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 SPECTRE Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] In an interview after completing the shooting of his latest James Bond film, Spectre, Daniel Craig was quoted as saying that he would rather “slash his wrists” than play Bond again. Such comments bring to mind Sean Connery’s… Continue reading Movie Review: Spectre by Sam Mendes

[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 Steve Jobs Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] About five minutes into Danny Boyle’s new Steve Jobs film, my wife was saying, “Boy, this is a case study in narcissistic personality disorder.” In case you haven’t read a Psychology textbook lately, this is a… Continue reading Movie Review: Steve Jobs by Danny Boyle

[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 Bridge of Spies Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] In Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg transformed the war-movie genre forever with the brutally realistic scene of the Normandy invasion. In his latest historical picture, Bridge of Spies, also starring Tom Hanks, Spielberg directs a… Continue reading Movie Review: Bridge of Spies by Steven Spielberg

[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 SICARO 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Not far into Denis Villeneuve’s new film Sicario, a military officer asks Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) if she wants to see some “fireworks,” and takes her up on a wall where she can look across the border… Continue reading Movie Review: Sicario by Denis Villeneuve

[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 The Martian 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] Think Castaway meets Apollo 13, with special 3D effects from Gravity, and you will have a pretty good idea of what you’ll get if you go to see Ridley Scott’s epic new film The Martian, based… Continue reading Movie Review: The Martian by Ridley Scott

“Mother isn’t herself today.” The iconic lines, images, and incidents in Hitchcock’s classic thriller have become clichés of the modern cinema. Every slasher film from Halloween on essentially re-enacted Hitchcock’s notorious shower scene, and Norman Bates has become the prototype of the psychotic serial killer. The haunted Victorian mansion, the corpse in the cellar, and… Continue reading Movie Review: Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock

[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 Black Mass 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] In his new gangster drama Black Mass, Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) doesn’t bring anything particularly new or innovative to the American crime drama. You’ll find yourself mentally comparing it to Goodfellas and especially The Departed, and… Continue reading Movie Review: Black Mass by Scott Cooper

[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=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING No Escape 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] Not far into John Erick Dowdle’s international thriller “No Escape,” American businessman Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson) is trapped on the roof of his hotel along with his family and dozens of other refugees from a… Continue reading Movie Review: No Escape by John Erick Dowdle

[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 PHOENIX 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] If you’re in the mood to read a movie this summer, you could do a lot worse than catching Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix,” now showing in Central Arkansas after its wide U.S. release in mid-August. In German with… Continue reading Movie Review: Phoenix by Christian Petzold

[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 The End of the Tour 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Up to now, Jason Segel has been known for relatively lightweight roles in romantic comedies, like “The Five-Year Engagement” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Not surprisingly, fans of acclaimed author David Foster Wallace were… Continue reading Movie Review: The End of the Tour by James Ponsoldt