The Riot Club (Posh)

‘An Education’ director Lone Scherfig adapts Laura Wade's controversial play, with a cast of up-and-coming British stars including Sam Claflin, Natalie Dormer and Max ‘son of Jeremy’ Irons. When Wade’s play about a group of privileged public-school psychos calling themselves The Riot Club premiered during the General Election in 2010, reviews ranged from five-star raves like the one in Time Out to cries of anti-establishment slander. Let’s hope the film can retain that sense of spiky, class-baiting insouciance, and not water down the play’s obvious parallels with the past history of many of our leading politicians. Scherfig’s ‘An Education’ was a smart look at Britain’s cultural landscape back in the ’60s, let’s hope she can turn that keen eye on a more modern topic.