The Bank Job

The last several days, I've been full-tilt into a new project ... a British topic, in point of fact ... No, not the one from which I was hoping to be paid in pounds sterling. But it just got killed (it happens to us writers from time to time as producers and publisher's plans change) so I can talk about it just a little.

Don't want to say too much about it, but suffice it to say that it forced me to finally rent The Bank Job. If you missed it too, you've got to see it -- it's a cracker. It's based on 1971's "walkie talkie robbery" in which a bunch of Eastenders tunneled underneath a Lloyd's safe deposit vault and made away with millions of pounds. The case was busted because a radio ham tuned into their two-way communications and alerted the constables and Scotland Yard.

It stars Lock, Stock and Barrel's Jason Stratham.

Good fun.

Thank you to Maura Ortega for the snap.