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Is ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ racist?

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By Mili Mitra on Oct 1 Twenty years after the first Harry Potter book was released in the United States, the franchise still has the power to amaze — and offend. To this day, J.K. Rowling’s series is still banned in some schools and libraries for promoting “witchcraft.” But with the release last week of a new trailer for the next film in the fictional universe, “Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” Rowling is facing a different sort of backlash. This one shouldn’t be dismissed so easily. At the heart of today’s Harry Potter controversy is a five-second clip in the “Fantastic Beasts 2” trailer showing South Korean actress Claudia Kim transforming into a massive snake. The scene apparently reveals the backstory behind her character, Nagini, who eventually becomes Voldemort’s pet: She is a “maledictus,” or shape-shifter, cursed to eventually become trapped in a snake’s body. That doesn’t sound too offensive or controversial, until you realize that Kim is one of the only w...

Movie Preview: Alita: Battle Angel - Full Movie HD online released on Feb 14, 2019

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Alita: Battle Angel -- Full Movie HD online on Cuckoo channel SYNOPSIS Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her ne...

The latest Aquaman Screening Reactions Compare It To A Phase 1 MCU Movie

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AQUAMAN - Full Movie 2018 DC Comics Movies of Justice League Film on Dec 21, 2018 Warner Bros. has screened James Wan's Aquaman movie for early test audiences and the first reactions have begun to surface, indicating the DC Comics film is good - but not great. The studio launched their current DC franchise in 2013 with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, introducing a new take on Superman. However, the cinematic world opened up immensely in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which officially introduced Batman and Wonder Woman and offered glimpses of The Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman. Now, Arthur Curry aka. Aquaman (Jason Momoa) is getting his own solo movie when the eponymous film opens in theaters later this year. Aquaman will be the first DC movie released by Warner Bros. since Justice League, and it joins a franchise that hasn't always performed well with critics or at the box office. While Man of Steel was successful enough, Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad both receiv...

Movie Preview -- AQUAMAN (DC Movie of Justice League) on December 21, 2018

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Every year, the shift into cooler weather comes alongside a shift into a cooler box office lineup: fewer billion-dollar blockbusters, fewer on-screen explosions, and a general trend toward less slashing, crashing action and more intense emotional action. The one thing that really heats up at the box office during the fall and winter season is the awards race: the last quarter of the year is a time for Oscar-bait projects and intense awards campaigning. AQUAMAN - Full Movie 2018 DC Movies of Justice League on Dec 21, 2018 The summary: Fresh off his central role in DC’s troubled production of Justice League, undersea superhero Aquaman (Jason Momoa) gets his own film. The child of a human and an Atlantean, he’s caught between the sides of his heritage when surface-dwellers and his underwater kingdom go to war. Why Cuckoo users might care: Justice League was the most promising of the DC movies to date, and Momoa’s Aquaman, with his rough, smirking humor and outsized version of...

Cuckoo Movie preview on December 14, 2018 - MORTAL ENGINES

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Every year, the shift into cooler weather comes alongside a shift into a cooler box office lineup: fewer billion-dollar blockbusters, fewer on-screen explosions, and a general trend toward less slashing, crashing action and more intense emotional action. The one thing that really heats up at the box office during the fall and winter season is the awards race: the last quarter of the year is a time for Oscar-bait projects and intense awards campaigning.  With December 2018, we move on to new Spider-Man Miles Morales, James Cameron’s return to filmmaking with  Alita: Battle Angel , a  Transformers  spinoff that feels like a weird fit for the holidays, and Mary Poppins’ return to London.   This isn’t a comprehensive list of releases. We’re focusing primarily on titles of particular interest to  Verge  readers, with a tongue-in-cheek consideration of what these films have to say about the future of film, awards season, or the world we live in. DECEMBE...

Whether BitTorrent Traffic is Dead, A Comeback as Cuckoo, flocking to new world of sharing traffic

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By Ernesto on Sep 26, 2018 File-sharing traffic, BitTorrent was so popular particular before but it was decreasing a lot and now a new world is making a comeback as a decentralized video player named  Cuckoo , totally free and anonymous based on p2p connection. New data reveals that Cuckoo will replace BitTorrent as the dominant source of upstream traffic worldwide especially in video files. Cuckoo's increased fragmentation in the streaming market may play a great role in this resurgence. Many Internet traffic reports have been published over the years, documenting how traffic patterns change over time. One of the trends that emerged in recent years, is that BitTorrent’s share of total Internet traffic decreased. With the growth of services such as YouTube and Netflix, streaming started to generate massive amounts of bandwidth. As a result, BitTorrent lost a significant chunk of its ‘market share.’ This trend gradually increased, until recently. In some parts of th...