Votes: 1, R min Comedy, Romance. PG 97 min Action, Adventure, Crime. Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins. PG min Biography, Drama, History. A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
R 95 min Comedy, Drama. A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness and a Hollywood acting career. R min Action, Drama, Sci-Fi. In the year , the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth.
A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. Faithful, enchanting adaptation of Jane Austen 's nineteenth-century tale of Emma Woodhouse--a clever young woman whose mischievous matchmaking schemes nearly end up jeopardizing her own shot at romance.
Votes: 5, PG min Action, Drama, History. R min Action, Crime, Drama. A disgraced policeman helps a young detective to hunt down a serial killer who targets Turkish women in Paris. Votes: 11, PG min Animation, Adventure, Comedy. A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.
Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade Earth and had inflicted heavy losses on humankind. R min Action, Fantasy, Horror. At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him. A deadly category 7 storm wreaks havoc on the world.
Meanwhile, kidnappers threaten to make matters even worse. Votes: 2, R min Action, Drama, War. A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. PG min Action, Adventure, Drama. During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry. PG min Crime, Drama, Thriller. Almost as soon as the topic of the encyclical was announced more than a year ago, critics sought to undercut its importance, arguing that papal infallibility does not extend to matters of science.
With his characteristically blunt talk, Francis can indeed sound like a radical when he speaks about nature. And he sent economic conservatives running for the barricades last fall when he addressed a meeting of Latin American and Asian peasants.
But that kind of frank language about capitalism and the environment no longer marks someone as a militant tree-hugger. Nor is it just Francis being Francis.
This encyclical, despite the fervor it has incited in its critics, will be broadly welcomed in the developing countries that represent the future of Catholicism — many of which have been hit hard in recent years by flooding and other natural disasters that have accompanied more extreme weather patterns. These countries are the least equipped to endure crop damage and shortages that can result from drought or floods, and they are dangerously exposed to the risks of rising sea levels.
Within the developing world, Latin American nations have taken the lead in advocacy and action on climate change — Costa Rica is on its way to being carbon neutral by , and Brazil has demonstrated stunning success in reducing emissions from deforestation. That concern is reflected in the findings of the most recent release of the World Values Survey to , an academic survey conducted in nearly countries using a common questionnaire.
The survey asked respondents whether it was more important to protect the environment, even if doing so slowed down economies, or to make economic growth and job creation the top priority, at the expense of the environment.
The only countries in which a majority of Catholics believed the environment was more important than economic growth were Latin American. As a means of comparison, only 39 percent of American Catholics held that view. Our company was set up to create the most important audience and community around short film, creating a culture of experiencing a showcase of films in a social thinking environment.
The Internet brings people together in communal spaces to watch films and create a dialogue around them. This is what filmmakers want. This is what audiences want. In the video below, we talk about why we chose these films to represent ONE, along with some information on the event:.
ONE takes place in 12 countries and 50 cities every month, with live simultaneous events that connect thousands of people around the world. Each location showcases the same selection of the world's boldest short films, many of them on YouTube on our channel, alongside the best in local live music, performance and design. To find out if ONE will be near you, click here. Labels: curation , curators , film.
Promoted Videos hit half a billion views Thursday, October 28, Since that time, thousands and thousands of advertisers have taken advantage of this ad format to entice likely customers with videos about everything from smoked brisket recipes to magnetic jewelry to sneakers. Politicians and political activists have used Promoted Videos to argue for a proposition or against an issue. And large companies have reached wide audiences with movie trailers , recipes , and ideas for Halloween.
This month we served the ,,th Promoted Video view. Promoted Videos average approximately three minutes in duration -- it would take a single viewer 2, years to watch them all. And more and more, advertisers are making ads for TV and YouTube that delight and entertain.
In fact, many video ads reach over 1 million video views , offering everything from solutions for bad breath to candy bars and cars — some of which have achieved increased viewership using Promoted Videos. For anyone outside the U. We talked at length this week with the guys at ReelSEO about Promoted Videos, so read on if you'd like to know more about our plans.
Labels: bizblog , promoted video. More and more of our YouTube partners are hitting subscriber numbers in the ,s and even in the 1,,s. So, here are the four channels vying for the inaugural spotlight, in alphabetical order: emilynoel83 is Emily Eddington, a year-old morning news anchor whose channel is devoted to all things beauty, particularly fun ideas for TV news makeup.
