The Best Summer Movie Preview Ever!

Finally, the month is rounded out by Dance Flick (May 22), the ever-expanding Wayans family's spoof of dancing movies like Step Up, Save the Last Dance and Flashdance. There's bound to be a gay character or two step-ball-changing it through the film at some point, and the preview (which features gay-fave Amy Sedaris) is actually funnier than it probably has any right to be. If they do as good a job with this one as they did with Scary Movie, this could be some much-needed comic relief after all those explosions.

Here's the trailer:

June: Robots, dinosaurs, and Canadians

The sunny month of June kicks off with what might be the strangest tentpole release of the summer: the big-screen action-comedy adaptation of the television camp classic Land of the Lost (June 5), starring gay-friendly comic actor Will Ferrell and Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel. The puppet-show charm of the show looks to be ... well, "Lost", but the comedy stylings of Ferrell are more often than not a pretty solid bet. And there's Sleestaks!

Also opening on June 5 in considerably more limited release is the gay indie The Art of Being Straight, a comedy that looks at the younger generation's less compartmentalized view of sexuality in all its forms. 

AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz

The weekend of June 12 brings two NYC-set movies that couldn't be more different. On the one hand there's Sex Positive, a documentary telling the story of AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz, an S&M hustler who emerged in the early days of AIDS as a leading safe-sex advocate and unlikely hero.

John Travolta and gay-seeming cowboys in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

That same weekend brings the release of the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 starring John Travolta and Denzel Washington. The action drama is about a hijacked New York City subway train, so I probably won't be seeing it (Travolta isn't exactly an easy sell for me, either) but the presence of out actor John Benjamin Hickey (It's All Relative) in the supporting cast puts this one on our RADAR.

And besides, aren't those two dudes in the above picture a little ... er, "Brokeback-y"?