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	Grade: A | Genre: Comedy Summary: With the assistance of a superb cast, Payne creates an interesting look at two men clutching for their youth, bucking maturity through the crutch of alcohol and women. Sideways is a highly ambitious film of delicate complexities.

Is Sideways a sly buddy picture, a film for wine lovers or a defining character study? Actually, it's all of the above. How can all of these be accomplished on even footing in the span of a two-hour feature? Leave that to the talents of Alexander Payne. With the assistance of a superb cast, Payne creates an interesting look at two men clutching for their youth, bucking maturity through the crutch of alcohol and women. Sideways is a highly ambitious film of delicate complexities. They are constructed so carefully they could slip right past you should you misplace your attention.

The Seattle band Death Cab for Cutie is busily preparing their new album, Plans. For some strange reason, the record label has exiled them to a barn in the middle of nowhere Massachusetts to record the new album. Plans is said to have a healthy helping of depressing love songs that the Death Cab following will no doubt find comforting. Ben Gibbard wrote the album over the past two years in between touring dates and producer/guitarist, Walla, says it's his best work to date. Plans will mark Death Cab's major label debut on Atlantic, which is due out in August.

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When the principle animation for Shrek was finished, Mike Myers decided that the title character would be stronger with a Scottish accent. So he requested that he be allowed to redo all of his lines, which required months of additional work and cost about 4 million dollars. It was a gutsy move that, fortunately for Myers, paid off in the end.

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