Monday, December 6, 2004
Before You Do Anything Else, Go See Sideways...
I simply cannot begin to say enough good things about this movie. It's just not possible.
It stars my new favorite actor, Paul Giamatti (who was first brilliant as "Pig Vomit" in Howard Stern's Private Parts, and awesome last year in American Splendor) as a writer/wine snob who's hit a spell of seriously bad luck and is basically hanging on to the bottom rung of the ladder. Giamatti is perfect in this kind of role...
Those of you who like the TV show Wings will be happy to know that the guy who played Lowell the mechanic is excellent in Sideways as well. Virginia Madsen is also great in the flick. She's always been a pretty underrated babe. Don't believe me? Check out The Hot Spot, a Skinemax classic...
Sideways is basically a story about two buddies heading to the California wine country for one last week of fun before one of them gets married. It is so freaking funny, you've just got to see this thing...
The movie could've been pitched as the following:
Swingers about 15 years later and 200 miles farther north with wine instead of martinis...
A simplistic description to be sure, but anyone who knows me knows I would never toss around Swingers comparisons without reeeeeeeeeeeally meaning it...
Sideways is playing at the Rialto here in Raleigh. It's in limited release elsewhere...
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