Category: Review

[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’] Ruud Rating Absolutely Fabulous Mandie Fletcher (2016)   Longtime fans (who will likely make up the largest audience for this movie) will not need to be told, but for others let me just explain: Absolutely Fabulous was a BBC sitcom that gained a… Continue reading Absolutely Fabulous

[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 Jason Bourne Paul Greengrass (2016) 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image]   “I discovered in my heart I didn’t have another one in me,” said director Paul Greengrass after making 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, and his star Matt Damon, the face of the Bourne… Continue reading Jason Bourne

The Man Who Knew Infinity Matthew Brown (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’] Unless you are a certified math geek, you are unfamiliar with the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Ramanujan was perhaps India’s greatest mathematical genius. Though belonging to the Brahmin caste, he was quite poor growing up,… Continue reading The Man Who Knew Infinity

[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 Free State of Jones Gary Ross (2016) 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] Newton Knight is a little-known but controversial figure in the history of the American Civil War: A Southerner opposed to slavery who led a guerilla army in Mississippi after deserting… Continue reading Free State of Jones

The Lobster Yorgos Lanthimos (2015) [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’] Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, best known in the U.S. for his movie Dogtooth, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and which also won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2009,… Continue reading The Lobster

Maggie’s Plan Rebecca Miller (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’] Most romantic comedies follow a pretty simple pattern: Boy meets girl, and usually in an awkward way. They tend to have contrasting personalities, conforming to the popular but completely unsupported notion that “opposites attract.” Boy’s and girl’s friends… Continue reading Maggie’s Plan

[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 LOVE & FRIENDSHIP 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Lady Susan is a very early epistolary novel by the 18-year-old Jane Austen, one that she never submitted for publication in her lifetime. It was finally published in 1870, but has never been more than… Continue reading Love & Friendship

The Nice Guys Shane Black (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’] In contrast with this week’s major holiday weekend openings of the uninspired new X-Men movie and the totally unnecessary sequel to Alice in Wonderland, both of which have underwhelmed critics and audiences alike, you might want to… Continue reading “The Nice Guys”

  [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’] Ruud Rating Money Monster Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] Jodie Foster last directed a film five years ago, when she tried to save buddy Mel Gibson’s sagging career with the ill-conceived and poorly received The Beaver in 2011. Prior to that, she hadn’t directed any… Continue reading “Money Monster” Review

[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’] Ruud Rating Eye in the Sky Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Would you kill a completely innocent nine-year old girl if you knew that killing her would save the lives of perhaps eighty men, women and children who are the targets of terrorist suicide bombers?… Continue reading Review of Gavin Hood’s “Eye in the Sky”