[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 Star Wars: the Force Awakens 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Tell me if you’ve heard this one: a small droid, in which is concealed information crucial to the success of the resistance, is marooned on a desert planet, where the droid joins forces… Continue reading Movie Review: Star Wars: the Force Awakens by J.J. Abrams

So, in the past week the nominees for both this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globes were announced. As always happens on these occasions, there were a few surprises and a few perceived “snubs” among the nominees. Perhaps the biggest surprise this time was the passel of nominations for Trumbo, the biopic… Continue reading SAGs and Snubs: The Case of Trumbo vs. Spotlight

[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 MOCKINGJAY Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] As I complained vehemently after the release of Mockingjay, Part 1 last year, there was absolutely no narrative, aesthetic, or even reasonable excuse for splitting the final book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy into two films. The… Continue reading Movie Review: Mockingly, Part 2 by Francis Lawrence

[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