The Riot Club (15)
The Riot Club (15)
Dir: Lone Scherfig
With: Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth
Runtime: 107 minutes
SOME bright young things with too much money and not enough sense get together to form an exclusive Oxford club, along the way posing for a photograph that will haunt them down the years - sound familiar?
Laura Wade's Bullingdon Club-inspired play Posh transfers elegantly to the big screen courtesy of Danish director Lone Scherfig (An Education, One Day).
The characters, public school boys, salt of the Earth northern lass, genial Scots pub landlord, are all straight from the box marked stereotypes, but that is soon forgotten as the story takes hold.
A best of young British acting talent, including Sam Claflin and Max Irons, tears up the screen, and a few other things besides.
Grand Piano (15)
Dir: Eugenio Mira
With: Elijah Wood, John Cusack
Runtime: 90 minutes
EUGENIO Mira's thriller about a concert pianist (Elijah Wood) being targeted by an assassin is one to file under so bad it is good, albeit in an unintentionally funny way.
Wood is Tom Selznick, a star of the classical scene who had to retire early due to stage fright. On his first night back, he opens the score to find a note telling him that if he plays one wrong note, he dies.
Now that is a tough crowd. With every twist and turn of an already off the wall story the tale grows more demented.
20,000 Days on Earth (15)
Dirs: Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth
With: Ray Winstone, Kylie Minogue
Runtime: 97 minutes
NICK Cave: so predictable, is he not? Well, in one sense only. One would expect rock's renaissance man to say yes to taking part in a documentary that is as stylish and intelligent as his good self, which is precisely what he does here. Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth follow the Bad Seeds frontman as he moves from studio and analysis session to lunch with bandmate Warren Ellis (fried eels, since you ask). Cave is a persuasive guide to himself and the performance process; also along for the ride are Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone who jump into Cave's Jag to add their tuppence worth.
Glasgow Film Theatre and Cameo, Edinburgh, tomorrow-September 25
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