Here’s our roundup of movie/series trailers that have hit the web since the last Trailer Tuesday. Pride has kept us busy so it’s been a minute for these. Watch these sneak peeks of films and series — mainstream, indie and queer (if we’re lucky) — coming soon (or recently premiered) to theaters or a streaming platform near you.
Listed in order of premiere date.
The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel
This feature documentary about former soccer star Tony Powell who, decades after vanishing from the public eye, resides as the last guest of West Hollywood’s Holloway Motel. When the motel closes, he must confront his past, the relationships he abandoned and the secrets that shaped his life. It is a poignant story of identity, LGBTQ+ history, forgiveness, and homecoming, while also being an unexpected love letter to West Hollywood – a place that I and so many queer people have called our home.
Release date TBA.
It’s Dorothy!
Since Dorothy Gale started her epic journey down the Yellow Brick Road 125 years ago in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, she’s become a celebrity, a brand, and a beacon for marginalized voices across our culture. It’s Dorothy! brings her timeless adventures in Oz to life through the human experiences of a new generation of star performers, infused with the spirit and influence of Judy Garland and more.
With Fairuza Balk, John Waters, Lena Waithe, Margaret Cho, Rufus Wainwright and others, this film centers on the perspectives of women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ voices.
Now streaming on Peacock. Available on VOD June 12.
Girls Like Girls
Based on writer/director Hayley Kiyoko’s hit single and best-selling novel of the same name and featuring all-new music from Kiyoko, this is a heartfelt coming-of-age story set over the course of one sun-drenched summer, where new-girl-in-town Coley falls in love for the first time while learning to accept herself along the way. The film stars Maya da Costa, Myra Molloy, Levon Hawke and Zach Braff.
Only in theaters on June 19.
Finding Emily
When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way. Starring Angourie Rice, Spike Fearn and Minnie Driver.
In theaters Aug. 28.
How to Rob a Bank
A crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists, unaware that their growing viral fame has put them in the crosshairs of a veteran FBI agent and a brilliant software engineer. Despite the unlikely duo closing in, the crime ring pushes past their limits, putting everything on the line for their beliefs – and their most ambitious heist yet. The film is directed by David Leitch and stars Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai, Rhenzy Feliz, Christian Slater as Walton, with Pete Davidson and John C. Reilly.
Only in theaters Sept. 4.
Onslaught
When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter in this new A24 film directed by Adam Wingard (Godzilla x Kong). The film stars Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson, Michael Biehn, Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey and Rebecca Hall.
In theaters Sept. 4.
The Social Reckoning
Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, this companion piece to his film The Social Network, Sorkin’s original screenplay is based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files. The film is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets. The film stars Mikey Madison, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen with Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong.
In theaters Oct. 9.
–Rich Lopez