Sunday 10 January 2016

mamamedia predicts :: The 2016 Golden Globe Awards

EXPERT PREDICTION TIME!


BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

mama's pick :: I'm backing Carol. Cate Blanchett has the Midas touch. (Get it? Midas? Gold? Golden Globes? ZING.

...I'll show myself out.)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

Cate Blanchett - Carol
Brie Larson - Room
Rooney Mara - Carol
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl

mama's pick :: If it's not going to be Blanchett, then I'd say it'll be Vikander.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
Will Smith - Concussion

mama's pick :: Hmm. I think Eddie will take it out. Back to back Globes - go Redmayne!

BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

The Big Short
Joy
The Martian
Spy
Trainwreck

mama's pick :: Well, I had no idea that Spy had been nominated...so there you go. But I'm backing Trainwreck. I really don't care for movies, but I LOVE me some Schumer.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
Melissa McCarthy - Spy
Amy Schumer - Trainwreck
Maggie Smith - The Lady in the Van
Lily Tomlin - Grandma

mama's pick :: Like I said, LOVE ME SOME SCHUMER, but I don't know if the HFPA will write off Trainwreck as Amy just "playing herself" so I'm picking J.Law. Girl is on fire. Hunger Games pun totally intended.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Christian Bale - The Big Short
Steve Carell - The Big Short
Matt Damon - The Martian
Al Pacino - Danny Collins
Mark Ruffalo - Infinitely Polar Bear

mama's pick :: Oh my God, Infinitely Polar Bear might be the greatest movie title I've heard in a long time. OK, so I don't think he'll win, but I can't not use this...


BEST MOTION PICTURE - ANIMATED

Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun The Sheep Movie

mama's pick :: I'm picking Inside Out - which left my mother TRAUMATISED, by the way - but my Liv would most definitely be backing Shaun The Sheep. She loves that woolly bastard.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Jane Fonda - Youth
Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
Helen Mirren - Trumbo
Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

mama's pick :: Some big names in this category, and TBH, I have no idea who's winning this one. So...Helen!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon - 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone - Creed

mama's pick :: Oh Idris. Sigh.

...Sorry, where was I? I got lost in his dreamy, dreamy eyes...much like the Duchess of Cambridge here...

"One must try not to get too flustered...but HOLY SHIT YOU ARE HOT AS BALLS."

BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

Empire
Game of Thrones
Mr. Robot
Narcos
Outlander

mama's pick :: Hmm. Empire.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

Caitriona Balfe - Outlander
Viola Davis - How To Get Away With Murder
Eva Green - Penny Dreadful
Taraji P. Henson - Empire
Robin Wright - House of Cards

mama's pick :: I think Taraji has this one...although if Viola wins and gives another kickass speech like she did at the Emmys, I will support this.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Rami Malek - Mr. Robot
Wagner Moura - Narcos
Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber - Ray Donovan

mama's pick :: You've gotta back the Hamm, since it's his last rodeo as Don Draper. TANGENT TIME: Ray Donovan's nom reminds me of the one and only time I've every watched the show...





BEST TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Casual
Mozart in the Jungle
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep

mama's pick :: BROOKLYN NINE-NINE WAS ROBBBBED.

Ahem. Transparent.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Jamie Lee Curtis - Scream Queens
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep
Gina Rodriguez - Jane the Virgin
Lily Tomlin - Grace and Frankie

mama's pick :: Well Gina won last year...but Jamie Lee was pretty great in Scream Queens...although I don't know if that was particularly well-received...and everyone loves Veep...so I'll say Julia!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Aziz Ansari - Master of None
Gael Garcia Bernal - Mozart in the Jungle
Rob Lowe - The Grinder
Patrick Stewart - Blunt Talk
Jeffrey Tambor - Transparent

mama's pick :: I think Jeffrey Tambor will win, but how can you not get behind the most adorable lobster ever?!


BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Uzo Aduba - Orange is the New Black
Joanne Froggatt - Downton Abbey
Regina King - American Crime
Judith Light - Transparent
Maura Tierney - The Affair

mama's pick :: Crazy Eyes for the win!


BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION 

Alan Cumming - The Good Wife
Damian Lewis - Wolf Hall
Ben Mendelsohn - Bloodline
Tobias Menzies - Outlander
Christian Slater - Mr. Robot

mama's pick :: I've gotta support the homegrown boy Ben Mendelsohn!

Hey Aussies! The 73rd Golden Globe Awards are being telecast live on FOX8 from 11:00AEDST Monday morning. Don't worry if you miss it - it's being replayed on FOX8 from 7:30pm Monday night.

Friday 1 January 2016

Earworm.

Y'know what really grinds my gears?
 
You used to call me on my cellphone...

Apparently, my fluffy dickhead of a cat thinks my topknot is a chew toy.

Late night when you need my love...

These coconut cookies are good but DAMN are they getting stuck in my teeth. Speaking of teeth, they're annoying me too. Y u hurt so much, wisdom teeth?

I know when that hotline bling...

Government websites are ridiculously convoluted. Why does one tab lead me to ten more tabs?!?

That can only mean one thing...

Ants are teensy little assholes hell bent on driving me crazy.

Ever since I left the city you...

Oh yeah and HOTLINE BLING HAS BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR A WEEK NOW.


You win this round Aubrey Graham.

Now excuse me while I go and stick a pencil in my eye.

Shout out to the good folks over at Vulture for their round-up of the best Hotline Bling gifs - if you're going to be stuck with it swirling around in your head all day errrday, the least you can do is laugh at a bunch of sweet Drake choreography.