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, the National Society of Film Critics' Best Film of 2004 is Clint Eastwood's sentimental melo Million Dollar Baby, which Paul…

Wine country road movie Sideways with Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. Alexander Payne's Sideways, this year's awards season favorite among North American film critics, chronicles the belated coming of age of two middle-aged men stuck in an adolescent frame…

Sideways movie with Thomas Haden Church and Paul Giamatti. Alexander Payne's belated coming-of-age road movie obviously pleased the members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association; Sideways won five awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (Payne and Jim…