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The Descendants

March 2015

  • Shailene Woodley: 'Jennifer Lawrence was one of the people who gave me some great advice.'

    Shailene Woodley: I have the luxury of having been an actor since I was five

    Knife-throwing, pole dancing… the Divergent star on learning new life-skills, working on a biopic of Edward Snowden – and why she cleans her teeth with clay

November 2014

  • Incredible shrinking Matt … Damon in The Informant.

    Matt Damon downsizing with Alexander Payne

    The actor is to star in director’s long-gestating social satire about a down-on-his luck man who decides to shrink himself

January 2014

  • White Bird in a Blizzard

    White Bird in a Blizzard: Sundance 2014 – first look review

    Gregg Araki's last film was a sci-fi sex romp. Now, he sends The Descendants' Shailene Woodley into thriller territory – but can't resist dwelling on the sexual side of the plot, writes Henry Barnes

December 2013

  • Nebraska director Alexander Payne

    Film talk
    Nebraska director Alexander Payne: 'It reflects my ambivalence about my home planet' – video interview

    Watch Alexander Payne, director of About Schmidt, Election and The Descendants, talk about his new film, Nebraska

August 2013

  • Jim Rash and Nat Faxon

    Jim Rash and Nat Faxon on The Way, Way Back: 'It's a rebirth'

    Catherine Shoard: They stole the show at the Oscars when they legbombed Angelina, but the writer-directors of The Way, Way Back are serious about their comedy

May 2013

  • Will Forte and Bruce Dern in Nebraska

    Film talk
    Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Bruce Dern - Cannes 2013 video interview

    Alexander Payne's follow-up to The Descendants is a low-fi, black-and-white road-trip that premiered in competition at Cannes. The director talks to Andrew Pulver about his respect for adult dramas from the 1970s and how he wove personal experience into the script. Star Bruce Dern discusses the joys of playing a character who wasn't just trying to blow up the Super Bowl

May 2012

  • Liam Neeson in The Grey

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

  • Alexander Payne

    30 minutes with …
    Alexander Payne: 'Don't remove the lint'

February 2012

  • The Descendants

    The Descendants wins Oscar for best adapted screenplay

    The Descendants screenplay, written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash, wins 2012 Oscar for best adapted screenplay

  • Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why The Descendants should win the best picture Oscar - video

    In the penultimate video of our nine-part series leading up to the Oscars, Paul MacInnes opts for heartbreak in paradise as he argues the case for Alexander Payne's The Descendants

  • Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why The Artist should win the best picture Oscar - video

    In the first of nine films leading up to this year's Oscars, Peter Bradshaw breaks his silence to explain why The Artist deserves to win best picture

January 2012

  • George Clooney in The Descendants

    Box office analysis: UK
    The Descendants gives War Horse a run for its money

  • The Descendants

    Between the lines
    The Descendants counsels the beached male

  • THE DESCENDANTS

    The Descendants – review

  • Clooney (left) in The Descendants

    Author, author
    Who should play Matt King in The Descendants? Without hesitation I said George Clooney

  • Reel review
    The Descendants: 'Complacent - even colourless at the centre' - video review

  • Hot young movie stars: Shailene Woodley

  • The Descendants – review

  • Oscar 2012 nominations: 'They sing a bit louder than anyone else' - video

  • Oscar nominations 2012 - in pictures

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