Watched Honey, Don’t, an incredibly mediocre Coen output. I know that this was technically not a Coen Bros movie, but a collaboration of Ethan and his partner, Tricia Moore.
Very heavy on gratuitous sex scenes — which is usually not a big Coen thing, and extremely light on plot. Dialog was also pretty terrible.
At least it was short.
Not sure what possessed me to rent Novocain from my local library, and it was a 2 month wait list.
It sounded like an interesting premise, but delivered nothing. 1/10 but at least it was free 
Yeah, we apparently watched it & I remember none of it.
Thanks for posting your review. I’d have been tempted, but will take a pass. I suppose it’s Honey, Don’t watch this film. 
Indeed! 
Maybe the other lez noir @Lectroid mentioned is better 
The other lesbian noir film by Ethan Coen (a Coen brother, singular), co-written by his spouse, Tricia Cooke, is Drive-Away Dolls. It contains a lot of the same mildly amusing film noir pastiche dialogue, but ALSO has the same, underwritten, hollow sort of feeling. The IDEA of both films turns out to be much more entertaining than the films themselves.
By many accounts, Ethan is the brother that has a lot of the ideas that are the starting point for their stories, and likes the “words” part of it, while Joel is more of the filmmaker guy, less adept at coming up with the stories themselves, but better at structure and pacing and packaging the ideas into a cohesive whole.
Given their individual outputs, Ethan with the two films he’s done, and Joel’s solo effort, a very stage-y but beautifully shot and well adapted version of The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel, I can see how those evaluations make sense.
^ This! We were underwhelmed by Drive-Away Dolls too. You put into words exactly why.
I enjoyed Love Lies Bleeding. Kristen Stewart was quite good in it.
Yeah, that’s come up in this discussion last year 
A friend’s partner did the steady cam for that one, but I’m not sure that’s enough reason to watch it
Similar cast to Honey, Don’t as well, it looks. Meh.
RIP Diane Keaton.
She was in more films than I could count, but I will always remember her first and foremost in Annie Hall.
When a British person says ‘quite good’…
I also loved Love Lies Bleeding** (and as “gratuitous” as the sex scenes in Honey Don’t might be, I’m not mad-- it was the sloppy mystery that bugged me more).
Love Lies Bleeding
I loved this one. I’m sure I wrote about it earlier. I thought the more fantastic/supernatural elements were quite cleverly used, as they represent at least partially the state of mind of the characters, rather than what is actually happening in the world of the film. If you watch carefully, the film is a tragedy, with Lou turning out way more like her father than she would want.
I think Kristen Stewart has pulled off one of the best career redirects I’ve ever seen. Stuff like this, and Personal Shopper have largely banished her former image as a bland teen heartthrob type. She’s now a welcome presence that usually signals interesting, independent filmmaking.
The same, perhaps even more so, goes for her one-time costar, Robert Pattinson.
And watched part two tonight. Very affecting, and I was happy to revisit my love for the tv show & the movies. Plus, I learned (or re-learned, my memory is not the best) that Natasha Lyonne was one of the kids on PeeWee’s Playhouse
I thought it was heartbreaking that he gave up love for his career.
Yes, I said as much in another forum, and someone said, “oh, like Kierkegaard?” Maybe? I don’t know! I’ve forgotten most of what I learned in my philosophy classes.
We finished watching all 6 episodes of the light and breezy Hotel Costiera, on Amazon Prime. The best part was the gorgeous Italian Amalfi Coast scenery.
This Is Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues
It was nice to see the old gang back together, and there were some very funny bits. But this is much smaller in scope than the original, both cast-wise and location-wise, and nowhere near as densely-populated with hilarity. Enjoyable, glad I didn’t pay theater prices.
There have been many shows and series’ that I have watched just for the scenery or costumes, not the storyline.
