Or maybe just call Anne Hathaway “Mother Mary,” her role in the film of the same name from acclaimed director David Lowery (“The Green Knight”). It’s the story of a queer relationship between a pop star and a fashion designer, and alongside Hathaway, it’s giving Michaela Coel (“I May Destroy You”), Hunter Schafer (“Cuckoo”), Kaia Gerber (“Bottoms”), Jessica Brown Findlay (“Downton Abbey”), Sian Clifford (“Fleabag)” and musician FKA Twigs (“Honey Boy”). Which actors do what in the story? And how is Mother Mary involved in their lives? We don’t know. But we do know that there’s original music from Charli XCX, so our excitement level for this one is breaking the gay-o-meter. A24 will drop it into theaters sometime later in 2025.
Ben Whishaw brings non-Paddington queer film to Sundance
Ben Whishaw spends his time acting in decidedly adult fare when he’s not dispensing joy in the “Paddington” series of family films. If you still haven’t seen him in Ira Sachs’ chaotic drama “Passages” then your 2025 should probably include a sit-down with it and, soon enough, the next collaboration between the actor and filmmaker. Taking its bow at the Sundance Film Festival recently was “Peter Hujar’s Day,” starring Whishaw as the famed queer photographer – who died of AIDS at age 53 in 1987 – and Rebecca Hall (“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”) as the writer Linda Rosenkrantz. The film is based on Rosenkrantz’s book of the same name and covers a single day, recreating a conversation the two had in 1974 in which Hujar talked about his life and interactions with important queer 20th-century literary and cultural figures like William S. Burroughs, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg. Call it this generation’s “My Dinner with Andre,” when it comes to your local arthouse later this year.
Meet ‘The Parenting’
It’s hard enough to meet your partner’s parents without an evil entity hovering over everything, but that’s how “The Parenting” is going to play out. The horror-comedy, from gay director Craig Johnson (“The Skeleton Twins”) and “SNL” writer Kent Sublette, stars Nik Dodani (“Murphy Brown”) and Brandon Flynn (“13 Reasons Why”) as a young gay couple who plan a weekend getaway with their parents at a country rental house. Oops, but it’s haunted, and supernatural mayhem ensues. Non-Millennial actors involved in the spooky hijinx: Brian Cox, Edie Falco, Lisa Kudrow, Dean Norris and Parker Posey. Way to line the bench with legends, team. This has more fun than fright written all over it but we queer horror nerds will be there for it all the same when it hits the streaming platform Max later this year. And we’re crossing our fingers that Parker Posey is playing a sarcastic ghost.
‘M3GAN 2.0’ is coming gays. Get into it.
When straight people don’t get why the horror film “M3GAN” is already queer canon and that the robot murder doll is a true leader for our community, we just tell them to go watch “Yellowstone” and stop bothering us. We will not even bother trying to help them understand why its sequel, “M3GAN 2.0,” is opening in June for Pride month — because of course it is — or why the hero of the franchise is, to paraphrase Wendy Williams, an icon, a legend and the moment. We just know we’re going to be at our local multiplex on opening weekend like it’s “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” combined. The creators and cast are back, more or less, and the results, while unknown at this moment, are going to be bloody good fun. Mark your calendars, queers.
Romeo San Vicente has his M3GAN drag ready to go.
