Quintin Jardine's blog

After years of promising ourselves, we watched ‘Sideways’ on DVD last night. It’s described on the jacket as ‘The funniest film of the year’, but whoever wrote that is the sort of sad bastard who gets off on other people’s misfortune. I didn’t know until afterwards that it was directed by the same guy who did the brilliant ‘About Schmidt’, but as soon as you learn that, the penny drops, and you substitute the Miles character for Schmidt. Exactly the same formula, lonely guy on a road trip, only this one has a mate. All that said, I found it a nice touching movie with what I hope was going to be a happy ending.