Halfway through another month, with a couple of promising releases:

• The Bank Job

Is Jason Statham in another movie every other week, or is it just me?  In any case, I don’t remember anything about this movie when it first came out at the beginning of the year, but the writeups I’m seeing about it now are promising.  Granted, it’s a movie set in the 70s, which is about my least favorite decade for movie settings.  But it’s supposed to be a fairly good one along the stylistic lines of “The French Connection” and other movies of the era.

The cover image above links to the special two disc edition, which includes a digital copy of the movie.

• Step Up 2 The Streets

I saw the first one.  In theaters.  It was my wife’s idea, of course. There were a lot of dance movies that summer, as I recall.

• Birds of Prey

It only lasted 13 episodes on the WB, but had a couple of redeeming qualities.  The actress they cast as Oracle was perfect from a visual point of view.  They really nailed the comic book character in the casting there.  That’s not something you can say too often.  (I thought George Clooney made for a great Bruce Wayne, though his Batman was lacking.)

Best Buy is including a comic book with your purchase, though I don’t know what it is.  It’s probably not from the classic Dixon/Land/Guice era, though.  Just a guess.

• College Road Trip

When did Martin Lawrence gain all that weight?

Next week: I’m very excited for “Spaced: The Complete Series.”

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