Trailer!: 44 Inch Chest

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Trailer!: 44 Inch Chest

POSTED: Friday, December 4, 2009, 3:30 PM

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So, there's this movie you need to see if you haven't already. Seriously, open up your little Netflix queue before you read the rest of this.

I'll wait'

Okay, in the search field type in Sexy Beast. Add. Enjoy the fuck out of it.

For those already into Beast-iality, 44 Inch Chest is the follow-up from SB writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto and reunites much of the core cast (okay, so only two from the cast' but whatever). SB began with a shot of the glorious Ray Winstone sunbathing in his Spanish retirement villa, barrel belly protruding from an itsy bitsy neon-mankini. He's tan, well-rested and far and away from the gangster doings of his London life (and certainly not expecting the onslaught of badassery that is Ben Kingsley's character). Here, Winstone is a man of a different sort: He plays Colin, whose wife (Joanne Whalley) wants out of their marriage because she's miserable and banging some other dude. Colin, needless to say, is pissed.

So he gets together his buddies who just so happen to be made up of my favorite British character actors: Ian McShane! John Hurt! Tom Wilkinson! How do I know that I will thoroughly enjoy this movie? John Hurt's character's name is Old Man Peanut. And Ian McShane is in it. Like many, I first encountered McShane as Al Swearengen on HBO's Deadwood (haven't seen it? Add to queue) where he said 'cocksucker' every 47 seconds and manipulated a shitload of people mainly because he felt like it and because he could. So, I love seeing him in dandified role. His hair may be slicked back, he may be in a well-tailored suit but I have no qualms about the fact that he's still Al motherfuckin' Swearengen at heart.

44 Inch Chest will be distributed in the U.S. by Image Entertainment but no release date has been set.

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