Did some long plane flights and watched some movies:
Honey Don't! was like Drive Away Dolls - like a queer-themed comedy caper by one of the Coen brothers, this one in the detective vein. Took place in Bakersfield, which was fun for me as it's a part of CA I am familiar with but which you never see in movies (though they shot it in Albequerque). I like the overall comedy-not-comedy balance in both movies. Most comedies these days seem to fall squarely in the "not funny, not even really enjoyable... why did they make this about anxiety/trauma?" vein to me.
The Phoenecian Scheme just a regular-deggular Wes Anderson joint with his various affectations and obsessions. This one seemed like an elaborate excuse to produce mid-century stationary and paper ephemera and lovingly film it being signed and stamped repeatedly. While that makes it sound like I hated it I am happy he gets 50 million buckaroos or whatever to make such elaborate little dioramas. Better than more superhero franchise peanut spray.
I liked Caught Stealing, though I guess it's not doing anything new it got Aronofsky Budget level production value and thus felt like the best looking/sounding/period setting version of its story. Not a comedy though, did not crack a smile. You can't just stick a cockney-accented punk in an otherwise normal thriller and say it's a comedy dude.
Also in the same vein of a regular person caught in a conspiracy they don't understand, but with what appeared to be 80% of the budget spent on plane tickets, Inheritance. I haven't looked it up but I assume it was shot on phones on gimbals without permission in four different countries, with the exception of a pretty rockin' car/scooter chase in Delhi. If they filmed that guerilla style they are fucking nuts. Director had a nice intuitive way of avoiding some phone camera shortcomings by having every shot, even the odd looking wide angle phone closeups that distort your face, swooping and moving all the time.
