Legend, Patrick deWitt, This Is England, Future Conditional, Drawing in Silver and Gold

Saturday Review

English - September 12, 2015 18:59 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
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Tom Hardy plays both Reggie and Ronnie Kray in Legend, the latest film to deal with the east end gangster twins
Patrick deWitt's new novel Undermajordomo Minor is the follow-up to the Booker shortlisted The Sisters Brothers. It's a bizarre fable of sorts set in an unspecified country and time.
This is England '90 is the fourth part of Shane Meadows' partly-autobiographical series. From the initial film, it has become a successful TV series for Channel 4
Rob Brydon plays a long-suffering teacher in Tamsin Oglesby's Future Conditional at London's Old Vic Theatre. It deals with the sticky business of getting your child into a good secondary school.
Drawing in Silver and Gold at British Museum looks at the once-popular art of metalpoint, with works from Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Hans Holbein, Otto Dix, Holman Hunt and more.