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"The Descendants," written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings was the big winner at the 24th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award.

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Alexander Payne's "The Descendants"
was the big winner at the Florida Film Critics Circle's (FFCC) annual awards receiving the Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Shailene Woodley), and Adapted Screenplay.

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Alexander Payne’s The Descendants has just about everything you need for a male midlife-crisis movie, and more: A big plot of unspoiled family land about to be sold off to developers, sullen teenagers, a wife in a coma.

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In Payne’s vision, all of these elements were probably supposed to add up to a picture of utmost honesty. Instead, The Descendants is an ultra-polished picture in which every emotion we’re supposed to feel has been cued up well in advance.

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Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is neither the provocation nor the yowl of anguish that his last picture, Antichrist, was. For those reasons, it’s less effective and also far less of a workout

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Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille might have been able to successfully redo their own movies, but more recent auto-remakes, especially ones that find directors cranking out a U.S. version of their own foreign-language hit, have been a motley crew.

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<p>As I’ve mentioned, I’ve never been the type to get hives over the remake announcements that seem to crop up in the trades every other day, or who feels that a bad redo can somehow denigrate its original.  Keep reading

For my interview with Chris Hemsworth , Kenneth Branagh , Tom Hiddleston , Kat Dennings , Jaimie Alexander click here.

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Jaimie Alexander ("CSI: Miami," "Bones," "Kyle XY") kicks ass as Sif, the warrior babe in "Thor."

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