Shirtless boardwalk boys, drag detectives, and more beach-set movies 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!Get your boomboxes out, find a spot on the sand to lay your blanket and get ready to dance to “Padam!” It’s beach season, baby, and this week’s streaming picks all include fun (and peril and heartbreak and everything in between) in the sun.
Just remember to bring SPF, iced coffee, and your cutest bathing suit. If it rains, these movies will provide the ultimate beach fantasy.Read on for beach-themed movies to stream this weekend.This 2000 comedy, directed by Robert Lee King and starring the one and only Charles Busch as Captain Monica Stark, is based on Busch’s play of the same name.
A wackadoo, camp send-up of 1960s beach movies mixed with a murder mystery, Busch plays Stark like a diva from the Hollywood studio system, while Lauren Ambrose is “Chicklet,” a parody of Gidget who may or may not be a serial killer with multiple personalities.
This hilarious, often-absurd flick also features Amy Adams before she was, you know, Amy Adams. Fun fact: Busch played Chicklet in the stage version of Psycho Beach Party!Streaming on Tubi. Rentable on AppleTV, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube, and Vudu.Let’s get one thing out of the way: this 2007 drama by Jonah Markowitz is schmaltzy.
