The Bank Job: Jason Statham (The Transporter, Snatch) stars in director Roger Donaldson’s account of a real-life 1971 London bank robbery. Saffron Burrows costars.
Penelope: Cutie-pie Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Buffalo 66, Speed Racer) is the title character in this modern-day fairy tale about a girl born with a porcine snout. Reese Witherspoon and James McAvoy (Wanted) costar.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Milos Forman’s 1975 classic gets the Blu-ray treatment. Jack Nicholson stars as a free spirit who enters an insane asylum to avoid prison work detail, butting heads with the icy Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Also stars Will Sampson, Brad Dourif and Danny DeVito.
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2008.