We plan to showcase the winner on our homepage on November 6. Labels: homepage , on the rise , partners , social networks. Our goals were to explore opportunities for Google in Iraq, to understand the landscape of Internet access and connectivity in the country during this critical transition period, and to bring top-voted questions from YouTube to Iraqi leaders in a series of interviews.
Internet penetration rates in Iraq are among the lowest in the Middle East—somewhere between one and eight percent. Only 15 percent of Iraqis say they use the web, and the largest percentage of them live in Baghdad.
There are no commercial data centers in Iraq and much more fiber connectivity is needed to meet consumer needs. To incentivize and enable private companies to lay more fiber in Iraq, a complex set of roadblocks must be addressed—from security concerns to regulatory frameworks to licensing structures. As the country is still struggling to form a government more than seven months after its last election, much of this progress has been stalled. There are signs of progress, however.
And the Iraqi people are highly educated. Many young people in Iraq and around the world submitted questions in Arabic and English for three interviews we conducted in partnership with Middle Eastern news agency Al Arabiya. Google Translate enabled anyone to vote on their favorite questions regardless of language, and we brought the top five questions to current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil, Dr. Here is the television special that Al Arabiya produced showcasing their answers: The Iraqis we met consistently expressed their desire for increased access to the web and for more access to content and tools in both Kurdish and Arabic.
We believe access to information and high-speed connectivity to the cloud will be key to the future of the country. Labels: google , iraq , YouTube Interview. In this guest blog post, AFI's Bob Jennings and Lane Kneedler discuss the festival and the treasure trove of short films they find online. Any festival can tell you programming short films is very hard.
At AFI Fest, we only have space for about 30 shorts and over 3, submissions to choose from. We also travelled to other festivals and looked increasingly to the web as a source for content to curate and showcase. Hearing a group of strangers laughing and crying together in the dark is an almost spiritual experience. We are also delighted to showcase as many films from our Official Selections on YouTube as possible.
We want to help short filmmakers find audiences in any way we can. While AFI is proud to host a prestigious film festival and continues to build a robust YouTube Channel, we are a non-profit organization that relies on a national membership program to help us preserve the history of film, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists.
If you're interested in joining, check out AFI. For more info visit www. Tricking and treating with Disney this Halloween Monday, October 25, Annjanette works with Disney Consumer Products , a division that extends the Disney brand to merchandise ranging from apparel and toys to books, magazines and even food. Today, she shares her experiences on how they use their Disney Living YouTube Channel to engage fans and communicate about holiday promotions.
The Disney Living channel was born in March when we realized that YouTube could provide a great way to answer the growing demand for entertainment and information on Disney products — everything from bridal fashion shows featuring gowns inspired by our Disney Princesses to sneak peeks of our latest toys and tech gadgets. As we go into the holidays, YouTube has emerged as one of the best ways for us to engage directly with a wide audience. For example, Halloween is an especially fun holiday for us at Disney.
The Disney Living channel helps us easily bridge the online and offline worlds. These Ghoulish Greetings are short e-greetings made to delight and surprise our audience. We hope fans will have a laugh and be inspired to share them with family and friends and participate in our Halloween contest with a video response of your own.
We will continue to produce content like this for our YouTube channel because it is a powerful platform that allows us to create value for our subscribers and audience. Finally, our last advice to anyone else considering building a presence on YouTube: connect it to your other social marketing efforts. We always connect our content to our Facebook fan page and share it in our tweets from Twitter.
We have found using a mix of social media and paid advertising helps us reach both core Disney fans and newcomers. Labels: ads , bizblog , guest post , promoted video. Individual Video Program, one year later Friday, October 22, What if Michelangelo had sculpted the David and that was his one and only masterpiece?
What if Francis Ford Coppola had shot one scene of The Godfather , then called it quits on a film career? What if Jim Henson had only given the world Kermit the Frog, and then decided to become a plumber? Would you still want to see these hallmarks of creativity? Chances are, you would. Here's one of our recent favorites:. Labels: bizblog. Digital bootcamp with Ingrid Kopp Friday, October 22, Today being a filmmaker is more and more about using tools other than cameras and editing software — social media, mobile platforms, websites, and even augmented reality technology — to bolster the work, attract and engage audiences, and make money.
