In the unlikely event that you've been living under a rock these past couple of weeks, you'll probably be aware of the media frenzy, the hype, the excitement and the anticipation of this years 76th Golden Globe Awards. Held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California on Sunday 6th January and hosted by Canadian Actress Sandra Oh and American Actor, Comedian, Writer, Producer and Musician Andy Samberg, here, in case you missed all the glitz and the glamour, the winners and the grinners and the also rans, is my summary of those who took home a Globe, and those that didn't.
* Best Motion Picture - Drama : won by 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY', and beating out 'Black Panther', 'Blackkklansman', 'If Beale Street Could Talk' and 'A Star Is Born'.
* Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : won by 'GREEN BOOK', beating out 'Vice', 'Crazy Rich Asians', 'The Favourite' and 'Mary Poppins Returns'.* Best Motion Picture - Animated : won by 'SPIDER-MAN : INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE', beating out 'Incredibles 2', 'Isle of Dogs', 'Mirai' and 'Ralph Breaks the Internet'.
* Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language : won by 'ROMA' (Mexico), beating out 'Shoplifters' (Japan), 'Capernaum' (Lebanon), 'Girl' (Belgium) and 'Never Look Away' (Germany).* Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama : won by GLENN CLOSE for 'The Wife', beating out Lady Gaga for 'A Star Is Born', Nicole Kidman for 'Destroyer', Melissa McCarthy for 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' and Rosamund Pike for 'A Private War'
* Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama : won by RAMI MALEK for 'Bohemian Rhapsody', beating out Bradley Cooper for 'A Star Is Born', Willem Dafoe for 'At Eternity's Gate', Lucas Hedges for 'Boy Erased' and John David Washington for 'Blackkklansman'.
* Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : won by OLIVIA COLMAN for 'The Favourite', beating out Emily Blunt for 'Mary Poppins Returns', Elsie Fisher for 'Eighth Grade', Charlize Theron for 'Tully' and Constance Wu for 'Crazy Rich Asians'.* Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : won by CHRISTIAN BALE for 'Vice', beating out Lin-Manuel Miranda for 'Mary Poppins Returns', Viggo Mortensen for 'Green Book', Robert Redford for 'The Old Man & The Gun' and John C. Reilly for 'Stan & Ollie'.
* Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture : won by REGINA KING for 'If Beale Street Could Talk', beating out Amy Adams for 'Vice', Claire Foy for 'First Man', Emma Stone for 'The Favourite' and Rachel Weisz for 'The Favourite'.* Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture : won by MAHERSHALA ALI for 'Green Book', beating out Timothee Chalamet for 'Beautiful Boy', Adam Driver for 'Blackkklansman', Richard E. Grant for 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' and Sam Rockwell for 'Vice'.
* Best Director - Motion Picture : won by ALFONSO CUARON for 'Roma', beating out Peter Farrelly for 'Green Book', Spike Lee for 'Blackkklansman', Adam McKay for 'Vice' and Bradley Cooper for 'A Star Is Born'.
* Best Screenplay - Motion Picture : won by NICK VALLELONGA, BRIAN CURRIE and PETER FARRELLY for 'Green Book', beating out Adam McKay for 'Vice', Alfonso Cuaron for 'Roma', Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara for 'The Favourite' and Barry Jenkins for 'If Beale Street Could Talk'.
* Best Original Song - Motion Picture : won for 'Shallow' from 'A STAR IS BORN' sung by LADY GAGA, beating out 'Requien for a Private War' from 'A Private War' sung by Annie Lennox, 'Revelation' from 'Boy Erased', 'All the Stars 'form 'Black Panther' and 'Girl in the Movies' from 'Dumplin' sung by Dolly Parton.* Best Original Score - Motion Picture : won by JUSTIN HERWITZ for 'First Man', beating out Marco Beltrami for 'A Quiet Place', Alexandre Desplat for 'Isle of Dogs', Ludwig Goransson for 'Black Panther' and March Shaiman for 'Mary Poppins Returns'.
* The Cecil B. deMille Award : was printed for Lifetime Achievement to JEFF BRIDGES.
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And so turning attention back to this weeks latest release movies, of which there are five coming to your local Odeon, we kick off with the eagerly awaited and highly anticipated third instalment in this superhero franchise that first launched in 2000, with its sequel (of sorts) coming sixteen years later. Now this film brings those two previous stories together and brings our three antagonists (or perhaps protagonists) head to head for a final conclusion, which if going by this Director's track record will still leave a few surprises in store right to the very end. We then turn to a historical biographical telling of the power struggle during the mid-16th century between two cousins who each claim their right to rule over England, but the throne is only big enough for one! Next up is a horror comedy about a man believing he can commit a perfect murder, but he didn't count on his victim being perhaps smarter than he. Then we have an Australian story based on a much loved book about a young lad who takes in an orphaned pelican chick that has a profound impact on his life ultimately. We then wrap up the week with a modern day retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable, but from the perspective of a young lad . . . who would be King.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the five latest release new movies as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release and as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the week ahead.
