US Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne will direct his fifth feature, an adaptation of the family drama novel "The Descendants," Hollywood media reported Tuesday. Variety said Payne would be teaming up again with Fox Searchlight for the film, with shooting with the yet unknown cast set to begin by next year in Hawaii. Payne had teamed up with the ...

"From the producers of Sideways" is how this carefully sensitive drama is billed - but I'm afraid that, though decently intentioned, it has nothing like the punch or the non-PC incision of that movie, or anything else by Alexander Payne. Richard Jenkins (a character-actor stalwart perhaps best known for the deceased undertaker patriarch in TV's Six Feet Under) plays ...