Honey Don’t!

  • Title: Honey Don’t!
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Ethan Coen‘s Honey Don’t! is an odd film, for a variety of reasons. Centered around a private detective who talks like a 50s dick while working out of a 70s office, while driving a vintage comfortable and discussing COVID and cellphones, Margaret Qualley stars as Honey O’Donahue who never actually investigates a single case on-screen that she was hired for throughout the entire film. That doesn’t stop her from being a delight, though. By far the best thing about the film, Qualley’s throwback pulpish detective provides a fun flick that sadly disappoints in a myriad of other ways.

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Relay

  • Title: Relay
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The strength of Relay is in its setup and the more technical aspects of how Riz Ahmed‘s character Ash assists his clients, those in possession of damaging documents to their company who choose to return them rather than turn whistleblower, while keeping himself at arms length and hidden in the shadows. However, the weakness to Justin Piasecki‘s script is how the story of Ash’s latest client (Lily James), who is facing harassment after stealing confidential information from her employer proving criminal negligence that could kill thousands, eventually devolves into a rote thriller (especially in the last half-hour) that flies in the face of what made everything beforehand work so well.

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Wednesday – The Devil You Woe

  • Title: Wednesday – The Devil You Woe
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There’s quite a bit (perhaps too much?) jammed into the second episode of the show’s Second Season. We get the school practicing Prank Day (which has minimal effect on the plot outside of a couple of scenes), the murder of Donovan Galpin (Jamie McShane), Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) visiting Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in the mental institution where he has been locked away, Bianca (Joy Sunday) being blackmailed into charming Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) into reaching out to her mother, Wednesday loosing her psychic abilities, and Wednesday needing to solve a mystery on the fly to rescue Enid (Emma Myers) from a secondary stalker (not the one previously discussed) which turns out to be a student (Evie Templeton) with the ability to become invisible.

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