Category: Review

Florence Foster Jenkins Stephen Frears (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’] Meryl Streep’s annual entry into the Oscar sweepstakes is perhaps the quirkiest comedy/drama of the summer, the story of a rich New York heiress who is a big supporter of the arts but who wants to be… Continue reading Florence Foster Jenkins

[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 Hell or High Water 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] David Mackenzie (2016) Apparently Taylor Sheridan’s script for Hell or High Water kicked around Hollywood for years before anybody had the sense to pick it up.  This raises the question of why somebody would… Continue reading Hell or High Water

Anthropoid Sean Ellis (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’] Reinhard Heydrich was one of the worst excuses for a human being ever to soil the long chronicle of European history. If you haven’t heard of him before, you probably should have, if only to provide you with a… Continue reading Anthropoid

[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