Any film that’s directly responsible for launching a group chat featuring the likes of Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, and FKA twigs is already iconic by default. But in Mother Mary’s case, it somehow gets better: the upcoming A24 “epic pop melodrama” stars Hathaway as an existentially troubled pop star embroiled in a situationship with her former confidante, fashion designer (played by Coel). Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX contributed music to the David Lowery film, which I can only hope will be the perfect alchemy of indie prestige and every gay music video night in history.
Stop! That! Train! (May 29)
Forget Marvel — in 2026, the Drag Race extended universe’s own Avengers: Endgame-level crossover is headed to a theater near you. Adam Shankman of Hairspray fame directs this screwball romp, in which train stewardesses Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee) abandon their dreary day job on the Stank Rail for a glamorous shift aboard the high-speed Glamazonian Express. Yet when a “Stormaganza” strikes, they’re forced to team up with the train’s snooty first class attendants (Brooke Lynn Hytes, Marcia Marcia Marcia, and Symone) and President Gagwell (RuPaul) to make things right.
Admittedly, I have questions about how a RuPaul presidency could affect the country’s fracking industry. But the concept of American high-speed transit anchored by drag infrastructure? Well, I might become a single issue voter by the time the credits roll.
Heartstopper: Forever (TBA)
Nick and Charlie’s story isn’t over just yet.
The sweet queer teens and whimsical cartoon leaves of Heartstopper are coming back for one last hurrah. In lieu of a fourth and final season, Netflix’s hit YA series will conclude with a feature-length film. Based on the sixth installment of creator Alice Oseman’s web comic of the same name, Heartstopper: Forever finds Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke) grappling with long distance when Nick goes away to university. Can first loves really stand the test of time? Since this is a largely feel-good coming-of-age story, I’d wager that the answer is yes… but it wouldn’t hurt to have ample tissues on hand anyway.
Cry to Heaven (TBA)
Adele (yes, thee Adele) is also involved.
Between Interview With the Vampire season three and Cry to Heaven, 2026 is shaping up to be a banner year for Anne Rice adaptations. Directed by fashion designer and A Single Man filmmaker Tom Ford, the latter hinges on the 18th century relationship between two Italian castratis — male singers who underwent castration before puberty to preserve their soprano singing voices. Cry to Heaven’s starry cast — which includes Aaron Taylor Johnson, Nicholas Hoult, and the Adele — features trans actresses Hunter Schafer and Lux Pascal. Personally, I can’t wait to watch them sink their teeth into Rice’s sensual, flowery storytelling.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (TBA)
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is the next feature from Jane Schoenbrun, director of I Saw the TV Glow.
I can only describe the premise of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma as gay genre mad libs in the best possible way. Fresh off her first Emmy win, Hacks star (and noted bisexual) Hannah Einbinder plays a film director mounting a reboot of a Friday the 13th-style slasher franchise called Camp Miasma. Soon, she becomes obsessed with tracking down the series’ reclusive, mysterious original star (Gillian Anderson, whose turn on the iconic ‘90s sci-fi show The X-Files prompted scores of sapphic awakenings).