In 2024, married filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke posed a cheeky question with their screwball caper “Drive-Away Dolls” — what if crime comedies could be way less masculine, and way more sapphic? Working in a style and tone that could only be described as “late '90s Tarantino rip-off,” the two essentially “queered” that particular subgenre with a wild, wacky and sexually uninhibited sensibility.

That film was the kickoff of their lesbian B-movie trilogy starring Margaret Qualley, which Coen directs, Cooke edits and they both write. The second installment, the Bakersfield, California-set neo-noir “Honey Don’t!,” continues this project, which is both personal for the pair (Cooke is a lesbian; they have an open marriage), and an opportunity to just have a little fun, riffing on tropes

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