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4 days ago
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9 must-see queer movies debuting fall 2025
Check out these exciting queer movies! Sundance Institute; Lionsgate Films Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey in Plainclothes; Jennifer Lopez in Kiss of the Spider Woman. We're more than halfway through 2025, but many of the year's most anticipated movies have yet to come out. And in a year that's already gifted audiences cinematic works like Ponyboi, The Wedding Banquet, Enigma, and Heightened Scrutiny, this, of course, includes plenty of top-notch queer films. Here are the comedies, dramas, romances, and period pieces that you should be sure to check out in the second half of 2025. 'Honey Don't!' (August 22) HONEY DON'T! Starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and Chris Evans. A new comedy from Ethan Coen. Only in ... - YouTube Tricia Cooke and husband Ethan Coen are back with the second film in their "lesbian B-movie trilogy" (following 2024's Drive-Away Dolls), and Margaret Qualley is back with them. This time, Qualley plays Honey O'Donahue, a private investigator in Bakersfield, California. When she's not flirting with a cop played by Aubrey Plaza, Honey is on the case, investigating a suspicious death and a charismatic cult leader played by Chris Evans. 'Twinless' (September 5) Twinless- Watch the trailer now! In theaters September 5. Starring James Sweeney, Dylan O'Brien, Lauren Graham, Aisling ... - YouTube James Sweeney wrote, directed, and stars opposite Dylan O'Brien in this dark comedy about two young men who form a close connection after meeting in a bereavement group for people who have lost a twin. As their relationship gets more intimate, lies start to build, secrets come out, and things get twisted. And if that weren't intriguing enough, O'Brien plays his own twin. 'The Threesome' (September 5) THE THREESOME Trailer (2025) Zoey Deutch © 2025 - Vertical. - YouTube In Chad Hartigan's new romantic comedy, Jonah Hauer-King plays Connor, a lovesick young man who finally secures a date with his longtime crush, Olivia (Zoey Deutch). But Connor's plans for a romantic night out are upended when they meet a woman named Jenny (Ruby Cruz). The three have a threesome, and in a twist, both women end up pregnant. But that doesn't put a stop to the laughs, thanks to a very funny supporting cast featuring Jaboukie Young-White and Josh Segarra. 'The History of Sound' (September 12) Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor play star-crossed lovers in THE HISTORY OF SOUND, a sweeping, moving and tender romance ... - YouTube South African director Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound is an atmospheric historical romance about two men, Lionel (Paul Mescal) and David (Josh O'Connor), who meet in 1917 at the Boston Conservatory. In 1920, David comes home after being drafted to fight in World War I, and the two travel the country together collecting folk songs and rekindling their moody romance. 'Plainclothes' (September 19) In theaters September 19. Syracuse, 1997. Promising undercover police officer Lucas (Tom ... - YouTube Writer and director Carmen Emmi's debut feature film takes place in 1990s New York, where a young and handsome police officer named Lucas (Tom Blyth) is tasked with going to popular gay cruising spots and entrapping men who try to have sex with him. One day, he meets an older man, Andrew (Russell Tovey), and eventually falls in love, which changes everything. 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' (October 10) Kiss Of The Spider Woman | Official Teaser Trailer Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh star in #KissoftheSpiderWoman. - YouTube Legendary filmmaker Bill Condon (Chicago) has tackled a new film adaptation of the stage musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb about a political prisoner (Diego Luna) who is forced to share a prison cell with a queer and trans prisoner (Tonatiuh) arrested for public indecency. This throwback to the musicals of Hollywood's Golden Age features brilliant performances by its two leads, as well as Jennifer Lopez, who plays the titular spider woman. 'After the Hunt' (October 17) Not everything is supposed to make you comfortable. Watch the trailer for #AfterTheHuntMovie, directed by Luca Guadagnino, ... - YouTube Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino (Challengers) is back with another twisted tale of love and obsession. After the Hunt follows a college professor (Julia Roberts) who must make a difficult decision when one of her favorite students (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her close friend and colleague (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. 'Peter Hujar's Day' (November 7) Ira Sachs's new film, Peter Hujar's Day, stars Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in a richly cinematic rendering of a conversation ... - YouTube Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in director Ira Sachs' (Passages) tribute to the real-life friendship between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Based on recorded conversations between the creatives, this intimate film follows a day spent together in New York in 1974. 'Wicked: For Good' (November 21) The epic conclusion comes to theaters this November. Watch the #WickedForGood trailer now Pre-save 'Wicked: For Good ... - YouTube The next installment in Jon M. Chu's Wicked double feature comes out later this year, after the first film proved to be a smash hit in 2024. Cynthia Erivo returns as Elphaba and Ariana Grande returns as Glinda to finish out Chu's two-part adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical featuring queer anthems like Defying Gravity. Joining them on their journey back to Oz is Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, and the rest of the central cast from the first film. This article originally appeared on Out: 9 must-see queer movies debuting fall 2025 RELATED 2025 Oscar nominations: The biggest LGBTQ+ snubs 15 Films Every Queer Movie Lover Should See Here are my favorite queer movies I saw at Sundance 2024 Solve the daily Crossword
