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The Descendants 2011
After creating the Pinot Noir phenomenon and launching the schlubby career of Paul Giamatti into the stratosphere with SIDEWAYS, director/writer Alexander Payne took seven years off to pursue writing and producing projects until thankfully returning in full-form this year with his newest portrait of familial dysfunction in The Descendants. George Clooney stars as Matt King, a real estate agent in Hawaii and, more importantly, the head of a family trust who own the last bit of Kauai’s virgin land. Everyone…
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Shame 2011
When a Steve McQueen film is successful it’s hard to say that you “enjoyed” it, it makes more sense to say you were “affected” by it. And in Shame, McQueen’s second feature film and second collaboration with Michael Fassbender, it does just that by focusing on an Irish immigrant living in New York City who has a sexual addiction on the verge of self-destruction. This man is Brandon and during the day he works at a generic financial firm while…