'GLASS' (Rated M) - fans of the 'Unbreakable series' (aka the 'Eastrail 177 Trilogy' following the derailment of the fictitious Eastrail #177 train in the first instalment of this series of now three) of films which launched in 2000 with 'Unbreakable', carried on with 2016's 'Split' and now sees its apparent conclusion with 'Glass'. All three films have been Directed, Written and Co-Produced by M. Night Shyalaman. 'Unbreakable' was made for US$75M and grossed US$248M, while 'Split' was made for just US$9M and grossed US$279M with both films being a critical success too. 'Glass' had a production budget of US$20M, and is released in the US this week also. By way of a recap Samuel L. Jackson's character from 'Unbreakable', Elijah Price is a mass murderer and comic book theorist with Type 1 Brittle Bone Disease and superhuman intelligence. Bruce Willis's character also from 'Unbreakable', David Dunn, is a former college football prodigy turned security guard who possesses superhuman strength, stamina, and invulnerability as well as an extrasensory ability to see the crimes people have committed just by touching them. Dunn turned Price into the authorities after discovering the full extent of his crimes. James McAvoy from 'Split' plays Kevin Wendell Crumb, a former Philadelphia Zoo employee with 23 different personalities whose body chemistry changes with each personality, resulting in a 24th personality known as 'The Beast'.
'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' (Rated MA15+) - here we have a historical biographical film Directed by British theatre Director Josie Rourke in her feature film debut, and based on the John Guy biography 'Queen of Scots : The True Life of Mary Stuart'. The film saw it Premier screening at the American Film Institute Festival in mid-November, went on general release in the US in early November, and screens nationally in the UK from this week too. The film was made for US$25M, has so far grossed US$15M and has garnered generally favourable press. And so this film takes us back to the 1560's and Queen of France at sixteen years of age and widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland in 1561 to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall under the rule of the compelling and steadfast Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). Each young Queen beholds her first cousin in both fascination and fear. Rivals in power and in love, and female royals in very much a male dominated world, the two must decide how to play the game of marriage versus their independence. Ultimately, Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to over eighteen years of imprisonment before facing execution in 1587 for plotting to assassinate the English monarch. Also starring Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, David Tennant and Guy Pearce.
'PIERCING' (Rated MA15+) - this American horror comedy film is Directed and written for the screen by Nicholas Pesce, and is based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami. The film saw it World Premier screening at the January 2018 Sundance Film Festival and only now does it go on limited release in Australia, and on 1st February in the US. Running for a relatively conservative 81 minutes, the film has garnered generally favourable Reviews so far and has picked up a couple of awards and a few nods from around the festival circuit. And so, after kissing his wife Mona (Laia Costa) and baby goodbye under the guise of a seemingly normal business trip, Reed (Christopher Abbott) checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he's always dreamed of - to carry out the perfect murder. And so he calls an escort agency and hires a prostitute, Jackie (Mia Wasikowska) for the evening, who is to be the perfect victim. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon comes to the realisation that he might just be in over his head with the mysteriously unhinged call girl.
'STORM BOY' (Rated PG) - this South Australia produced film is Directed by Shawn Seet and is based on the 1964 novella of the same name by Colin Thiele. It is these second adaptation of the story to hit the big screen, with the first outing being released in 1976 and taking AU$2.65M off the back of a AU$320K production budget back then. Mike (played as the grown adult version by Geoffrey Rush) is now a retired successful businessman and grandfather. As a lonely young boy wandering through the fierce deserted coast of South Australia, he and his reclusive father 'Hideaway' Tom (Jai Courtney) live in the isolated sand dunes facing the Southern Ocean. In search of friendship, Mike encounters another recluse in the wilderness, Fingerbone Bill (Trevor Jamieson), an Aboriginal man estranged from his tribal people. Fingerbone names the young Mike 'Storm Boy' (played by Finn Little) and enlists the child's help in caring for an orphaned pelican chick he names Mr. Percival. The older Mike recounts to his granddaughter the story of how as a boy, he formed a very special bond with that pelican that had a lasting and profound effect on their lives. 
'THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING' (Rated PG) - this English fantasy film is Directed and written for the screen by English Comedian, Television and Radio Presenter, Writer, Actor and only second time Director Joe Cornish, following 2011's 'Attack the Block', which he also wrote and Co-Produced. Not due for release in the USA until late January and the UK in mid-February, this film tells the story of Alex Elliot (Louis Ashbourne Serkis, and the son of Andy Serkis) who is a young lad, bullied at school and really, there's nothing special about him anyway. That soon changes, however, when he stumbles across and pulls King Arthur's famous sword Excalibur from a rock on a building site (of all places). In so doing, he discovers that he is destined to form a new round table with a band of Knights, for an upcoming battle with the medieval villain and powerful enchantress Morgana le Fay (Rebecca Ferguson), who summons evil forces to rule the world and threaten the future of mankind. The wizard Merlin (Angus Imrie, and the son of Celia Imrie) helps Alex in his quest as a younger incarnation capable of transforming into an older version of the acclaimed wizard of old (Patrick Stewart).With five new release films this week to tempt you out to your local Odeon, remember to share your movie going thoughts with your other like minded cinephile friends afterwards here at Odeon Online. In the meantime, I'll see you sometime somewhere in the week ahead at your local Odeon.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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