LONESOME JIM / Steve Buscemi (2006)
September 30th, 2007 by Scott Marks
LONESOME JIM (2006)
Directed by Steve Buscemi
Written by James C. Strouse
Starring: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place & Kevin CorriganRunning Time: 91 min.
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
As a director Steve Buscemi charged out of the box with his first feature Trees Lounge and his subsequent two films have not show any signs of growth. Casey Affleck plays a 27-year-old loser forced to move back in with mom and dad who is saved by saintly Ms. Tyler and her son. Anything with Liv Tyler, except those films that have the word “Rings” in the title, is worth seeing, but you’ll be hard-pressed to understand her attraction to Affleck’s loafer Jim. It doesn’t help that this is one of the ugliest shot-on-video films to find theatrical distribution.
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Dig A Hole: “Night of the Living Dead’s” Karl Hardman
September 29th, 2007 by Scott Marks
Maybe the cellar was the safest place for Mr. Cooper after all.
Why Karl Hardman didn’t have a bigger career is beyond me. In Night of the Living Dead Hardman not only played the bald-headed, perennially agitated Harry Cooper, he also did makeup, provided electronic sound effects and acted as producer.
The scariest thing thing remains how an insurance agent type like Cooper managed to get such a hot wife both on and off screen. He wound up marrying Marilyn Eastman after the film was released. Even more trivial, the little girl who played the trowel-wielding Karen Cooper was Hardman’s daughter from a previous marriage!
Hardman lost the good fight to the zombie menace on September 22. He was 80.
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