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The highly-anticipated movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights is available to stream on HBO Max, along with several new movies like Netflix’s Skater Girl, Holler starring Jessica Barden, the neo-noir thriller Akilla’s Escape, the sci-fi action movie Occupation: Rainfall, and more available to stream this weekend.
Netflix’s Wish Dragon is a Chinese take on Aladdin: star Jimmy Wong talks anti-Asian hate, Disney’s Mulan controversy – and why he idolises the film’s producer Jackie Chan
Wish Dragon when he visited China in 2006. The press release states that the story is “based on an old Chinese fable which inspired Aladdin.” That’s all well and good, but to say that it wears the influence of the Disney version of that story on its sleeve is to put it mildly indeed, with Long’s attitude and antics reminiscent of Robin Williams and sequences that feel shamelessly lifted from that film both in dialogue and content. That said, the final section of the movie does offer a meaningful twist that gives it more of its own identity, and the kung fu action is a lot of fun.