Sideways

A sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them, from the director of Election.

"...Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh. Sideways is a smart and delightful romantic comedy, yet in..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Baseball Flashes Sideways

Surprising similarities between 'Lost' and UT baseball

"...what the producers of Lost described as a flash sideways, a story format was used to show alternate lives..."

June 8, 2010 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Austin Film Festival: The Sideways Light

Home with the family, both living and passed

"...In the Texas supernatural drama The Sideways Light, the threat of life beyond the veil seems..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Over Under Sideways Down

The resurrection of DJ Jonathan Toubin

"...the maximum rock & soul-themed Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down, was packing 'em in each week at Home..."

July 27, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Beside the Point: Solid Waste: Willie Rhodes Slides Sideways

City announces SWS 'reorganization' – Rhodes to head 'Code Compliance'

"...immediately, longtime SWS Director Willie Rhodes has been kicked sideways – "Mr. William E. Rhodes will remain as the..."

June 5, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Few 'Sideways' Glances

The critical consensus at 'The Austin Chronicle' deems 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' the best movie of the year

Jan. 7, 2005 Screens Feature

Ip Man 4: The Finale

The adventures of the martial arts legend come to an end ... possibly.

"...That's how he ends up sideways with Adkins as a Marine gunnery sergeant who is..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Them That Follow

Snake-handling drama quietly eviscerates that whole "thoughts and prayers" deal

"...fold. Yet it seems she been sharing more than sideways glances with the apostate Augie (Mann), the son of..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Nebraska

Woody is a man of few words who might not be all there, but Bruce Dern is all there and that's more than good enough for us.

"...humorist whose films include The Descendants, About Schmidt, and Sideways, Alexander Payne makes observational comedies from an arch remove...."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blue Is the Warmest Color

This three-hour-long French film has been much hyped for its graphic sexual content, but it's the less explicit stuff that makes it worth a watch.

"...Color has its wobbles, but Exarchopoulos will knock you sideways...."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Side Effects

Jagged turns and sinuous style are the mark of Steven Soderbergh's taut drama, which stars the very well-cast Rooney Mara and Jude Law.

"...to seek personal solutions in pills, the narrative veers sideways into the investigation of a murder. You never really..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Descendants

George Clooney teams up with Sideways filmmaker Alexander Payne for this funny but tender story that's a little too smug for its own good.

"...what we're shown by director and co-writer Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) don't always square: The girls seem more..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Death and the Maiden

"...Polanski's version of a cinematic roller coaster: up, down, sideways, it leaves your heart pounding and your palms clammy..."

Feb. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Like It Like That

"...the part) is compelling as their beleaguered son, all sideways glances and quiet, sure movement. This is one of..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

London

"...endlessly name-drops 18th-century poetic and literary figures. As a sideways glance at the plight of London in the Nineties,..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punk Legend John Doe Presents at AFS Cinema

The L.A. to Austin transplant on acting: "I want to be sideways!"

"...me anymore. But it's a good thing to be sideways and not sure you're going to get there. If..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Tom Cruise risks life and limb in one of the best missions yet

"...a watchdog, and to make sure things don’t go sideways. Well, they do: They go sideways in Paris, they..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Louis Sachar: Top of His Class

"...inspired stalwart affection among readers aged seven to 12. Sideways Stories From Wayside School, The Boy Who Lost His..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

AFS Cinema Hosts Tribute to the "Quiet Engine" of Austin Film

A celebration of Mark Reeb

"...Don't Shine, and Austin Film Festival 2014 selection, The Sideways Light, directed by Reeb's wife, Jennifer Harlow...."

Jan. 19, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Madame Web

The Spidey-adjacent Madame Web isn't just bad, it's boring

"...movements rarely seem to match his dialogue). Things go sideways, we briefly meet baby Cassie – Cassandra for the..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wine of the Week

Try France

"...The film Sideways profiled an over-the-top love affair with the Pinot Noir..."

July 13, 2007 Food Column by Wes Marshall

They Might Be Angels

For Blue Lapis Light, dance artists Laura Cannon and Nicole Whiteside become heavenly creatures

"...site-specific choreographer Sally Jacques, Whiteside and Cannon have raced sideways across the faces of buildings, launched themselves off ledges..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Blown Sideways Through Life, Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Linklater's Hit Man Sets Its Sights on Venice

True crime flick to premiere at Venice before Toronto

"...from Alexander Payne (The Holdovers, reuniting him with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti), the directorial debut of Anna Kendrick..."

July 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Tedious sequel recycles that Golden Girls energy again

"...from the initial Book Club, Bergen’s disheveled appearance – sideways bouffant, smeared makeup, untucked blouse, cat-ate-the-canary facial expression –..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Meet Me in the Bathroom

NYC millennial music doc is as rambling as the city

"...neighborhood cool), but, like so many issues raised, a sideways glance is all the conundrum of artistic gentrification gets...."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sharp Stick

Lena Dunham's latest exploration of messy people is pretty messy itself

"...by Bernthal, who also produced). When the affair goes sideways, Sarah Jo embarks on a journey of sexual exploration,..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The 355

International crime-fighting with Jessica Chastain’s superspies

"...what they have to lose if the situation goes sideways, and the script is sodden with genre banalities like..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In the Earth

Ben Wheatley's unexpected eco-horror is sinister and hilarious

"...in lead roles feels like no accident). Even a sideways glance to that most American of genres, the slasher,..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Breaking Surface

Underwater survival thriller scales down the disaster movie but not the tension

"...that little cringe of happy recognition every time the sideways glance at a precarious rock, or the pocket of..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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