* Best Feature Film – Animated - presented to 'Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio'.
* Best Documentary - presented to 'Good Night Oppy'.
* Best Audio – Theatrical - presented to 'The Batman'.
* Best Use of VR - awarded to 'Gorilla Trek'.
* Best Original Song - awarded to 'Top Gun: Maverick' for “Hold My Hand”.
* Best Use of High Dynamic Range – Feature Film - presented to 'Lightyear'.
* Best Musical Scene or Sequence - presented to 'Elvis'.
* Best Scene or Sequence in a Feature Film - presented to 'Top Gun: Maverick'.
In addition, the following other awards were presented :-
* Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for Creative Excellence in Visual Effects - to Weta FX.
* Innovation in Technology Award - to Microsoft.
* Innovation in Post Production Tools - to Adobe.
* Innovation in Technology Award - to Microsoft.
* Innovation in Post Production Tools - to Adobe.
* Voices For The Earth Award presented to James Cameron and Jon Landau for 'Avatar: The Way of Water'.
* Gene Kelly Visionary Award presented to Damien Chazelle for 'Babylon'.
* Harold Lloyd Award presented to Baz Luhrmann for 'Elvis'.
* Harold Lloyd Award presented to Baz Luhrmann for 'Elvis'.
For the official word on the 13th Lumiere Awards plus the TV episodic winners, you can visit the official website at : https://theadvancedimagingsociety.com/
'ANT-MAN AND THE WASP : QUANTUMANIA' (Rated M) - this American superhero film is based on the Marvel Comics characters of Scott Lang (aka Ant-Man) and Hope van Dyne (aka The Wasp) and is the direct sequel to 2015's 'Ant-Man' and 2018's 'Ant-Man and The Wasp' and is the 31st entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the lunching film of Phase Five of the MCU. As with the two previous films, Peyton Reed returns as Director for this third instalment. The film saw its Premier screening in Los Angeles on the 6th February, before its worldwide release this week, having gained positive Reviews from critics. 
Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and Hope van Dyne, aka The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), along with Hope's parents, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Lang's now 18 year-old daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton), find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm that pushes the limits of what they thought possible and pits them against Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors). Also starring David Dastmalchian, Bill Murray, Randall Park and Corey Stoll.
'WOMEN TALKING' (Rated M) - is an American drama film written for the screen and Directed by Sarah Polley, the Canadian Director, Writer, Producer and former Actress, and is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. Polley's previous feature film credits take in her debut in 2006 with 'Away from Her', then 'Take This Waltz' in 2011 and the documentary 'Stories We Tell' in 2012. This film had its World Premiere screening at the Telluride Film Festival in early September last year and was released in the US in late January, having generated largely positive Critical Reviews and so far taking US$4.1M at the Box Office. Here then, and inspired by real-life events that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia, the women of this religious colony reveal a shocking secret about the colony's men. For years between 2005 and 2009, the men have occasionally drugged the women and then raped them at night, as many as one hundred young girls and women. The truth comes out and the women talk about their new situation and to decide on a course of action which centres on three alternatives - stay and do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. The film stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy and Ben Whishaw.
'CLOSE' (Rated M) - is a Belgium, Netherlands and France Co-Produced coming of age drama film Co-Written and Directed by Lukas Dhont in only his second feature film making outing following 2018's 'Girl' which won the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This film saw its World Premiere showcasing in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in late May last year where it was later awarded the Grand Prix. It also played in the Official Competition at the 2022 Sydney Film Festival, where it also won the Sydney Film Prize. Here, a pair of thirteen year olds Leo (Eden Dembrine) and Remi (Gustav De Waele) spend the long summer holidays in innocent intimacy, but come the school year, their seemingly unbreakable bond is thrown into disarray as their relationship is noticed and commented on by their contemporaries. In reaction to their sometimes insulting or intrusive comments, Leo attempts to distance himself from Remi. The film was released in France on 1st November, and in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on 2nd November and in the US at the end of January having garnered universal critical acclaim, so far winning thirty awards and another forty-five nominations, and having taken US$3.8M at the Box Office. Also starring Lea Drucker.
