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Is casting a Korean woman as a magical snake lady racist? That's the important question that's been sizzling up the internet over the last day or so. The controversy stems from the Wednesday's Final Trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which confirmed a long-held fan theory that Claudia Kim's serpentine woman glimpsed in the original cast photo was the human form of Voldemort's pet snake Nagini. That's proved to be the case, and the revelation has kicked up one hell of a stink.
Zack Snyder's grand vision for the DCEU may have had a wobbly second installment, but I would have liked to have seen where it was going. After all, how bad could a film about Darkseid invading Earth and the Justice League struggling to prevent it from becoming another Apokalips really be? Sadly, these movies will only ever be seen in our imaginations, with the only glimpses of what Snyder might have accomplished relegated to his regular updates on social network Vero.
Yesterday's final trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald confirmed what fans had been speculating ever since that first shot of the cast was released: that Claudia Kim's suspiciously serpentine character is the human form of Voldemort's pet snake and Horcrux Nagini. The news came alongside an interview with Kim in EW where she explained that Nagini can shapeshift into a snake but fears one day she'll be unable to transform back to her human form.
Jodie Whittaker's first episode of Doctor Who is one of the most hyped outings in the show's history. Naturally, the star attraction will be getting a proper look at the first female Doctor in action, but we'll also meet her new assistants and see what's being described as a shift in the show's direction. With this amount of excitement swirling around it, BBC America has used their mastery of time and space to bring the time of the premiere forward to 1:45pm EST on Sunday, October 7th.
Rocky Balboa going toe-to-toe with Ivan Drago in Rocky IV and singlehandedly ending the Cold War in the process is one of the finest moments of the classic Rocky films. Sure, it was definitely the cheesiest of the original movies (did it really need a robot butler?), but that training montage and final bout simply can't be beat. It's that intensity and exhilaration that Creed II is trying to capture and, judging by this new trailer, it's achieved it in spades.
The rumors that Hawkeye would be abandoning that codename to be known as Ronin have been swirling around the internet for about a year, and though the character didn't make an appearance in Avengers: Infinity War we know he's set to play a big role in Avengers 4. Despite multiple pictures of Jeremy Renner in a slightly silly new hairdo looking very serious, we still don't have a very good idea of how he's going to look in the upcoming film. That might be coming to an end, if this slightly blurry bit of concept art proves to be true.
That Star Wars: The Clone Wars is returning for a seventh and final season is a great indicator of how healthy the animated Star Wars shows are. After all, Rebels just wrapped up with a very well-received final season, the highly anticipated Resistance is set to premiere on October 7th and, in perhaps the best indicator of their success, Solo: A Star Wars Story featuring Darth Maul was the final proof that these are very important to the continuity.
The location of the Soul Stone was a huge plot point in Avengers: Infinity War. With Thanos desiring all the stones to carry out his genocidal plans, the Soul Stone proved to be the most tricky to track down. One of the few to know its true location was his adopted daughter Gamora, who swore to keep it a secret from him. However, faced with the sight of her sister Nebula being tortured, she finally revealed its location, which led to her death when Thanos sacrificed her to get his hands on it.