What's new in Odeon's this week : Thursday 4th March 2021.

The 78th Golden Globe Awards honour the best in American television of 2020, as well as the best in film in 2020 and early 2021, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The ceremony took place on 28th February, nearly two months later than usual, because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema and on television. This was the first virtual bi-coastal ceremony, with Tina Fey Co-Hosting from the Rainbow Room in New York City, and Amy Poehler Co-Hosting from The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. This year marks the fourth occasion that Fey and Poehler have Co-Hosted the ceremony. 

The winners and nominees for the main feature film awards are as given below:-

Best Motion Picture : Drama

* Awarded to 'NOMADLAND', beating out 'The Father', 'Mank', 'Promising Young Woman' and 'The Trial of the Chicago 7'.

Best Motion Picture : Musical or Comedy

* Awarded to 'BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM', beating out 'Hamilton, 'Music', 'Palm Springs' and 'The Prom'.

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama : Actor

* Awarded to CHADWICK BOSEMAN for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', beating out Riz Ahmed for 'Sound of Metal', Anthony Hopkins for 'The Father', Gary Oldman for 'Mank' and Tahar Rahim for 'The Mauritanian'. 

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama : Actress

* Awarded to ANDRA DAY for 'The United States vs. Billie Holliday', beating out Viola Davis for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', Vanessa Kirby for 'Pieces of a Woman', Frances McDormand for 'Nomadland' and Carey Mulligan for 'Promising Young Woman'. 

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : Actor

* Awarded to SACHA BARON COHEN for 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm', beating out James Cordon for 'The Prom', Lin-Manuel Miranda for 'Hamilton', Dev Patel for 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' and Andy Samberg for 'Palm Springs'.

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : Actress

* Awarded to ROSAMUND PIKE for 'I Care a Lot', beating out Maria Bakalova for 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm', Kate Hudson for 'Music', Michelle Pfeiffer for 'French Exit' and Anya Taylor-Joy for 'Emma'.

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture : Actor

* Awarded to DANIEL KALUUYA for 'Judas and the Black Messiah', beating out Sacha Baron Cohen for 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', Jared Leto for 'The Little Things', Bill Murray for 'On the Rocks' and Leslie Odom Jnr. for 'One Night in Miami'. 

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture : Actress

* Awarded to JODIE FOSTER for 'The Mauritanian', beating out Glenn Close for 'Hillbilly Elegy', Olivia Coleman for 'The Father', Amanda Seyfried for 'Mank' and Helena Zengel for 'News of the World'.

Best Director

* Awarded to CHLOE ZHAO for 'Nomadland', beating out Emerald Fennell for 'Promising Young Woman', David Fincher for 'Mank', Regina King for 'One Night in Miami' and Aaron Sorkin for 'The Trial of the Chicago 7'. 

Best Screenplay

* Awarded to AARON SORKIN for 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', beating out Emerald Fennel for 'Promising Young Woman', Jack Fincher for 'Mank', Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton for 'The Father' and Chloe Zhao for 'Nomadland'. 

Best Original Score

* Awarded to TRENT REZNOR, ATTICUS ROSS and JON BATISTE for 'Soul', beating out Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for 'Mank', James Newton Howard for 'News of the World', Alexandre Desplat for 'The Midnight Sky' and Ludwig Goransson for 'Tenet'.

Best Animated Feature Film

* Awarded to 'SOUL', beating out 'The Croods : A New Age', 'Onwards', 'Over the Moon' and 'Wolfwalkers'.

Best Foreign Language Film

* Awarded to 'MINARI' from the USA, beating out 'Another Round' from Denmark, 'La Llorona' from Guatemala, 'The Life Ahead' from Italy and 'Two of Us' from France.

For the complete run down of all the glitz, the glamour, and the television awards too, you can visit the official website at : https://www.goldenglobes.com

This weeks three latest release new movies coming to your local Odeon, kick off with a Sci-Fi action adventure offering set in the near future but on a different planet but not unlike our own where women have been wiped out leaving only a population of men who live with the constant 'Noise' . . . until that is a female arrives on the scene and changes everything! Next up is a Swedish film in which a female voice tells the everyday stories of different people - a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality. And we wrap up this week with an animated feature from the House of the Mouse where in a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilisation, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.

Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the three latest release new movies as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release or 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 coming week.

'CHAOS WALKING' (Rated M) - is an American Sci-Fi action adventure film Directed by Doug Liman whose prior film making credits take in the likes of 'Swingers' in 1996, 'The Bourne Identity' in 2002, 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' in 2005, 'Fair Game' in 2010, 'Edge of Tomorrow' in 2014, and 'The Wall' and 'American Made' both in 2017. This film is based on the Sci-Fi trilogy 'Chaos Walking', adapting its first book, 2008's 'The Knife of Never Letting Go' by Patrick Ness. First announced in 2011, the film had undergone several rewrites with Liman later announced as the Director in 2016, with principal photography fully started and finished around 2017. Originally set for release on 1st March 2019, it was removed from schedule to accommodate the films' reshoots in April 2019 following poor audience test screenings. It saw its World Premiere in South Korea on 24th February this year and is set to be released in the US this week too. 

In Prentisstown, sometime in the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) has been brought up to believe that the Spackle released a germ that killed all the women and unleashed the 'Noise' on the remaining men. After discovering a patch of silence out in the swamp, his surrogate parents immediately tell him that he has to run, leaving him with only a map of New World, a message, and many unanswered questions. He soon discovers the source of the silence, a girl, named Viola Eade (Daisy Ridley), and so in this dangerous landscape, Viola's life is threatened and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the dark secrets of New World. Also starring Mads Mikkelsen, Demian Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas and David Oyelowo. The film cost US$100M to produce.

'ABOUT ENDLESSNESS' (Rated M) - this 2019 Swedish drama film is Directed by Roy Andersson who has been making feature films, short films and documentaries since 1967 with his feature film output taking in 'Songs from the Second Floor' in 2000, 'You, the Living' in 2007 and 2014's 'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'. The film saw its World Premier screening at the Venice International Film Festival in early September 2019 where it won the Silver Lion for Best Directing, among its total haul of four award wins and another twelve nominations. The film is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by a female narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple float over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter's shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presenting all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence. The film has garnered widespread critical acclaim.

'RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON' (Rated PG) - is an American computer animated action adventure fantasy film Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios and is Directed by Don Hall (whose previous directorial outings are 2011's 'Winnie the Pooh' and 2014's 'Big Hero 6') and Carlos Lopez Estrada (whose previous film making credits are 2018's 'Blindspotting' and 2020's 'Summertime'). Long ago, in the world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when sinister monsters known as the Druun threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, five hundred years later, those same monsters have returned and it's up to a lone warrior, Raya (voiced by Kelly Marie Tran), and her pet pill bug companion Tuk Tuk (voiced by Alan Tudyk), to track down the last dragon in order to finally stop the Druun for good. However, along her journey, she'll learn that it'll take more than dragon magic to save the world—it's going to take trust as well. Also starring the voices of Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, Daniel Dae Kim, Sandra Oh and Benedict Wong. The film is released Stateside this week too and will also be concurrently available on Disney+ with Premier Access.

With three 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-