Earlier this week, Alex Garland’s new sci-fi feature film Annihilation came under controversy for whitewashed casting. The movie, which opens next week, stars Natalie Portman as a biologist who leads a team into an unknown area called the shimmer, where the laws of physics don’t apply. While Portman is white, of Israeli descent, in the … Continue reading Natalie Portman responds to ‘Annihilation’ whitewashing criticism