#HerIndoors

Emily Browning plays the narrative device in Legend not because Frances Shea's role in the story of the Krays adds new perspective so much as Goodfellas is the only gangster movie distributors have ever seen. Tom Hardy plays Reggie and Ron stiffly when they are in the same shot and thrillingly when they are not; the mid-movie dust-up between Tom and Tom is compelling because director-writer Brian Helgeland has made the twins different people rather than the Kemp brothers playing the same bloke. The characterisation lifts Legend above Soho-innit predecessors like Scandal (Shadows track / Morris Oxford / disappointing cameo) if not the period clutter (that's a real cup of tea that is). Knox Harrington looks old. Dr Who looks grounded.

(A barman once told me how the Kray brothers visited his parents' pub in London: 'They stole an ashtray and said, "We'll be back."')