Margin Call is a Wall Street-based thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis, with a cast including Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto and Demi Moore.
For the reviews this week Moviejuice presenter Grant Lauchlan has been joined by Siobhan Synnot, journalist and film critic for Scotland on Sunday, and Glasgow-born movie screenwriter Sergio Casci.
Siobhan says during their discussion: “It’s a really surprising one. If someone said ‘would you like to go and see accounts for an hour and a half?’ I would have said ‘no no no’. But actually, this is the sort of movie Oliver Stone should have made with Wall Street 2."
Sergio adds: “The thing about it is that it’s not a financial movie, it’s a disaster film, and instead of having a great lump of space rock hurtling towards earth you’ve got a multimillion dollar financial collapse hurtling towards the earth.
“But either way you know it’s going to make a really big bang when it hits. That’s the genius of this film: they take something that is complex and quite dry, and they make it a good old-fashioned disaster movie.”
To find out what else the trio had to say - and what they gave the film out of five, tune into Moviejuice on STV tonight at 8pm.
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