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69th Golden Globe Awards 2012 – Winners

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With the event taking place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday evening (January 15), Ricky Gervais tended to hosting duties while “The Descendants” was named as Best Drama Motion Picture and “The Artist” ended up taking home the top prize of Best Comedy or Musical Motion Picture. Here are the winners in movies and TV categories for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards…

US actor George Clooney poses with his Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for ‘The Descendants’.  EPA/PAUL BUCK

US director Steven Spielberg poses with his Golden Globe award for Best Animated Feature Film for ‘The Adventures of Tintin’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US actor Peter Dinklage poses with his Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Picture made for Television for ‘Game of Thrones’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US actress Octavia Spencer poses with her award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for ‘The Help’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US actor Morgan Freeman poses with his Cecil B. DeMille Award. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US actress Meryl Streep poses with her Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for the movie ‘The Iron Lady’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US director Martin Scorsese poses with his Golden Globe award for Best Director for a Motion Picture for ‘Hugo’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US singer Madonna poses with her Golden Globe award for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture for ‘Masterpiece’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

French composer Ludovic Bource poses with his award for Best Original Score in a Motion Picture for ‘The Artist’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US actress Laura Dern poses with her award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical for ‘Enlightened’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

British actress Kate Winslet poses with her Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in ‘Mildred Pierce’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

US actress Claire Danes poses with her Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama for ‘Homeland’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

Canadian actor Christopher Plummer poses with his award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the movie ‘Beginners’. EPA/PAUL BUCK

Angelina Jolie at Golden Globe Awards 2012

 

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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (MI 4)

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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a 2011 action spy film, and the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, and is director Brad Bird’s first live-action film. Ghost Protocol was written by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, and produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams (director of the third film) and Bryan Burk. It is the first Mission: Impossible movie to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film was released in North America on December 16, 2011. (Wikipedia)

The story of Ghost Protocol is simpler than the elaborate charades you made up as kids. Smoked out of a Russian prison, Ethan Hunt and his renegade team, have to hunt down a Russian scientist with nuclear launch codes and save the world.

Along the way are some derivative dialogues, some presences at making up subplots and but nevertheless a star who’s committed to the art of the action sequence.

But let’s be clear, the Mission: Impossible series is exactly was it’s supposed to be: a finely tuned action machine, and the latest instalment in Ghost Protocol offers cutting-edge escapism that’s almost guilt-free. Anybody expecting a Fellini film with a car chase is just being difficult for difficulty’s sake.

And when it comes to action no one does it better than Cruise. His work ethic is meticulous and anybody who’s willing to jump out of the Burj Khalifa gets my vote hands down.

 

 

 

 

 

The film thus ends up being a never-ending action ride from the windows of the world’s tallest building, to the tunnel under the world’s worst prison to the streets of Mumbai and into a parking lot apparently located in India, but which you know will not exist in the country for the next few decades.

 

 

 

From the perspective of the series as a whole, Ghost Protocol is easily the best instalment since the first one in 1996.

Your mission should you choose to accept it is 132 minutes of mind and reality bending action scenes,  beautiful women, fast cars and a turbo charged escape from the banalities of every day life.