Moonlight Barry Jenkins (2016) [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=”] One of the 2016’s most acclaimed independent films has at last made it to the cinema in Conway, so you’d better get to see it quick before it’s gone. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight… Continue reading Moonlight
Author: Jay Ruud
Fat Daddy’s Bar-B-Que
Review No. 39: Fat Daddy’s Bar-B-Que 1004 Oak Street (501) 358-6363 22.2 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: Fat Daddy’s has been a Russellville institution since 2006, famous, apparently, for its Loin Back Ribs with brown sugar glaze. Since 2010, there have been two Russellville locations, and in 2016, management decided… Continue reading Fat Daddy’s Bar-B-Que
Dylan Thomas’s “In My Craft or Sullen Art”
Patriots Day
Patriots Day Peter Berg (2016) [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 ever been in a big marathon, a half-marathon, or even a 5K, with thousands of other runners, or stood around the crowded finish line cheering on somebody who was running, especially on a sunny spring… Continue reading Patriots Day
Blue Sail Coffee (Downtown)
Review No. 38: Blue Sail Coffee Downtown 1028 Front Street (501) 358-6188 21.6 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I had some chapters to catch up on in the biography I’m reading of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, grandson of the ninth president. I was antsy and wanted… Continue reading Blue Sail Coffee (Downtown)
Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind”
Jackie
Jackie Pablo Larrain (2016) [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] One of the most acclaimed films of the silent era—indeed, a film often listed among the “top ten” films of all time—is Carl Theodore Dreyer’s 1928 classic The Passion of Joan of Arc. Dreyer’s… Continue reading Jackie
Subway (Oak Street)
Review No. 37: Subway 855 E Oak St. (501) 327-0656 21.9 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: Jones got home from her Personal Trainer and was quite hungry (doesn’t that sound like a First World Problem), and threatened me with bodily harm if I did not get in the car right… Continue reading Subway (Oak Street)
Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” from the General Prologue
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures Theodore Melfi (2016) [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’] 1961 was that moment in history when the federal government was drawn reluctantly into the Civil Rights movement and, under president Kennedy, began to challenge state laws, particularly in the South, that institutionalized racism in direct violation of… Continue reading Hidden Figures