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As the star of Patti Cake$, Australian newcomer Danielle Macdonald was the find at this year Sundance Film Festival. Now everyone gets to see what all the fuss is about. She plays Patricia Dombrowski, a 23-year-old plus-sized New Jersey bartender dissed as "Dumbo" by local (dim)wits. No matter. In her fantasies, Patti, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, is a white gangsta rapper whose talent fills stadiums. In reality, she lives in a dump with boozy mom Barb, superbly played by cabaret revolutionary Bridget Everett, and her grandmother Nana (Cathy Moriarty), a sulking bad mood confined to a wheelchair. ( Movie 786 ) How an indie about an unlikely, up-and-coming hip-hop M.C. – featuring an actor who'd never rapped before – became its own underdog success story We've seen this kind of movie before, lots of times, but music-video director Geremy Jasper, in an uneven but from-the-heart feature debut, spins enough variations on the theme to keep things percolating. And Macdonald is the ...

Even if you're not the lying, cheating, thieving type - that would be Mark, a slickster played by "Game of Thrones'" Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, juggling wife, mistress, other mistress and some other ill-gotten gains - there is bound to be collateral damage. Actually, it's closer to a dozen revenge fantasies, going back to earlier wish-fulfillers such as "The First Wives Club," "Thelma and Louise" and "Nine to Five." Like Mark, the filmmakers can't commit to any one revenge scenario, so they try doing it all, which, ironically, is the very thing that leads to Mark's downfall. The comic hijinks revolve around the trio's coordinated attacks - ruffling Mark's ego, riffling his business files, and working through their rage issues. 123Movies - Free Movies Download The actor, such a wonderfully complicated antihero as Jaime Lannister in "Game of Thrones," struggles as the already slight Mark devolves into distasteful ...

When a documentary interviewee says, "My dad has been collecting penises as long as I remember," you know you've entered some unusual film territory. Such is the case of "The Final Member," which revolves around the Icelandic Phallological Museum, an exhibit hall devoted to preserved male genitalia from a variety of mammalian species except one: human. And it's the quest for that holy grail of specimens that drives much — frankly too much — of co-directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math's decidedly quirky, at times unappetizing film. Fortunately, there's an intriguing protagonist: the museum's obsessively devoted curator Sigurdur "Siggi" Hjartarson, who's also a humanist, educator, author and family man. His systematic interest in phalluses began in 1974 when he received a bull's penis as a gag gift. But it was no joke when, in 1997, he opened his taboo-busting museum, located 30 miles from the Arctic Circle. More recently, though,...