Tom Hardy has, for the better part of decade, been on a role, and in his latest film, there’s twice as much Hardy to go around. From StudioCanal and Working Title come this pensive, dangerous and high energy trailer for the crime thriller Legend. The film stars Tom Hardy, in a dual role a la The Social Network, as he portrays both Reggie and Ron Kray, the notorious English gangsters who perpetrated organized crime in London’s East End during the ’50s and ’60s. From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) comes the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray,…
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G-S-T Review…'42'
If Jackie Robinson’s fate had seen him turn out an unsung hero, 42 might be more worthy of protest. Taken at face value, it’s strictly inoffensive; it’s the tale of how Jackie Robinson broke the glass ceiling in baseball, diluted into a series of uplifting bullet points before coming to an abrupt and all-too-convenient close (because nobody wants to end a feel-good movie with reality). There’s a blueprint to this sort of cinema, and Brian Helgeland follows it doggedly in his third- technically fourth, if you count Payback*- directorial outing, hitting beat after crowd-pleasing, expected beat. Maybe that’s not a crime worthy of filmmaker jail, but it’s certainly not a guaranteed path…