![]() ![]() ![]() This article was amended on to clarify that Israel Folau was sacked by Rugby Australia, not the NRL. Honourable mentions: Confess, Fletch (film, 2 May), Death’s Roulette (film, 5 May), Five Bedrooms season 4 (TV, 14 May), Smile (film, 16 May), Ghosts of Beirut (TV, 20 May), The New Infernal Machine (film, 23 May), Triangle of Sadness (film, 30 May), The Visitor (film, 31 May). The reviews have been so-so, though the Guardian’s Joel Golby described the eight-part series as “a particularly interesting example of remakemania” that “surprised me with how gripping it was”. Refitted with a contemporary setting, the two key roles this time are played by Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan. Superstar: With Chris Connelly, Larry Hackett, Mara Reinstein, Bryan Cranston. Most critics stopped asking the question “do we really need a remake of … ” long ago, given the answer was invariably “no!” The latest remake nobody asked for reworks Adrian Lyne’s 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction, about a New York lawyer (Michael Douglas) obsessively stalked by a jilted lover (Glenn Close). Honourable mentions: Leave No Trace (film, 1 May), Sex, Lies and Videotape (film, 1 May), Peggy Sue Got Married (film, 5 May), Oliver! (film, 5 May), Body Double (film, 12 May), The Big Chill (film, 12 May), The Bridge on the River Kwai (film, 12 May), The Age of Innocence (film, 12 May), Blue Lights (TV, 18 May), Normal People (TV, 25 May), The Night Logan Woke Up (TV, 25 May), History of the Sitcom (TV, 31 May). But Marder avoids familiar territory by introducing the protagonist’s past (he’s a recovering addict) and a clinic that helps people deal with hearing loss.Īhmed delivers a terrific, unfaltering performance, and the sound design cleverly takes us inside the head of the protagonist with audio effects applied in very interesting ways. I’ve never seen a film about hearing loss as captivating as Darius Marder’s drama about Ruben (Riz Ahmed), a punk-metal drummer who is going deaf and is instructed by a doctor to avoid all loud noises. ![]()
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