Film Review
Patti Cake$
8 Mile goes to Jersey in beat-dropping indie drama
There’s just enough charisma and likability on display throughout Patti Cake$ to make you wish the man behind it were as interested in originality as he was in sentimental manipulation, crowd-pleasing formulas and rhyming insults.

Reel World
A grant is available for your science fiction or fantasy film idea, there’s a stage reading series to debug your dialog and a fundraiser for The Deadly Link documentary. Or just watch Sing at Civic Plaza.
Idiot Box
Inhumans Go Big, Then Go Home
“Marvel’s Inhumans” in IMAX
“Marvel’s Inhumans,” (IP replacement for X-Men) has its pilot open in theaters.