1. Things We Lost in the Fire. There are a few things we liked about this (supposedly based here, though there is nothing to indicate that it actually takes place here) movie---mostly that the heroin junkie played by Benecio Del Toro lives in a flophouse in Renton and that Halle Berry plays a Seattle woman named Audrey, leading to a scene where Del Toro runs after her calling, "Audrey, Audrey, Audrey, Audrey, Audrey!" Call us vain, but we like the sound of our name. more ›

Hoping to start catching up on all the films that are likely to garner Oscar nominations, Seattlest went to see Felicity Huffman's Golden Globe-winning turn in Transamerica, playing to a surprisingly packed house (on a weeknight no less!) at Pacific Place. Huffman is indeed excellent as a pre-op transsexual named Bree whose appointment to take the final plunge into womanhood is threatened when she learns she fathered a son named Toby, played competently by Kevin Zegers, who needs bailing out in more ways than one. Turns out the lad has picked up a few bad habits in his 17 years of fatherlessness, including drug use, prostitution, and lousy hair care. The movie follows the unlikely pair on a cross-country trip where their reluctant fondness for one another begins to drag them from their respective coping mechanisms against the injustices of life. more ›