'WINNIE-THE-POOH : BLOOD AND HONEY' (Rated R18+) - this British independent fantasy slasher film is Written, Co-Produced and Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield in his film making debut, and is a horror retelling based on the beloved children's books by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard 'Winnie-the-Pooh'. The film follows Pooh (Craig David Dowsett) and Piglet (Chris Cordell) who have now become feral and bloodthirsty murderers and embark on a killing spree as they terrorise a group of young university women and a now adult Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood five years later after leaving for college. The film saw its World Premier in Mexico at the end of January and goes on release in its native UK and other worldwide territories from this week too. A sequel is already in development, and the film has so far grossed US$550K.
'WE ARE STILL HERE' (Rated M) - is an Australian-New Zealand anthology film that was created as a response to the 250th anniversary of the second voyage of James Cook to Australia in 1772. The project consists of ten linked short films by each of ten Indigenous Australian and Maori filmmakers about the impact of settler colonialism on the region's indigenous cultures. The films were Written and Directed by Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis and Chantelle Burgoyne, and span a range of approaches including historical war drama, futuristic speculative fiction and animation. The film saw its World Premier as the Opening Film of the 2022 Sydney Film Festival, and had its North American Premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival in mid-September last year.
'KNOWING THE SCORE' (Rated PG) - this Australian biographical documentary is Written and Directed by Janine Hosking and is Executive Produced by Cate Blanchett (drawing parallels with her award winning role in 'Tar' recently) and tells the story of Australian symphony conductor Simone Young, an inspiring, brilliant woman who made it to the top in a man’s world wielding her wit, determination, sense of humour and a baton. New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Simone Young has conquered them all in the most male dominated of professions, conducting opera and classical music, and she now is Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The girl from Manly, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, the film captures the career of an extraordinary conductor, its challenges and triumphs, past, present and into the future.
'MY FAIRY TROUBLEMAKER' (Rated G) - is an animated family adventure comedy film from Luxembourg and Germany and is Directed by Carline Origer in her feature film making debut, although she has previously Directed fifty-two episodes of the kids animated TV series 'Polo' in 2014. Violetta (Jella Haase) is in training to become a tooth fairy, but instead of conjuring up fun toys like a real tooth fairy all she manages is...violets. Now the annual exam is coming up, and only the fairies that pass it receive the gem that transports them to and from the human world in order to collect the milk teeth and leave a magic toy. Of course, Violetta fails the exam. However, not be left out she steals another fairy’s mission and gem and smuggles herself into the human world. There she ends up in Maxie‘s (Lisa-Marie Koroll) new room in her new city dwelling that she has just recently moved into from the countryside with her Mum. The film was released in Germany in mid-October last year and has so far grossed US$1.6M.
This week there is plenty of new cinematic content to coax you out to your local big screen Odeon, and we kick start with the 31st film in the MCU and the launch of Phase Five that sees our two protagonists enter the Quantum Realm with other family members where they interact with strange creatures, witness things they never thought possible and face off against a most notable and powerful villain. This is followed by a true story of how the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith; and next up is a film about an intense friendship between two thirteen year-old boys that suddenly gets disrupted, and the fall out that occurs as a consequence. Then we turn to a horror film based on a beloved children's character and how now feral and bloodthirsty, Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet terrorise Christopher Robin and a group of young women at a remote house; before turning to a film spanning a thousand years and telling eight stories of grief and resilience as experienced by the indigenous peoples of New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific Islands. Next is an Australian classical music documentary that reveals two key themes - the long struggle for gender parity in the high art of classical music and the heart breaking struggle for artists to be valued in times of crisis, or sometimes even at all, before closing out the week with an animated feature about a cheeky fairy who gets lost in the human world, and so to find her way back to the fairy world, she teams up with the human girl and discovers her true destiny in the process.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the seven 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 week ahead.
With seven new release movie offerings 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 at your local Odeon in the coming week.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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