Our essential movie list to watch this Spring 2025! Lesbian B-movie with twists and turns galore, don't miss Honey, Don't. The hilarious divorce battle that gets a little stabby — A reimagining of the 1989 comedy The War of the Roses. Sorry Baby is a trauma story that's warm and bitingly funny. Plus, check out the glory days of black and white horror flicks with Universal Classic Monsters all showing at DENDY.
These are our top four movies to get super excited about and watch this spring 2024.
Honey Don’t
LESBIAN B-MOVIE WITH TWISTS AND TURNS GALORE
FUSE movie pick of the month! Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Honey Don’t is the second in director Ethan Coen and writer wife Tricia Cooke’s so-called lesbian B-movie trilogy; the first, Drive-Away Dolls, is currently streaming on Binge. Like that first film, Margaret Qualley (The Substance) stars, this time as a private investigator who teams up with a local cop (Aubrey Plaza) to investigate a series of suspicious deaths which may or may not be connected to a mysterious church and its leader (Chris Evans).
Variety calls it “a knowingly light and funny mock escapist thriller”.
Did you know? In 2024, 23.6% of films released by major studios included LGBTIQ+ characters, a three-year low, according to GLAAD. This represents a decrease from 27.3% in 2023 and 28.5% in 2022.
The Roses
HILARIOUS DIVORCE BATTLE THAT GETS A LITTLE STABBY
A reimagining of the 1989 comedy The War of the Roses, The Roses sees happily married, career-savvy couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch) hit a rough patch when Ivy’s career as a chef takes off while Theo loses his job. Words become weapons and old resentments become knives to twist, as push comes to literal shove between the once happy couple.
Allison Janney, Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon and Ncuti Gatwa provide comic support, but it’s the two leads going head to head that provides the bulk of the laughs, however bruising.
Sorry, Baby
A TRAUMA STORY THAT’S WARM AND BITINGLY FUNNY
A black comedy drama which Vanity Fair calls “a keenly observed portrait of a woman blown off course by a traumatic incident”, Sorry, Baby is the feature film debut of writer-director and star Eva Victor. Victor plays Agnes, a college professor in the midst of recovering from a sexual assault. And while that sounds like heavy material, Victor’s Sundance award-winning screenplay balances out its themes with humour and heart.
Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17), Lucas Hedges (Ladybird) and John Carroll Lynch (Fargo) also star.
Universal Classic Monsters
THE GLORY DAYS OF BLACK & WHITE HORROR FLICKS
Over six weeks, six classic monster features will screen at Dendy. Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein.
The latter three are directed by James Whale, the filmmaker who you may remember was portrayed by Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998), earning the Brit his first Oscar nomination; Whale lived as an openly gay man, rare for America let alone Hollywood in the 1920s and ’30s. All three of his films were hits, and now a modern audience can enjoy these horror classics as intended.
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