Sideways (2004) Review
Sideways (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two middle-aged men drive north for a week of wine tasting before one of them gets married, and both of them are worse people than the film initially lets…
Virginia Madsen was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Sideways, playing Maya, whose speech about wine and time is the emotional center of that film, after twenty years of largely genre work.
Candyman is the horror credit that lasts, and she performs a sequence with live bees.
Dune, Highlander II and The Hot Spot fill out the 1980s and 1990s, and she has described the Sideways nomination as arriving at a point when she had stopped expecting that kind of recognition.
Paul GiamattiSideways (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two middle-aged men drive north for a week of wine tasting before one of them gets married, and both of them are worse people than the film initially lets…
Kasi LemmonsBernard Rose adapts Clive Barker's story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer. Candyman is Bernard Rose's 1992 American supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's short story 'The Forbidden', depicting a graduate student…
Brad DourifSeen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matched.
Alex Hyde-WhiteReed Edward Diamond plays Leslie Harmon, a Union sailor. The actual battle changed naval warfare overnight.
Christopher WalkenThe Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror films of the 1990s and one of Christopher Walken's most committed performances. It grossed approximately sixteen million dollars in its initial theatrical release on a production budget of approximately eight…
Christopher WalkenThe Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror franchises in American cinema. The original 1995 film delivered Christopher Walken's career-defining performance as the rebel angel Gabriel.
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