Director Alexander Payne says he never could have foreseen its impact — with a Sideways hotel and themed wine tours. The movie normalized the way we talk about wine. When director Alexander ...

Sim knows the “Sideways” effect firsthand. The born-and-raised local was working in a wine bar in Solvang when the movie came out. “We used to get four or five people in the bar midweek ...

This sober couple has just recreated a drunken scene from the movie Sideways, two decades after its theatrical release. Sideways may be an old, even obscure movie to the rest of the world ...