed a healthy obsession with Middle Eastern food when I lived in suburban Detroit for the summer of 1990: With its large Arabic population, the region has Middle Eastern restaurants… Continue reading Layla’s Gyros and Pizzeria
mother!
mother! Darren Aronofsky (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=”] Many people—I would venture to say most people—will not like Darren Aronofsky’s new film mother! When you take a look at the movie site RottenTomatoes.com and note that 68 percent of the critics have given… Continue reading mother!
Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
The Little Hours
The Little Hours Dan Baena (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=”] The closest thing to Jeff Baena’s film of The Little Hours that you’re likely to have seen is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Both films set their stories in the Middle Ages,… Continue reading The Little Hours
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Review No. 75: Tropical Smoothie Cafe 705 Club Lane (501) 764-4800 38.0 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I was pre-birthday dieting (to prep for eating all the foods the entire weekend I turned 48), so I wanted to find somewhere I could ingest nutrients at a low rate of calorie… Continue reading Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Stacey Margaret Jones’s “In The Delta”
Tulip Fever
Tulip Fever Justin Chadwick (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-hover’] If you have a lush period piece with gorgeous costumes and you get Sir Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony Award-winning playwright who also happens to have an Academy Award for penning Shakespeare in Love, to write your screenplay,… Continue reading Tulip Fever
Holly’s Country Cookin’
Review No. 74: Holly’s Country Cookin’ 120 Harkrider Street (501) 328-9738 37.6 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: We had been to Holly’s, a Conway institution since 1999, exactly once since moving to town 14 years ago, and we figured it was about time to go back. This Southern, home-cooking Mecca… Continue reading Holly’s Country Cookin’