Movie Preview: Scots Lads Con the Early 2000s Hip Hop Scene in James McAvoy’s “California Schemin'”

McAvoy directs and is the biggest name star in this music industry dramedy about boys from Dundee who passed themselves off as hip hop stars Silibil N’ Brains and got a record deal and MTV appearances and tours before the bottom fell out.

James Corden plays a music exec, and Seamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley play the rappers, who can’t catch a break from the London music industry because they’re “too Scottish.”

It’s McAvoy’s directing debut, and with all his years on sets, he’s more than ready to take that shot.

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About Roger Moore

Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine
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