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vinessa shaw

reviews ann dowd, catherine zeta-jones, channing tatum, jude law, rooney mara, steven soderbergh, vinessa shaw

SIDE EFFECTS

February 10, 2013

Steven Soderbergh’s alleged swan song takes us to a gloomy place, and spins a twisted tale around the walk away from depression.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF come out and play, ebon moss-bachrach, horror, makinov, mexican, TIFF 2012, vinessa shaw

COME OUT AND PLAY Plays TIFF 2012

September 14, 2012

Almost forty years later, the question of “who could kill a child?” is still a bone-chilling one.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, 3:10 to yuma, action, alan tudyk, ben foster, christian bale, dallas roberts, drama, dvd, gretchen mol, james mangold, kevin durand, logan lerman, luke wilson, peter fonda, russell crowe, vinessa shaw, western

3:10 TO YUMA

October 8, 2007

Even bad men love their mamas…

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Ryan McNeil
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