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Bruce Jenner comes out as a transgender Republican in epic 20/20 interview

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Bruce Jenner’s two-hour 20/20 special with Diane Sawyer aired last night, and I think we have to give it to Bruce: that was a really great, informative, emotional and powerful way to announce to the world that he is a transgender woman. Before we get started, GLAAD issued a helpful tip sheet on gender pronouns and names, which we will be following for the time being…

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Gigi Hadid Knows Her Way Around a Bikini

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Gigi Hadid just turned 20 and her birthday gift was letting us see her in a bikini. Damn. That’s all there is to say. She wore this for a photo shoot. Whichever director thought of this shoot for his personal spank bank deserves an award. Bravo, my friend, bravo. *golf clap* Even Michael Bay tipped his hat and said ‘well-played’.

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‘Ex Machina’ Review

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Ex Machina is memorable and downright challenging, full of sharp performances that blur the lines between humanity and programming.In the near-future, young computer coder Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), working for the world’s most powerful tech company, is selected to assist in an unorthodox experiment. Caleb travels far from his office job to an isolated homestead, and research facility, of the company’s reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac) for a weeklong visit. However, when the eager employee actually meets his employer, Caleb finds that, in his isolation, Nathan has become unhinged and obsessive – rarely seen without an alcoholic drink in hand.Nevertheless, when Nathan reveals to…

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CinemaCon 2015 Recap – The Best Studio Footage We Saw This Year

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What looks good this year? This past week I attended the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, an annual convention for movie theater owners + distributors. Every year Hollywood flies in actors and hosts elaborate presentations inside of The Colosseum at Caesars Palace to show off their movies over the next year. I’ve decided to recap all of the panels from all of the studios (Paramount, WB, Fox, Universal, Sony) and discuss some of …

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Recap of Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, and Andreas Marschall on Without Your Head Horror Radio

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by Vic Schiavone Hosts Nasty Neal and Annabelle Lecter welcomed Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, and Andreas Marschall, the three directors of the German horror anthology film “German Angst”, to Without Your Head Horror Radio for an over-an-hour-long discussion going over all aspects of this amazing and controversial new film. Highlights included the following: • WYH: How did the three of you get together to start the movie? When did the idea of “German Angst” come about? AM: “It was my idea when I was touring with my last film “Masks”. I was asked what Jörg Buttgereit is doing, because there were a lot of these anthology movies, like “The Theater Bizarre”, around at this time…

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Remastered "X-Files" Quietly Hits Netflix

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Netflix has quietly made the first thirteen episodes of the first season of “The X-Files” available in widescreen and high-definition for the first time in the United States. As previously reported, all the live-action scenes have been fully remastered from the original negatives, but the original visual effects shots have only been upscaled so lack the quality of the rest of the shots…

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The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies releases a first TV spot: watch now

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The first TV spot has arrived online for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, and it places an emphasis firmly on the high-stakes scenario of the final showdown between our heroes and Sauron. Having spent the last two films on the fringes of the narrative, Middle-earth’s big bad is back at the heart of things this time out, sending hordes of orcs to the Lonely Mountain in a concerted grab for power. If they are going to resist him, the forces of men, dwarves and elves will have to work together, but there are…