Malay Mail
09-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
‘The Naked Gun' & ‘Happy Gilmore 2' – keeping the tradition of 80s/90s low-brow comedy alive in 2025
AUGUST 9 — The comedies I grew up watching – as a kid in the 1980s and as a teenager in the 1990s – can feel like they come from another planet when compared to what is being sold as comedies right now. There were no sacred cows back then, and people could make fun of anyone, even in the most tasteless and low-brow manner. Try doing that in this era of political correctness, woke and cancel culture, and I'm sure some internet outrage will be coming your way. I loved the movies by the ZAZ trio (which consisted of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker) like Airplane, The Naked Gun and Top Secret, all of which can be clearly classified as low-brow or dumb comedies, but are no less funny for being so. The 90s saw the golden era of tasteless, provocative, low-brow comedies from the Farrelly brothers, who gave us gems like Dumb And Dumber, Kingpin and There's Something About Mary, and which also saw the rise of Adam Sandler as a comedy star with films like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. These are not films that most cinephiles would be proud to admit they loved, but I wouldn't have them any other way. If a movie is funny, then it is funny. It doesn't matter whether the jokes are high-brow or low-brow. All that matters is that you laugh yourself silly watching them. It's been a while since I last saw a good low-brow comedy, so it's quite a delight to find myself encountering two of these within the space of just a week, one in the comforts of home, courtesy of Netflix, and one in the great communal experience of the cinema. A YouTube screenshot of a scene from the Netflix official trailer of Happy Gilmore 2. Happy Gilmore 2 Sequels, especially those that are made for Netflix, can be a tricky proposition. Because there's no pressure to recoup the budget from ticket sales, filmmakers can sometimes take things for granted and make things on auto-pilot. I can definitely say the same for a lot of the previous Adam Sandler movies that were made for Netflix. Sometimes it even feels like making the movie was just an excuse for him to get his family and friends to holiday at a particular exotic or foreign location, which can even be felt in the slapdash and lazy writing and casual performances. But Happy Gilmore 2 is definitely not one of those movies. It's a movie that relies on a lot of the plot points (and even jokes) that made us fans of the first movie back then, because a much older Happy Gilmore here needs to start from the bottom again after a tragedy involving his wife and golf has resulted in him swearing never to play golf again. All that changes when he needs to come up with some serious money in order to realise his daughter's dreams of becoming a dancer and pay for her to study at the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet School. To do that, he needs to play golf again, and this is one of those feel-good comeback kid sports movies, but with plenty of toilet humour in between. I had a great time watching this, the jokes mostly land just fine, the dizzying number of cameos will really make you feel dizzy, but in a good way, and it's just such a fun, optimistic movie that I feel is something that we all need right now, especially considering the state of the world we're in now. The Naked Gun Considering how much I loved the nonsensical humour in the original The Naked Gun, it's quite scary to imagine how that would translate into a re-quel (a reboot cum sequel) in 2025, but the moment the movie opened with a bank heist in which the villain blasts open a safety deposit box to retrieve his target, an item labeled 'P.L.O.T. Device', I knew I was in safe comic hands. Director Akiva Schaffer (who previously did Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Stopping and plenty of The Lonely Island music videos) is quite simply the perfect candidate to revive this much beloved low-brow franchise, confidently handling the script's non-stop barrage of jokes, both verbally and visually, that it was such great fun laughing out loud in the cinema together with other people. Liam Neeson is perfect as Frank Drebin Jr. (in an inspired visual gag, almost everyone in the Police Squad here are descendants of characters from the original movie), bringing his tough guy persona from Taken to play things with such a poker face that one simply can't help but giggle (or howl with laughter) at the things that come out of his mouth like: 'Who's going to arrest me anyway? Cops? Cops don't arrest cops!' Watching Liam Neeson being dead serious and dead stupid at the same time throughout the movie, with able support from Pamela Anderson, is the main thing that will keep you glued to your seat, and will probably keep you coming back for more if this one becomes a hit, which will likely produce at least a sequel. A non-stop gag machine, not everything lands here, but there's so much being thrown at the audience that you might not even have time to think about a failed joke that you'd already be laughing at the next one. Simply wonderful.
