Patti Cake$ (Cinema Review)

15 – 109mins – 2017

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OVERW-8 MILE

Adopting a string of sick ‘n’ tight pseudonyms, plus-size twenty-something Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle Macdonald) dreams of leaving behind her debt-ridden, sad-sack New Jersey existence and making it big as a rap superstar. Can “Killa-P,” her best friend Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay) and mysterious musical anarchist “Basterd” (Mamoudou Athie) stick it to the haterz, impress idol O-Z (Sahr Ngaujah) and make it big?

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Little Evil (Netflix Review)

15 – 95mins – 2017

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PRETTY HEAVY BAGGAGE

“He’s top of the dick chain, bro.”

Newly-married Gary Bloom (Adam Black Mass Scott) has a rough start to life with the girl of his dreams, Samantha (Evangeline The Hobbit Lilly), when he discovers his new stepson, five-year-old Lucas (Owen Atlas) has a worrying habit of “pushing people over the edge,” in this just-released horror-comedy written and directed by Tucker & Dale vs Evil helmer Eli Craig.