Virginia Madsen

‘Sideways’ movie: Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church enjoy days of wine and women. ‘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…

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The Astronaut Farmer with Billy Bob Thornton. The Astronaut Farmer is considerably more than the story of a guy who builds a rocket. In truth, writer/director Michael Polish and co-screenwriter Mark Polish have concocted a tale about devotion; one in…

The sacred cows of the Hollywood firmament – or Hollywood barn, if you want to be really literal – will receive hosannas from certain quarters no matter how mediocre their output. Some believe that to say something negative about the…

Award-winning movies: Million Dollar Baby with Hilary Swank. A critical favorite and one of the top award-winning movies this season, Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby, which Paul Haggis adapted from a short story by F.X. Toole (a.k.a.…

Wine Country road movie Sideways with Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. Life lessons, picturesque views of Southern California’s Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country, and the (sexist?) portrayal of adult men as overgrown babies are all found in Alexander Payne’s…