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Legend

It's worth bearing in mind, as you settle in to watch Brian Helgeland's take on the story of the Kray twins, that it's called Legend. It's also worth bearing in mind one of Google's convenient definitions of the word 'legend': "a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated" Because a warts-and-all documentary about London's best-known villains this is not

Six films I'll be giving a shit about in

AAAAAAAAH! I'm hoping so hard that this is the first in a series of five films whose titles consist almost entirely of repeated vowels. (4th) ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Looks lovely, like Boursin risotto. (4th) LEGEND So Tom Hardy reckons he's as good as BOTH Kemp brothers, does he? Well we'll see about that. (9th) EVEREST The story of how a group of brave men