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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is an appealingly fluffy romcom with a surprisingly solid core

sudshr47 August 15, 2018

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It’s Summer Lovin’ Week here at Mashable, which means things are getting steamy. In honor of the release of Crazy Rich Asians, we’re celebrating onscreen love and romance, looking at everything from our favorite fictional couples to how Hollywood’s love stories are evolving. Think of it as our love letter to, well, love.

Crazy Rich Asians is exactly what it says on the box: a deeply romantic comedy about the crazy, rich, and Asian, and all the eye-popping displays of wealth and sugar-sweet declarations of love that that should entail. 

But what makes Crazy Rich Asians special – what makes it more than an extremely convincing advertisement for luxury tourism in Singapore – is the smart and deeply felt culture-clash story at its core. Read more…

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Awkwafina shares a powerful message about the importance of believing in yourself

sudshr47 August 13, 2018

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Six years ago, someone posted a video called “My Vag” on YouTube, but it’s not what you think.

That video turned out to be how rapper and Crazy Rich Asians star Nora Lum a.k.a. Awkwafina got her start, according to an open letter posted to Twitter. 

In the letter, Awkwafina opens up about the struggle to be taken seriously as an artist and the necessity of taking risks when following your dream. “Awkwafina was a dream I was chasing, and in some ways I am still chasing her,” she writes.

She also details how she got fired and became broke all to keep the dream of Awkwafina alive — even when people told her that her act was a “joke.” Read more…

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Hell yeah, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is rocking 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

sudshr47 August 10, 2018

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Thanks to a superb Rotten Tomatoes rating, the near-unlimited wealth of the characters in Crazy Rich Asians isn’t the only thing that’s crazy about the movie’s release. It’s officially one of the top movies on Rotten Tomatoes with a perfect 100% fresh score.

As of publication there are 22 reviews posted for the romantic comedy and all of them are positive, with reviewers from The Seattle Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair, and more contributing to the Certified Fresh score. 

While the reviews praise the mostly faithful book-to-screen adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel and all agree that it fulfills its promise of a solid rom com, others wrote that the film wasn’t as smooth as it could be, with Indiewire’s Kate Erbland saying it “hits a road block in the film’s clunky third act.” Read more…

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The ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ trailer is finally here and I guess I know what I’m doing this summer

sudshr47 April 23, 2018

Meeting your boyfriend’s parents for the first time is never not awkward. But in Crazy Rich Asians, Rachel (Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu) discovers that it’s way more awkward when your boyfriend (Nick, played by Henry Golding) forgets to tel…

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Summer movie preview: What to watch if you wanna feel all warm and fuzzy inside

sudshr47 April 17, 2018

Welcome back to our 2018 summer movie preview, where we tell you what’s coming and what you need to see. Yesterday was all about the action; today’s all about the feels. 
There’s no time like summer for a movie that’s all good vibes. You head in…

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Our 10 most anticipated films of 2018

sudshr47 December 26, 2017

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No, we know – 2017 isn’t even officially over yet. 

But like a kid peeking at presents before Christmas, we just can’t help getting excited about the goodies to come. 

A look at the release calendar teases heists, horrors, hijinks – and, yet again, more superheroes than you can shake a stick at. There are extravagant blockbusters and shoestring indies, oddball discoveries and cozy comforts, and we are here for all of it. 

Well – most of it. Some of it we’re more here for than others. Below, a list of our ten most highly anticipated films of the next twelve months. Read more…

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A producer reportedly wanted ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to star a white woman

sudshr47 November 4, 2017

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Today in bad but unsurprising revelations: Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan was reportedly pressured by a film producer to make the book’s Chinese-American protagonist, Rachel Chu, a white woman instead.

Kwan detailed the experience, which happened before the book was even published, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

“They wanted to change the heroine into a white girl,” he explained. “I was like, ‘Well, you’ve missed the point completely.’ I said, ‘No, thank you.’”

Hollywood whitewashing, of course, is egregious and nothing new. (Remember Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell? Emma Stone in Aloha?) In this particular case, making Rachel a white woman would effectively ruin the plot of the book, which in large part focuses on a Chinese-American woman’s experience of spending time in Asia. Read more…

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