Sideways

I have to tell you, if you have ever taken or like taking wine tasting tours, you need to see this movie. There are many fun moments that we can all relate to during the story, that the actors do an... Full review

The movie is about 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than it should have been. The story is very slow in developing. Throughout the whole movie you sit there thinking that something exciting will develop... but nothing does and you are... Full review

This movie sucked. Only time i laughed was when they were on the golf course, and that really wasnt even that funny.. I thought i was watching a porn for a bit.. Glad that eveyone thought that was funny.. Glad that... Full review

Not sure what that was or who it was directed at, white middle aged divorced people having middle age crises? One Asian woman in the movie gets completely dicked over and we are not even supposed to feel bad for her... Full review

don't see this movie unless you are disappointed with where you've ended up in life and want to watch someone more pathetic than yourself so that you will feel better about what you consider your own pathetic excuse for existance. The... Full review

OK people, after hearing all the critical acclaim that SIDEWAYS received I had to go see. What a BOMB!!! Imagine Swingers hitting a middle age crisis... Full review

This movie focuses on the lead character's depressing life and inability to move on after divorce. The opening scene portrays a man so depressed he cannot get himself out of bed and to a birthday party until the party is almost... Full review

Two immature alcoholics take a drive through wine country, California. The theatre had three other people which could have held several hundred ... the ones that stayed home were smart. No story, brought to us by the same morose director of... Full review

What's the excitement here? this is a movie about 2 losers, careening about like a couple of college kids on spring break. Give me a break on the wine lore--even that was fluff and inconsequential. The ending is in sight with... Full review

This movie is alcholism disguised as comedy. Miles isn't a wine connosieur, he's an alcoholic and Giamatti takes advantage of that for laughs. This is a terrible film that takes advantage of its audience and of a sad disease.... Full review

on several big-budgeters, including "Transformers," Gluck shows a good feel for small-scale comic drama.....A more readily lovable loser than Paul Giamatti's grouchy-but-grows-on-you Miles, struggling scriptwriter Michio (Fumiyo Kohinata) returns to Los Angeles for the wedding of his old friend, Daisuke (Katsuhisa Namase).....A lively score by Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro stands out in a pro tech package..... ... Full Review

Sideways" is the sweetest, funniest, most humane movie I've seen all year.....Early on in the wonderful new movie "Sideways," the hero, Miles ( Paul Giamatti ), does the Times crossword puzzle....Sideways " isn't just a road picture about two hilarious losers, it's a great comedy about men and women.....In the piercingly funny buddy film "Sideways," it is also the default position for inebriation........Sharp details are not enough in themselves to make a movie great;.... ... Full Review

Sideways" is your typical indie darling....My problem with the actors in this film is....Without Giamatti in "Sideways," I would have trouble imagining this film would be entertaining at all.....It isn´t that I don´t find "Sideways" to be a bad picture....I´ll give director Alexander Payne and the other filmmakers that worked on the project credit for making a solid movie.... ... Full Review

understated scenes with Giamatti....quirky projects....According to the analytical cognoscenti, 2005's Sideways was a gut-busting comedy classic.....a simple film....a remarkable actress.... ... Full Review

All of this is held together by a great jazz score that manages to be subtle yet strongly suggestive of mood. The multi-layered performances from both Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church are so enjoyable, we feel as though we understand them, root for them, ache for them and laugh at the very human traits they both display. ... Full Review

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne will direct his fifth feature, an adaptation of the family drama novel "The Descendants," Hollywood media reported Tuesday. ... Full Article

Why does Paul Giamatti's lovable, loserly Miles angrily shout this in the film Sideways? Because he's a self-styled purist, rebuking the decades-long Merlot boom in the United States. ... Full Article

And the secret to its appeal is not Ray, even though he is ably played by Thomas Jane. It's not even the sex, because only a little is shown, and Ray's greatest gift is left to the imagination. ... Full Article

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I've been putting off writing about how the economy is affecting wine, and I'm gonna continue to do so. After all, there's plenty of fun news out there in the wine world. ... Full Article

Los Angeles HERE'S the pitch: Two guys, old college buddies. One's a has-been TV actor, the other a never-been writer. The actor is about to get married, and the writer loves wine, so before the wedding they drive up the... ... Full Article