Having my final day in Melbourne coincide with $7 cheap day at Cinema Nova was surely a thing of beauty and I took the opportunity to watch the new Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke collab ‘Honey Don’t’.
This is a dusty dimestore detective paperback with a sapphic twist. Margaret Qualley is the titular Honey O’Donahue, a private eye examining the link held by her former client with an evangelical church headed by the charismatically cheesy Reverend Drew Devlin (Chris Evans). Local copper Marty (Charlie Day) isn’t much help, if only his police work was as persistent as his attempts to score the phone number of the clearly interested in women only Honey. Women such as MG (Aubrey Plaza) who works the local police evidence locker and who hooks up with Honey at a bar. Like literally on the bar stool.
This is a significant improvement from the duo’s previous effort Drive Away Dolls, whose humour was far more irreverent and less satisfying, here the tone is more serious and the humour hits much darker. The numerous plot threads feel a little unwieldily especially as a missing family member Corrine (Talia Ryder) is added to the mix and not to mention Cher (Lera Abova) a leopard print Goddess hitwoman on a Vespa, but as all good paperbacks do, the threads wrap up in a satisfying bow as the credits roll.
Not sure this fared super successfully from a box office perspective, but I could easily watch plenty more mysterious with Honey on the case.
Having my final day in Melbourne coincide with $7 cheap day at Cinema Nova was surely a thing of beauty and I took the opportunity to watch the new Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke collab ‘Honey Don’t’.
This is a dusty dimestore detective paperback with a sapphic twist. Margaret Qualley is the titular Honey O’Donahue, a private eye examining the link held by her former client with an evangelical church headed by the charismatically cheesy Reverend Drew Devlin (Chris Evans). Local copper Marty (Charlie Day) isn’t much help, if only his police work was as persistent as his attempts to score the phone number of the clearly interested in women only Honey. Women such as MG (Aubrey Plaza) who works the local police evidence locker and who hooks up with Honey at a bar. Like literally on the bar stool.
This is a significant improvement from the duo’s previous effort Drive Away Dolls, whose humour was far more irreverent and less satisfying, here the tone is more serious and the humour hits much darker. The numerous plot threads feel a little unwieldily especially as a missing family member Corrine (Talia Ryder) is added to the mix and not to mention Cher (Lera Abova) a leopard print Goddess hitwoman on a Vespa, but as all good paperbacks do, the threads wrap up in a satisfying bow as the credits roll.
Not sure this fared super successfully from a box office perspective, but I could easily watch plenty more mysterious with Honey on the case.