CNET
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Your Weekend Streaming Watch List: 'Happy Gilmore 2,' 'Washington Black' and More
This week, one of the biggest movies of the summer arrives on streaming: Happy Gilmore 2 has finally dropped on Netflix. The film is one of the most anticipated comedies of the year, but it's not the only great thing to watch this weekend if you're looking for something new. Hulu's new historical drama Washington Black, starring Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Sterling K. Brown, is out now, and so is the fourth season of Acapulco on Apple TV Plus. And don't forget that part 2 of the HBO Max documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes is out on Friday, too. If you missed any of the most recent season of RuPaul's Drag Race, season 17 is also now available to stream in its entirety on Paramount Plus. These new shows and movies are just a few of the best titles that have arrived this week -- take a look at all our top picks for your weekend watch below. Read more: Best Live TV Streaming Services of 2025 Best TV shows and movies to stream this weekend Netflix Netflix Happy Gilmore 2 (July 25) After waiting almost 30 years, the Happy Gilmore sequel arrives this week. Happy Gilmore 2, written by Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy, reunites much of the cast of the original film, including Sandler, Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller and Christopher McDonald. The film features cameos from tons of pro golfers, along with Bad Bunny, who plays Happy's new caddy after Happy comes out of retirement to play again. Happy Gilmore 2 arrives on July 25. If you want, you can catch a Happy Gilmore double feature briefly on the platform; the original Happy Gilmore is leaving Netflix on Aug. 1. Netflix Hitmakers (July 24) On the new series Hitmakers, Netflix provides music fans a glimpse inside the recording industry by focusing on the songwriters who pen some of the biggest pop songs of the day. The show -- which is not a competition series -- features 12 of the industry's best songwriters and producers as they collaborate at a writing camp to come up with the best hooks possible in search of the next hit. Netflix Critical: Between Life & Death (July 23) Netflix's new documentary series Critical: Between Life & Death is like a real-life version of The Pitt, if that series were set in London. Filmed over the course of 21 days with over 40 cameras in and around the London Major Trauma System, the docuseries provides an intimate view of intense life-or-death situations as they unfold, from the perspective of the first responders and essential workers on the front lines. Hulu Hulu Washington Black (July 23) Washington Black, a new Hulu drama based on the book of the same name by Esi Edugyan, airs on July 23 with all eight episodes dropping at once. The series stars Ernest Kingsley Jr. as the titular character, Washington "Wash" Black, a young man who is forced to leave his home on a Barbados sugar plantation in the 1800s and ends up traveling the world. Sterling K. Brown co-stars and executive produces the show. Paramount Plus Paramount/MTV RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 17 (July 23) The 17th season of RuPaul's Drag Race aired last winter on MTV, but you can stream the entire season in one sitting now that it's arrived on Paramount Plus this week. If you missed it the first time around, get gagged for guest judges including Sandra Bernhard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Hunter Schafer and Doechii. Apple TV Plus
