Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: 44 Inch Chest; Nowhere Boy; The Unloved | DVD reviews

With their florid use of the F-Word, Ray Winstone and his low-life cronies hit a high noteCan profanity be poetic? Does swearing make a screenplay soar? Can excessive use of the F-word push back the literary frontiers?Singular screenwriters Louis Mellis and David Scinto (who penned Sexy Beast after disowning the equally edgy Gangster No 1) clearly think so and on the evidence of 44 Inch Chest they may have a point. I struggle to remember a movie which contains quite so much blistering Anglo-Saxo...

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