KPBS-FM Radio: “44 Inch Chest” By Beth Accomando Air date: January 28, 2010 HOST INTRO: The writers and star of “Sexy Beast” have re-teamed for “44 Inch Chest.” KPBS film critic Beth Accomando says ...

From the writers of Sexy Beast. That's the tagline for the film, which should help it do well in the UK. 44 Inch Chest stars a brilliant cast of British actors including Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, ...

Drama. Directed by Malcolm Venville. With Ray Winstone, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, Ian McShane and Stephen Dillane. (Rated R. 94 minutes. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in ...

“44 Inch Chest” tells the story of a cuckold who rallies his mates to help him exact revenge on his wife’s younger, French (as if his being younger weren't bad enough) lover. It is frustratingly close ...

LONDON — Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Joanne Whalley and Melvil Poupaud have boarded the cast of Brit gangster drama “44 Inch Chest.” Pic, which boasts a who’s who of muscular U.K. thesp talent, ...

Take the f-word and both c-words out of a new film from the writers of Sexy Beast, and what's left? Very little dialogue, no poetry at all, and yet another derivative ode to wounded masculinity, ...

One of the first things to pop into my mind when I first heard about 44 INCH CHEST was �What an interesting title? I wonder where it came from?� Maybe it refers to a measurement, or maybe it�s ...

When a man's wife breaks the news that she has met someone else after 21 years of marriage, the husband and four friends kidnap her lover while deciding whether to kill him in Malcolm Venville's study ...

Dir. Malcolm Venville. UK. 2008. 91 mins. A long time in the releasing – this is set to finally go out in January 2010 through Momentum in the UK – 44-Inch Chest bares its pedigree early on: from the ...

Writer-playwrights Louis Mellis and David Scinto have a way with deconstructing masculine ferociousness -- relishing in revealing the follies of machismo in extremis. First, with “Sexy Beast,” in ...