The winners of the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced during the live broadcast on NBC on January 15, 2012, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. While there were several surprises during the ceremony, including controversial host Ricky Gervais returning for third year in a row, some winners were completely expected. The movie awards were the most buzzed about during the evening, as several acclaimed films were nominated and honored. ‘The Descendants’ won the Best Picture Drama, beating out such favorites as ‘The Help,’ ‘Moneyball,’ ‘War Horse,’ ‘The Ides of March’ and Hugo.’ George Clooney also won for his portrayal of Matt King in ‘The Descendants,’ beating…

Dublin-born and based, Brendan Gleeson is, like many of the finest character actors, many things to many people. To some he is forevermore Professor “Mad-Eye” Moody from the “Harry Potter” films. Others will recall his standout turn opposite Mel Gibson in “Braveheart”, or the wickedly underappreciated “In Bruges”, opposite a headstrong Colin Farrell. Others still might think he looks familiar from Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture “Beowulf”. Most recently, Gleeson won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his portrayal of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in HBO’s “Into the Storm”. In real life, of course, Gleeson is all of these characters, and still so much…

Don Cheadle first garnered a lot of mainstream attention with his performance opposite Denzel Washington in “Devil In a Blue Dress”, for which he was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Best Supporting Actor prize. Since then, of course, he’s appeared in a wide variety of mainstream and independent films, earning a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for the searing ”Hotel Rwanda”, and further burnishing his sociopolitical credentials as one of the producers of the Oscar-winning “Crash”, which he was instrumental in helping get made. Heck, he was even nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004, for his narration/dramatization of the Walter Mosley novel “Fear Itself”. In his new film, writer-director John…

The new trailer and movie stills for the Sony Pictures’ “The Guard” have been released. The action-comedy stars Don Cheadle (“Hotel Rwanda”, “Oceans Thirteen”) and Brendan Gleeson (“Braveheart”, “28 Days Later”). The film will be released in theaters nationwide July 29. Here’s the official synopsis of the film: THE GUARD is a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption. Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang – one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleason) is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense…

Comingsoon.net is reporting that Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Pat Shortt, Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, and Katarina Cas have all been announced as starring in John Michael McDonagh’s “The Guard”, which has just started principal photography in the West of Ireland. The film is about a small-town cop (Gleason) who begrudgingly teams up with a straight-laced FBI agent (Cheadle) in order to uncover an international cocaine-running ring that has set up shop in his town. Despite personality differences between the two, they must set that aside when the drug runners try to take them out of the picture. No release date has been set. Stay…