Author: Jay Ruud

[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’] Ruud Rating Race 3 Tennysons [/av_image] Jesse Owens’ incredible four gold medals at Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics, conceived as a showcase for the superiority of the Aryan race, is the most dramatic story in 20th century sports. That it took 80 years for… Continue reading Movie Review: Race by Stephen Hopkins

[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’] RUUD RATING Deadpool 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] Prior to this weekend’s opening—an opening that established a new record for motion pictures premiering in February (and, by the way, for R-rated movies as well)—only Marvel comics aficionados would have heard of the super-anti-hero “Deadpool.” After… Continue reading Movie Review: Deadpool by Tim Miller

[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’] RUUD RATING Hail Ceasar! 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] Hail Caesar, the newest film of the Coen brothers is not Fargo or No Country for Old Men or one of the brothers’ heavier films, and that seems to be what critics object to. That and… Continue reading Movie Review: Hail Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen

With the Academy Awards almost upon us and with a number of nominees that I have not reviewed, I’ve decided to put together a grab-bag of short reviews of four well-received smaller films that have been noticed—in some cases barely noticed—during this awards season: Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl nominated for four Oscars (for Lead… Continue reading Movie Reviews: 4 Mini Reviews for Awards Season

[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’] RUUD RATING 13 Hours 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] On the night of September 11-12, 2012, two American compounds in Benghazi, Libya—one an ill-defended consulate and the other a secret CIA base—were attacked and overrun by Libyan extremists, and in the process four Americans,… Continue reading Movie Review: 13 Hours by Michael Bay