WATCH LIST: Zombie Musical “Anna and the Apocalypse” Dances Into Theaters, and Acclaimed LGBTQ Films “Colette” and “1985” on Demand
In Theaters
In this satirical holiday musical with heart(s), zombies attack small town Little Haven, Scotland, forcing high school student Anna (Ella Hunt), her BFF John (Malcolm Cumming), lesbian journalist Steph (Sarah Swire), and bad boy Nick (Ben Wiggins) to band together for survival. It's John Hughes meets La La Land with gore! (November 30, Orion Pictures)
DVD/Blu-Ray/Video on Demand
A gay student in Paris, Leevi (Janne Puustinen), is pressured to go back home to Finland for the summer and help his father (Mika Melender) renovate the family lake house before they sell it. Joining this emotionally tense situation is a hired-on Syrian asylum seeker, Tareq (Boodi Kabani, a real-life openly gay Syrian immigrant living in Finland), with whom Leevi connects romantically. (DVD, Wild Beast Productions)
Director Yen Tan's black and white drama set during the AIDS crisis stars Gotham’s Corey Michael Smith as Adrian, a gay Texan who, after leaving his Christian family's home for New York City, returns several years later to share some difficult truths. Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, and Aidan Langford play Adrian’s parents and younger brother in this superbly acted, emotional, artful work. (VOD, Wolfe)
Homoeroticism and male bodies reign in this atmospheric drama about an unemployed, poor Lebanese man, Hassane (Hamza Mekdad), whose death disrupts his friends' world. (DVD, Breaking Glass Pictures)
First-time feature director Christian Sonderegger charts the gender transition of a small-town Midwestern 23-year-old female, Suzanna, to a young male paramedic named Coby in this revealing documentary, which combines Coby's own intimate video diaries and interviews with his family and girlfriend. (DVD, Film Movement)
Nico (Guillermo Pfening) is a famous actor in Argentina, but after breaking up with his boyfriend, Martin (Rafael Ferro), moves to New York for a fresh start. What he hopes will be a big international career ends up being a much bigger challenge and struggle than expected. (DVD, Gravitas Ventures)
Wash Westmoreland's biopic is about queer French author Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), her charming yet conniving husband Henri "Willy" Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West), and her scandalous love affair with a genderfluid woman named Missy (Denise Gough). (VOD, Bleecker Street)
TV/Streaming
Revry's first original reality series follows gay Israeli multi-hyphenate and Instagram celebrity On Mekahal as he readies the launch of his new underwear brand with an ex-boyfriend. (November 30, Revry)
An episode of Red Bull Music's new documentary web series about global nightlife culture focuses on Brazil's Batekoo.
On Netflix in December
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable, a new stand-up special from the lesbian icon, goes live December 18. Season 4 of Fuller House streams December 14, with more of sassy 9-year-old Max (Elias Harger), who previously crushed on Blake Shelton. Supernatural Netflix series Tidelands, about a clan of half-Siren/half-humans living in Australia, also premieres December 14, plus the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale special.
