Sideways joins American Beauty as a quiet, bleak comedy that came out of nowhere and surprised a lot of my friends with its quality. Said friends subsequently recommended it quite highly, only for me to discover that, while it is amiable enough (and certainly very funny in places), it certainly isn?t the sort of film which watching on video would reduce one iota (it might improve it, given that yo ...

First things first: I loved this movie, and came out with a really big grin on, just as I did coming out of Rushmore and The Royal Tenembaums, the directors previous two films, with which this film shares the same kind of deadpan, laconic humour, in which very little is laugh out loud funny, but there's an almost constant level of quiet bemusement. I found The Life Aquatic to be superior to both t ...