In the films categories, the winners, grinners and also rans are as highlighted below :-
* Best Motion Picture : Musical or Comedy - presented to 'THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN', beating out 'Babylon', 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', 'Glass Onion : A Knives Out Mystery' and 'Triangle of Sadness'.
* Best Performance in a Motion Picture : Drama, Actress - awarded to CATE BLANCHETT for 'Tar', beating out Olivia Colman for 'Empire of Light', Viola Davis for 'The Woman King', Ana de Armas for 'Blonde' and Michelle Williams for 'The Fabelmans'.
* Best Performance in a Motion Picture : Musical or Comedy, Actor - presented to COLIN FARRELL for 'The Banshees of Inisherin' beating out Diego Calva for 'Babylon', Daniel Craig for 'Glass Onion : A Knives Out Mystery', Adam Driver for 'White Noise' and Ralph Fiennes for 'The Menu'.
* Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture : Actor - awarded to KE HUY QUAN for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', beating out Brendan Gleeson for 'The Banshees of Inisherin', Barry Keoghan for 'The Banshees of Inisherin', Brad Pitt for 'Babylon' and Eddie Redmayne for 'The Good Nurse'.
* Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture : Actress - presented to ANGELA BASSETT for 'Black Panther : Wakanda Forever', beating out Kerry Condon for 'The Banshees of Inisherin', Jamie Lee Curtis for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', Dolly de Leon for 'Triangle of Sadness' and Carey Mulligan for 'She Said'.
* Best Director - awarded to STEVEN SPIELBERG for 'The Fabelmans', beating out James Cameron for 'Avatar : The Way of Water', Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', Baz Luhrmann for 'Elvis', and Martin McDonagh for 'The Banshees of Inisherin'.
* Best Score - presented to JUSTIN HURWITZ for 'Babylon', beating out Carter Burwell for 'The Banshees of Inisherin', Alexandre Desplat for 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio', Hildur Guonadottir for 'Women Talking' and John Williams for 'The Fabelmans'.
* Best Non-English Language Film - awarded to 'Argentina, 1985' from Argentina, beating out 'All Quiet on the Western Front' from Germany, 'Close' from Belgium, 'Decision to Leave' from South Korea and 'RRR' from India.
For all the other television category winners, and the full details on Eddie Murphy's win of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, you can go to the official website at : https://www.goldenglobes.com
'OPERATION FORTUNE : RUSE DE GUERRE' (Rated M) - this American spy action comedy film is Co-Written and Directed by Guy Ritchie whose previous film making credits take in the likes of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', 'Snatch', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Sherlock Holmes : Game of Shadows', 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.', 'Aladdin', 'The Gentlemen' and 'Wrath of Man' in 2021. It was originally slated for release at the end of January last year and then mid-March 2022. In mid-February 2022, the film was pulled from the release schedule without comment by the studio. Reports indicate the film was pulled from release, not due to the COVID-19 pandemic as before, but because it featured gangsters of Ukrainian nationality as the main antagonist's henchmen. The film's Producers thought it would be of bad taste, in light of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War sparking global outrage, for the movie to present 'Ukrainian baddies'. 
Here then, super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham, who also Produces here) and his team of top operatives recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star, Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), to help them on an undercover mission to stop billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant) from selling a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Also starring Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone and Eddie Marsan. This film is Ritchie's fifth collaboration with Jason Statham.
'M3GAN' (Rated M) - is a Sci-Fi horror film Directed by Gerard Johnstone and based on a story Co-Written by James Wan and Produced by James Wan and Jason Blum. This is only Johnstone's second feature film making outing following 2014's 'Housebound'. This film saw its World Premier screening in Los Angeles in early December before its wide release Stateside last week, has so far recovered US$48M from its US$12M production budget and has garnered largely positive critical reviews. Gemma (Allison Williams), is a roboticist working at a toy company. She uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN (Model 3 Generative Android), a lifelike dancing doll programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. After unexpectedly gaining custody of her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) when the child's parents die in a car accident, Gemma enlists the help of the M3GAN prototype (Amie Donald with Jenna Davis as the voice), a decision that has horrific consequences when the doll becomes self-aware and overprotective of Cady, leading her to become hostile towards anyone that gets in her way of 'protecting' Cady and Gemma. A sequel is apparently already planned.
'EMILY' (Rated M) - this biographical drama film is Written and Directed by the British born Australian Actress Frances O'Connor in her feature film making debut. The film saw its World Premier screening at TIFF in early September last year before its UK release in mid-October, in Australia from this week and with no firm date for a US release yet set. The film imagines Emily Bronte’s (Emma Mackey) own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel 'Wuthering Heights'. Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her own romantic catastrophe on to the page giving us a timeless tale of desire, longing and heartbreak. Also starring Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Adrian Dunbar and Gemma Jones.
'SKINAMARINK' (Rated CTC) - is a Canadian horror film Written, Directed and Edited by Kyle Edward Ball in his feature film Directorial debut. The film saw its World Premier screening at the Fantasia Film Festival in late July last year, and is set for a release in the US and here in Australia from this week. It cost CA$15K to produce which was mostly crowdfunded and filmed using borrowed equipment from the Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta. Here then, two children, four-year-old Kevin (Lucas Paul) and six-year old Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault), wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father (Ross Paul) has disappeared, along with all the windows, doors and other objects in the house. It has generated largely positive reviews, and will be released at a later date on streaming service, Shudder.
'THE AMAZING MAURICE' (Rated PG) - this computer-animated fantasy comedy film is Directed by Toby Genkel and Co-Directed by Florian Westermann, and is based on the 2001 book 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents' by Sir Terry Pratchett. The film had its World Premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival in mid-November last year and was released in the UK in mid-December having received received generally positive reviews from critics. Released here in Australia this week and in the US from 3rd February the film has so far recovered US$107K from a production budget of US$17M. The story follows Maurice (voiced by Hugh Laurie), a goofy streetwise cat, who has the perfect money-making scam. He finds a dumb-looking kid who plays a pipe and has his very own horde of rats, who are strangely literate (voiced by Rob Brydon), but when Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia (voiced by Emilia Clarke) their little con soon goes down the drain. Also starring the voice talents of David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, David Tennant and Hugh Bonneville.
This week then, we have five new release movies doing the rounds, kicking off with an elite spy who must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by a billionaire arms broker, while recruiting Hollywood's biggest movie star, to help them on their globe-trotting mission to save the world. This is followed by a horror story about a robotics engineer at a toy company who builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own. Next up we have a historical biographical drama film that imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of thirty. Next up is a microbudget Canadian horror film that sees two young children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. And closing out this weeks latest releases is an animated film about a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking rats, but when he and the rodents reach the stricken town they meet a bookworm and their little scam soon turns pear shaped.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the five latest release new films 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.
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