[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 ANT-MAN Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] In issue #34 of Showcase magazine in 1961, a new comic-book super-hero was introduced—a brilliant scientist who had found a way to shrink himself down to the size of an ant, while still retaining the strength and power… Continue reading Movie Review: Ant-Man Peyton Reed
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Movie Review: Inside Out by Pete Docter
[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 INSIDE OUT Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Back in the fifth century, a Latin writer named Prudentius composed a poem called Psychomachia (the “Battle of the Spirits”), in which he personified virtues and vices that might coexist within the human mind and portrayed… Continue reading Movie Review: Inside Out by Pete Docter
Movie Review: Spy by Paul Feig
[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 SPY 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] If you’ve been out of the country for a month as I have, you may not have seen Spy yet, and if that’s the case, let me take this opportunity to recommend it. With Jurassic Park and… Continue reading Movie Review: Spy by Paul Feig
Movie Review: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Vinterberg
[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 Far from the Madding Crowd Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] If you’re looking for an antidote to the nonstop action or violence so typical of the summer blockbuster as we know it, you may be in the market for the newest film version… Continue reading Movie Review: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Vinterberg
Movie Review: Mad Max – Fury Road by George 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 Mad Max – Fury Road 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] Thirty years ago Australian director George Miller made Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the third in his series of post-apocalyptic road-warrior movies, and it appeared to be the last—he went on to make innocuous… Continue reading Movie Review: Mad Max – Fury Road by George Miller
Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron by Joss Wheden
[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 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] Summer is icumin in, loude sing “kerblam”! If it is May, it must be time for groups of comic book characters to save the world from certain destruction, and to do it while… Continue reading Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron by Joss Wheden
Movie Review: The Sound of Music by Robert Wise
[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 The Sound Of Music Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Roger Ebert claimed never to have seen The Sound of Music. To my knowledge he never expanded on that statement, but it might be inferred that the great critic was suggesting he had no… Continue reading Movie Review: The Sound of Music by Robert Wise
Movie Review: Woman in Gold by Simon Curtis
[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 Woman In Gold Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] If you’ve been to Vienna, you almost certainly have visited the Belvedere Schloss, the great Hapsburg estate now used mainly as an art museum—and you have therefore had a chance to view the Gustav Klimt masterpiece,… Continue reading Movie Review: Woman in Gold by Simon Curtis
The Top Ten Baseball Movies EVAH!
There have been dozens of movies about baseball, from the pure comedy of Walter Mathau’s iconic turn in The Bad News Bears, to the singing and dancing double play combination of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Take Me Out to the Ballgame, to Tommy Lee Jones’ brilliant portrayal of a sociopathic star in Cobb.… Continue reading The Top Ten Baseball Movies EVAH!
Movie Review: Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev
[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 Leviathan 4 SHAKESPEARES [/av_image] In the Bible, Leviathan is the name of the chaos monster defeated by Yahweh in pre-Biblical Hebrew mythology. He appears in isolated places in some of the Psalms that probably predate the composition of Genesis, and is… Continue reading Movie Review: Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev