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REVIEWS PREVIEWS: From the grave
The Simian Line is about three couples and a crackpot psychic (Tyne Daly) who is in touch with two real ghosts (William Hurt and Samantha Mathis). Lynn Redgrave plays Katharine, a middle-aged real estate agent who is maniacally possessive of her much younger lover, Rick (Harry Connick Jr.), who is an artist. Everything was fine until Rick strikes up a rapport with their next-door neighbour Sandra (Cindy Crawford), a beautiful young professional party planner who lives with her husband, Paul (Jamey Sheridan). Katharine is now consumed with jealousy and she doesn’t know what to do. A young rocker Billy (Dylan Bruno) and his feisty girlfriend Marta (Monica Keena), who used to sing in his band makes up the third couple.
Redgrave carries the show on her able shoulders and Cindy Crawford gives a fine understated performance, but this formidable cast doesn’t help much in absence of a coherent script.
The film is so clumsily directed that all the characters and scenes seem continually to be colliding with one another without any rhyme or reason. —Xooni
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Starring Tim Allen, Joe Somebody tells the tale of a fully grown-up man who, after getting punched by the office bully, comes back for revenge.Allen opens the credit line as Joe. Everybody loves Joe, his ex-wife, his adversaries, his bosses, his girlfriends — they all appreciate the way he helps them get their work done and never complains about anything. even the fact that it’s been two years since he got his well deserved promotion. Joe, however, has one person who loves him more than anything else in the world — his daughter. He visits her regularly, takes her shopping, to school, to fairs, everywhere. But the day he gets punched like a sandbag by one of the office’s bully, and that too in front of his daughter, Joe decides it’s time for payback. When news of his retaliating, spreads like fire, Joe’s life takes a major turn. He gets his promotion, gets his own car-parking space, gets respect and that too from the office bosses — in short the man goes from zero to hero. But where things are changing in his professional life, they also take a backseat where his personal life is concerned.
Joe Somebody is a simple but interesting movie. Also starring James Belushi as Joe’s karate instructor, it’s fun all the way.—Khurrum Anis
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