Hot-and-heavy romance, conversion camp takedowns & more book-to-film adaptations to stream this weekend
Welcome to your weekend streaming recommendations, a.k.a. the Weekend Watch, a handy guide to the queerest film and TV content that’s just a click away!Aristotle & Dante And The Secrets Of The Universe is now screening in limited release, and the coming-of-age romance, based on the book by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, is getting rave reviews.
This week’s picks are all films based on books, including some deep cuts from beloved queer authors.Read on for film adaptations of queer books to stream this weekend.Based on the chilling novel of the same name by seminal queer author Armistead Maupin, 2006’s The Night Listener stars the late, great Robin Williams as gay radio host Gabriel Noone, who finds himself enveloped in a disturbing mystery.
Gabriel reads a remarkable memoir of a young boy, Pete, who escaped from a terribly abusive family and strikes up a friendship with him over late-night radio calls.
But when holes start to appear in Pete’s story, Gabriel decides to investigate and meets his adoptive mother, played to unsettling perfection by Toni Collette.
