Survival often relies on scheming. With nothing but innate resourcefulness and a pair of run-ins with angelic Clash frontman Joe Strummer (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) to guide him, 15-year-old Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) is left the daunting task of salvaging his bedridden dad’s struggling enterprises: piano shop by day, taxi driver by moonlight. The lad professes eternal fandom for the band, yet fails to recognize Strummer in the rearview mirror. It only acts to set up another coincidental run-in with the singer, this time in a jail cell where the kid’s being held for beating up a skinhead. Like the mosquito that lights but never bites, the character of estranged mom (Natasha McElhone buried beneath a flower child fright wig) could have stood a good swatting. For a change, it’s the reconciliatory angry dad (Dougray Scott) subplot that’s more tuned in than the fanciful rock fable built around it. With Vivian Daniels as the by-the-numbers love interest. (2016) — Scott Marks