Pushing Linksies

• The Reveal "The Gotham City liveability index" through Batman projects. Hee
• Vulture interviews Lee Pace about Pushing Daisies for its 15th anniversary. Of all the shows being rebooted, shows that didn't get long runs should be at the top of the lists
• AV Club gets righteously snarky about theater chains upping their prices for The Batman. Cosign
• Letterboxd curating a fat girl cinematic canon
• Dread Central "a timeline of women monsters in film"

More after the jump including Austin Stowell, Paul Dano, M Night Shyamalan casting news, and Disney's disgusting anti-gay politics...

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Beauty Break: Trans Day of Visibility

by Nathaniel R

Jamie Clayton of Sense8 fame photographed by Austin Hargrave

Since today is Trans Day of Visibility let's gaze at some trans actors. There's been an explosion of visibility for the community in the past ten years or so in showbusiness both in front of cameras and behind them. When we were growing up there were only a few out gay and lesbian celebrities but virtually no trans celebrities and now there are hundreds of queer actors working including trans actors. Even a couple of househould names. Let's be grateful for progress even in a world filled with many injustices and still rampant discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community.

After the jump a dozen semi-randomly selected trans actors (so don't say we missed someone. We're happy to report that there are many we missed but we're on a deadline)... 

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Linkwire

Awards Daily boldish concept art for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire.
Gold Derby wonders if Modern Family can set a record at the upcoming Emmy nominations in Supporting Actor.
Boy Culture discovers a horrific snippet from People magazine for Mothers Day. Poor Catherine Deneuve; she doesn't deserve this.
AV Club reviews The Almighty Thor, a old TV film.
Movie|Line checks in with Sam Caflin who is getting the "new star" treatment/ It seems to me like he's taking the Orlando Bloom role for the Pirates franchise (I don't mean that literally). So who knows about that stardom. People can be cruel with the "prettyboy" stars.

I'm Not Obsessed checks out Juliette Lewis in a rockin' trip to... the deli?
France Today looks at five legendary Gallic movie couples.
Hitfix interviews the awesomely multi-tasking Eddie Izzard on The United States of Tara and more.