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There was a lot of excitement around the screen adaptation of Quiara Alegira Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show In the Heights. The musical about the gentrification of Washington Heights, a predominantly Dominican and Latino neighbourhood in ‘Nueva York’, had already won its share of accolades including multiple Tony Awards and Grammys. It had also first put Miranda on the map, before he went on to create the record-smashing musical Hamilton. A celebration of togetherness, and a city and a community’s undying spirit, the much-anticipated film was slated to be the perfect mo...
CinemaBlend Director Justin Lin joins the show to discuss F9: The Fast Saga, the latest in the Fast and Furious franchise, starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and the rest of the fam. He discusses opening the film with a vintage Universal Pictures logo, shooting on film, weighing practical effects with visual effects and more. This week, we also review Disney Pixarâs Luca, Netflixâs Fatherhood (starring Kevin Hart), and The Hitmanâs Wifeâs Bodyguard (starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek). John M. Chuâs In the Heights failed to meet expectati...
Print Lin-Manuel Miranda, who conceived and wrote the music and lyrics for the stage hit “In the Heights,” apologized Monday for the lack of Afro-Latinx representation in the film adaptation, directed by John M. Chu. “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback,” Miranda wrote on social media, saying that he’d seen the discussion happening around the movie. “I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. “In tryi...