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'Sideways' movie, with Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church 'Sideways' movie review: California winery tour follows conventional road to male maturity With the 1999 Matthew Broderick-Reese Witherspoon vehicle Election, Alexander Payne displayed a flair for satirical comedy the likes of which would have turned Billy Wilder greener (with envy) than the Sideways poster found further below in this commentary. With the 2002 Jack Nicholson star vehicle About Schmidt, Payne demonstrated that his comedic flair could go the way of Wilder's in fluff like Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon: artificial, cutesy, bland.* In Sideways, Payne opted for the safer About Schmidt route – which may explain the film's enormous popularity with critics and audiences alike. For my part, I found his adaptation (with Jim Taylor) of Rex Pickett's novel to be an overlong, moralistic, and thoroughly unconvincing effort. (Warning: This Sideways movie review contains spoilers.

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS: Los Angeles" episode 7 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Leipei," and it sounds like things will very drama-filled and wickedly intense as a deadly drone attacked is scheduled to take place, prompting the NCIS La crew to rush against the clock to stop it, and more! In the new, 7th episode press release: When a man is murdered by a drone, the team is going to discover he was connected to a terrorist group that is planning another local attack. Press release number 2: When a man is murdered by a small drone, the team will discover his connection to a terrorist group that is planning another local attack. With time running short, Nell is going to have to use her drone expertise to try to divert a disaster in Long Beach. Guest stars feature: Alex Carter (Frank...