Save Me
Long in distribution limbo, Robert Carys (
Ira and Abby) heartfelt and nuanced film smartly eschews the typical venom of religious debate to explore the universality of spirit, healing, and love. Chad Allen stars as a spiraling-down gay man who joins an ex-gay Christian ministry run by Judith Light. (Opens September 5)
Assassination of a High School President
Like MTVs
The Paper only more sordid, this film has Reece Thompson channeling Woodward and Bernstein as Bobby Funke, a perpetually picked-on (and yet, in typical teen-flick fashion, smokingly attractive) sophomore who gets embroiled in a conspiracy involving stolen SATs, a hot senior (Mischa Barton), and much more
Mean Girls drama. (Opens September 12)
The Women
Diva alert! George Cukors 1939 film of marital infidelity, catty conniving, and high-society mishaps gets a hilarious modern update by Diane English (
Murphy Brown) and no small amount of A-list estrogen: Meg Ryan, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith (who plays gay), Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, and Debi Mazar. (Opens September 12)
RocknRolla
Muscled-up Tom Hardy plays gay Handsome Bob (indeed!) in the latest superstylized gangster flick from writer-director Guy Ritchie. Shady land deals, a stolen painting, and seemingly all of Londons criminal underworldnot to mention a bound-and-gagged Gerard Butler and underwear-clad Russian mobsterscollide in typical madcap-meets-hyperbutch Ritchie fashion. (Opens September 19)
Choke
With biting nihilistic humor, director Clark Gregg weaves sex addicts, Virginias colonial Williamsburg, brittle mother-son relationships, the foreskin of Jesus, and a scam involving choking in upscale restaurants into a wicked adaptation of the novel by queer author Chuck Palahniuk (
Fight Club). Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston star. (Opens September 26)
Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist
Gay writer David Levithans novel bursts with indie music and sensibility in its big-screen adaptation. Playing a straight bassist in a queercore band, Michael Cera (
Juno, Superbad) avoids his ex by asking Kat Dennings to be his girlfriend for five minutes, which sets off an all-night sweet and snarky romp through the sleepless scene of New York City. (Opens October 3)
Otto; or Up With Dead People
Cliquey gays have often been accused of being zombies, so leave it to iconoclast provocateur Bruce LaBruce (
The Raspberry Reich, Hustler White) to actually create the gay zombie horror-cum-porno satire. With
Ottos film-within-a-film metanarrative, hard-core black comedy, and handsomely emo, neo-goth zombie star (Jey Crisfar), George Romero has been officially punked. (Opens October 31)
Send a letter to the editor about this article.
