Audiences hoping for a mainstream LGBTQ feature film in theaters this season will have to hold their breaths until 2022, when Billy Eichner’s romantic comedy, “BROS” hits, starring a who’s who of out performers.
As is often the case, LGBTQ films were plentiful this year, but mostly as independent productions. “The Power of the Dog” might be the highest-profile LGBTQ-themed film of the year.
It opened in theaters before streaming on Netflix in early December. Directed by Jane Campion (“The Piano”) and based on the Thomas Savage novel, it’s a western starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil, a rancher who mocks a widowed woman (Kirsten Dunst) and her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), only to have them both enter his life via a marriage proposal by his