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The Sitter Film Review

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I love Johan Hill. It doesn’t really matter what he is saying, but the way he says it. I think he is a comedic genius. He very much deserves this lead role.

 

Hill plays a lovable loser. He is in love with a girl who uses him, and still lives at home with his mum. He has failed in life but his heart is in the right place. He agrees to babysit three spoilt children, each with their own problems, so his mother can go on a date. This isn’t a film to watch with your parents (the opening alone is not for a child’s eyes). It is quite adult but kooky and funny enough for me not to get upset when it was a little rude or crude (something I’m not a fan of). Hill also plays subtle drama well, the scene where he goes to visit the father who left the family home for a younger women and had another family is played perfectly.

 

Sam Rockwell is great in everything he does, and in this he plays a psycho drug dealer. The three kids in the movie are great too. The acting and the script are all good.

 

I really liked this film and I’m giving it four stars. I dare you to go see it and not laugh.

 

Conviction Review {Film}

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True stories are always hit and miss. Very easily falling into smaltz and cliché. Conviction not only sidesteps these, but also manages to make the story fun.

Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank), an unemployed, single mother of two boys, sees brother Kenneth (Sam Rockwell) begin serving a life sentence in 1983 for murder and robbery of a woman in Ayer, Massachusetts.

Kenneth runs out of public defenders and without a lawyer, is destined to die in prison. Betty Anne, convinced of her brother’s innocence, decides to become a lawyer – sacrificing everything else in the process. The love between Betty Anne and her brother is strong and beautiful. They come from a broken family and only have each other.

Hilary Swank is always a brilliant actress, but she also has the face of a movie star. Her bone structure and beauty make her easy to watch. Then there is Minnie Driver, always excellent, as her bolshy best friend. Accent right on the money.

Sam Rockwell is always good and Rockwell dancing to ‘My Sharona’ will probably stay with me forever. I have never seen him put in a bad performance and this is no exception. I really loved this movie. It is a good story on what happens when lies wreck lives and the justice system lets people down. Highly recommended as a film to go and see.

SPOILER ALERT

After spending 12 years studying, in 1995 with a law degree, she began focusing on her brother’s case. Using new, at the time, DNA evidence, with the help of the Innocence Project, she proved her brother’s innocence, and Kenneth Waters walked out a free man in March 2001 after 18 years in prison.

He only enjoyed six months of freedom. On September 19, 2001, he fell 15 feet off a wall, hit his head and died. The estate of the late Kenneth Waters settled a civil rights lawsuit against the town of Ayer for $3.4 million in 2009.