Tag: Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne's films tend to focus on people who think more highly of themselves, or so it seems to everyone ...

2-time Academy Award winner Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) re-teams with Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, which has been tipped ...

Hollywood execs never quite figured out what to do with Kelly Preston, did they? The impossibly beautiful blonde was seldom ...

There aren't many movies this year that help to carve a path towards a better future for humanity, but somehow ...

Happy to report: Alexander Payne has still got it. I would be first to admit that, while I fell in ...

Variations on a theme running through this year's strongest five films in the Best Director category -- Gravity, American Hustle, ...

One of the more interesting questions in this year's Oscar race is wondering what the Directors branch is going to ...

It’s funny how little our view of the Oscar landscape has changed since Cannes in May. Was a time when ...

This Variety spread is pretty great, I must say. In addiction to Ben Affleck on Nicole Holofcener. Here is a ...

In 86 years of Oscar history only two African-American directors have ever been nominated for an Oscar -- John Singleton ...

Across the wide, bleak expanse of Nebraska Alexander Payne cuts two charcoal figures -- Will Forte and Bruce Dern. Nebraska ...

I have mixed feelings about stories coming out of USA Today now that our friend and their star entertainment reporter ...

(new TV spot in advance of tomorrow's premiere in NY and LA) Already standing in strong position with the critics, ...

(new TV spot in advance of tomorrow's premiere in NY and LA) Already standing in strong position with the critics, ...

Sasha's own hand-held giggle-cam videography.

Sideways is a perfect film.  The more you watch it the more of itself it reveals.  It is a story ...

(Thanks to phantom, who proposes what looks to be an airtight formula: "Clooney + Payne + Fox Searchlight = Oscar ...