Humboldt County - SXSW Premiere

Categories: Drama

To be honest, up until an hour before I saw this movie, I had assumed we were going to see a documentary about pot growers - and was not looking forward to it.

But that is not what this movie was at all. It was actually a movie with real, honest to goodness actors, and a pretty compelling story to go with it.

After seeing his potential medical future go down the drain, Peter involves himself with a woman and takes a trip to her home with her, where she quickly abandons him. And he must find his way back home by himself - but does he even want to go back?

The meat of the movie strikes me as being about running away. Running away from society, your responsibilities, even your parents. Running away so much some times that you are inevitably running back towards what your parents were themselves running from.

For most people they will see the movie poster or see some promotional material and think oh, that’s just a drug movie. But it’s not. It’s much more.

This is very much a character driven movie, that some people don’t have the patience to sit through anymore. But it’s nice to see a film were you can actually see a character grow and change throughout a movie. Where they can actually learn something about themselves and you can see it unfold with them and for them.

It’s sad that studios don’t see an audience for these kinds of movies in the theaters. In cases like this, they are usually worth seeing.

Then She Found Me - SXSW Premiere

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance

It is funny, that you can have a movie with an Oscar winner and so many well known actors and come out thinking that you just watched such a small movie. That’s a testament to either how hard someone worked on the film to give it that feel, or how hard it was to actually get the movie made.

After listening to Helen Hunt talk about making the movie, you definitely get the feeling it was both.

‘Then She Found Me’ is a small movie about a near baby crazy school teacher (Helen Hunt) who, after being left by her husband (Matthew Broderick) and losing her adoptive mother, is approached by her birth mother (Bette Midler) to re-enter her life while at the same time falling for the father (Colin Firth) of one of her students.

It’s interesting that this movie is able to keep its sweetness about it with all of the drama that seems to follow Helen Hunt’s character. From Helen Hunt’s mouth she says that this is a movie about betrayal and she couldn’t be more right.

From the infidelities, to the lies and anger, no one character can stand apart in this movie and feel like they have always done the right thing. Until the very end when it seems like Hunt’s character realizes how long she has been betraying herself.

The performance in this movie are top notch, especially Colin Firth, who brings a lot of emotion into this role as a single parent of two children and manages to bring an equal balance of both humor and anger to the part.

The movie is both sad and funny, much like real life, and deserves an audience. With the way that most movies are marketed and shown now-a-days, I worry that this is the type of movie that will be ignored for lack of marketing, but it truly is a movie that should be seen and enjoyed.

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The site was first launched in 2005, when I realized I go to the movie theater ALOT more than the average person, and certainly more than the people I associate with.

After a bit of a lull in reviews at the end of 2007, trying now to prepare for a big relaunch to coinicide with the SXSW Film Festival.

Movies Seen in the theater (as best as I can figure) starting in July of 2003.
2003 - 34
2004 - 84
2005 - 103
2006 - 82
2007 - 86

These stats are updated yearly and don't include multiple showings of the same movie. I guess with the NHL hockey strike I had a lot of extra time in 2005.