Last year’s smash horror hit “The Substance” was an exercise in excess. The film featured gnarly practical effects, outsized, absurdist humor and enough fake blood to fill a local water tower. But among all of the sequences designed to both titillate and nauseate viewers in Coralie Fargeat’s feature, about an aging celebrity who makes a Faustian deal to turn into …
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“Honey Don’t” wastes Margaret Qualley and a hot desert setting
Margaret Qualley stars as Honey O’Donahue in writer/director Ethan Coen’s “Honey Don’t!”, a Focus Features release.Karen Kuehn/Focus Features Most of the male characters in “Drive-Away Dolls” were dumb. All the sex was explicit, and solely between women. And the violence was the gnarly kind you’d expect from a Coen brother. For example, one person was murdered with a corkscrew. Get …
Read More »Margaret Qualley Enters the Gumshoe Hall of Fame
Down these mean streets of Bakersfield, California, a woman must go, who is not herself mean, who is neither tarnished (well, a little self-admittedly tarnished) nor afraid. She is the hero; she is everything. She is Honey O’Donoghue, and as played by Margaret Qualley in Honey Don’t! — a title borrowed from Carl Perkins’ 1957 hit that doubles as a …
Read More »‘Honey Don’t!’ review: Margaret Qualley shines in fun, gory neo-noir
The skies are blue, the sun unrelenting and the body count escalating in the Bakersfield, California, of “Honey Don’t!,” where Margaret Qualley’s private investigator tries to get a handle on the nefarious goings-on in her city with a small-town feel. It’s the second film in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s so-called “lesbian B-movie trilogy,” and while this shaggy caper might …
Read More »‘Honey Don’t!’ co-writer Tricia Cooke on her new lesbian noir film starring Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley
In the dark comedy “Honey Don’t!” private detective Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley) investigates a suspicious death that leads her to a narcissistic reverend (Chris Evans) and his mysterious church. The film, which debuts Aug. 22 and stars Margaret Qualley in the lead role, is the second installment of married couple Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s lesbian-centric trilogy. Last year’s “Drive-Away …
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