NewNowNext spotlights the latest (and queerest) movies, TV shows, web series, and other LGBTQ shit for your viewing pleasure in our weekly watch list. Grab your popcorn, squirrel friends!

In Theaters

The Good Liar

Ian McKellen reunites with Gods and Monsters director Bill Condon for a tasty cat-and-mouse tale in which seasoned, shifty con man Roy (McKellen) plots to bilk wealthy widow Betty (Helen Mirren) out of her fortune. Russell Tovey—star of Russell T Davies’ HBO series Years and Years—plays Betty’s suspicious lawyer grandson. Rumor has it there’s a gay reveal later in the film, but we ain’t saying anything more… (Opens November 15, New Line Cinema)

DVD and VOD

Cubby

Inspired by his experiences as a babysitter, Mark Blane wrote, stars in, and co-directed this cringey, off-kilter, magical-realist confection about a gay 20-something manchild who earns money watching 6-year-old Milo (Joseph Seuffert) while fantasizing about a Tom of Finland–style superhero named Leatherman. Think Zach Galifianakis meets James Bidgood, with a dash of 1990s Gus Van Sant. (Available now on DVD, Breaking Glass Pictures)

The Daytrippers

Superbad director Greg Mottola’s long-out-of-print 1996 debut comedy featured an indie film dream cast—Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott—as a dysfunctional Long Island family that road-trips into Manhattan when a wife (Davis) suspects her husband (Tucci) is having an affair. Did we mention there’s a gay twist? Criterion’s souped-up and restored reissue includes interviews, commentary, and Mottola’s 1985 short The Hatbox. (Available now on Blu-ray and DVD, Criterion Collection)

If the Dancer Dances

When choreographer Stephen Petronio decided to restage the late Merce Cunningham’s 1968 piece Rain Forest in 2015, documentary filmmaker Maia Wechsler captured the drama and challenges involved when a modern gay man channels the work of his queer predecessor from a very different era. (Available now on VOD, Monument Releasing)

Mom + Mom

Italian director Karole Di Tommaso spins her real-life story into a thinly veiled dramedy in which her onscreen alter ego, Karole (Linda Caridi), and her girlfriend, Ali (Marie Roveran), decide to have a baby, despite dumbass, bigoted local laws that forbid LGBTQ couples from becoming parents. You do you, ladies! (Available now on DVD, Strand Releasing)

TV and Streaming

My First Kiss and the People Involved

Luigi Campi’s impressionistic debut feature stars Brooklyn-based nonbinary actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez (Adam) as Sam, an autistic teenager living in a group home who suspects foul play—perhaps even murder—when a caregiver she has feelings for, Lydia (Liza Thorn), disappears. As part of streaming service Filmatique’s monthlong Queer Cinema series (which includes Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother), you can view it for free through November 16. (Streaming now on Filmatique)

Earthquake Bird

Alicia Vikander stars as Lucy Fly, a Swedish expat working in 1980s Tokyo as a translator who begins an affair with an enigmatic Japanese photographer, Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi), leading to a jealousy-laden love triangle involving Lucy’s American friend Lily (Riley Keough), who eventually goes missing. Was she murdered, and if so, by whom? Director Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) headed to Japan to adapt Susanna Jones’ 2001 mystery novel. (Streaming November 15 on Netflix)

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