Kevin’s picks on DVD this week: Alice in Wonderland: 60th Anniversary Blu-ray, Monsters, Never Let Me Go, Let Me In, All About Eve and An Affair to Remember
Stinker of the week: Conviction
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10. CONVICTION
Each year, some films try so hard to win awards that they become mockeries of themselves. “Conviction” was such a movie, featuring a woman trying to exonerate her brother for murder. Like last year’s “Amelia,” no amount of good acting from Hillary Swank could save this film from the wash of award movie cliches that were thrown at the screen.
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On October 29, Fat Guy Kevin Carr rolled into the FOX 28 studios in Columbus, Ohio for a weekly movie review segment. This week, he talked about Conviction, Saw 3D and Tron Night
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Rated R
Opens: October 29, 2010
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis, Minnie Driver and Clea DuVall
Directed by: Tony Goldwyn
Kevin says Conviction kinda sucks!
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On This Week’s Show: It’s Halloween weekend, and that means the Fat Guys are more concerned about getting a big bag of candy instead of watching movies. This might account for the fact that neither of them saw Saw 3D… or maybe it was because like most of the other Saw movies, Lionsgate didn’t screen this one for press. That doesn’t stop the Fat Guys from talking about it, as well as a brief nod to the new Oscar-bait film Conviction, which Kevin did see. Neil is too tired in this episode to care either way. The show rolls on as Kevin tells how he almost got in a fight after seeing Paranormal Activity 2 before talking box office numbers and laying down a Fat Guy Five, in which he ranks the previous Saw movies.
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CONVICTION