Many filmmakers are being dragged into this new world kicking and screaming or simply overwhelmed by the options. Enter Ingrid Kopp, Director, U. She went on to explain that all these new technologies are like a painter's palette. If you choose all of them, you'll end up with gray.
They are there for you to pick and choose what works for you and your film. This is excellent advice but questions still remain: Which one should I use?
How do I use it? And do I really have to? As filmmakers raised their hands to ask questions it became clear that tailoring a web, mobile or other technology campaign for a film is a very personal decision and should be informed by the project and the filmmaker's goals. Are they happy simply with people seeing their work? Do they need to recoup some investment?
Are they trying to invoke social change? Ingrid talked about a new production title, coined by John Reese, Producer of Marketing and Distribution PMD , which a filmmaker could hire to create and execute a digital campaign, taking all this into consideration. She compared this to hiring a cinematographer. You could opt to shoot yourself, but if you have the money, why not hire someone with experience and skill.
That said, you don't need to hire a PMD. You don't even need to build a website, post your trailer on Facebook, or send even one tweet. But, if you're ready to dive in, Ingrid offered up fantastic insights and tips, some of which I'm going to share right here: If you do one thing, create a home for your film online -- a website, a blog, a Facebook fan page, or a YouTube channel of course -- so that audiences know where to go to get information about you and your project.
All your other online presences should link back to this main place. Collect email addresses and zip codes from your audience. Remember that Facebook and Twitter could shut down your profile any time.
He is championing a revanchist tribalism - the politics of grievance and racial victimology that undermines our common national identity. Just like his old pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Mr. Obama is an anti-American, virulent race-baiter. Instead of seeing Americans, he classifies people according to their race and gender. Modern liberal identity politics is rooted in fascist doctrine.
The most influential philosopher of the 20th century was Martin Heidegger. Obama - by his own admission - comes. The German thinker developed the theory of the primacy of race, blood and group identity in a secular, relativistic world.
Heidegger rejected eternal Judeo-Christian principles of moral absolutes. Instead, he called for the will to power through racial communities and tribal solidarity. Heidegger adamantly opposed democracy, capitalism and market-oriented growth - denouncing them as unjust and oppressive.
What is conveniently ignored is that Heidegger also was a passionate Nazi. He admired Adolf Hitler. He was a member of the National Socialist Party. Heidegger believed that fascism - with its racialism, neo-paganism, economic corporatism, worship of state power, rabid environmentalism and hatred of Western civilization - represented the true future.
Sadly, he may have been right. For decades, the American left has been obsessed with race, class and gender. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Mr. It is more insidious and dangerous than that. It is an attempt at establishing a liberal fascist regime - Heidegger meets Jane Fonda. The results are similar to what exists in other fascist states: a pliant dominant media, greater government control over all aspects of national life, a bloated public sector, economic sclerosis, a corporatist economy, permanently high unemployment, crushing taxes, a hostility to Jews Israel , a growing intolerance to dissent, the demonizing of critics and an irrational cult of personality.
The most distinctive characteristic, however, is the incitement of racial conflict. Fascism thrives on fomenting ethnic divisions and hatred, targeting internal race enemies to galvanize supporters behind their leader. This is what Mr. Obama is doing today. The state statute does nothing more than empower local police to enforce existing federal immigration laws. The Rev. Al Sharpton is leading an economic boycott of the state.
It is deliberately playing the races against one another to help Mr. Obama get higher voter turnout among minorities in November. The consequences are the gradual Balkanization and breakup of America. Obama is fueling greater ideological, political and racial polarization. Not since the Civil War have Americans been so divided. He is laying the groundwork for a possible race war.
Welcome to Mr. Sherrod is actually a really worthwhile person , unlike yourself, and now the world knows it. So kudos to you for bringing our attention to a woman who was and is working to bring black people and white people together in solidarity during a time when so many are feverishly working towards the opposite. I try to avoid watching Fox News. Apparently Glenn Beck has been heralding the coming race war.
I also thought it was a joke, and kind of funny. Beck, however, wants us to believe otherwise. Of course this is silly. Fox News has been complaining about the tiny group of New Black Panthers for like a decade. Army at their disposal? It kind of seemed like most reasonable people had come to the conclusion that racism was bad, we needed to work against it, and that if you were a violent, loud mouthed racist you should just stay in your cabin and keep it to yourself.
They knew to keep their racism under wraps back then. Because all people of color are a monolith, especially those predictable darkies. Calling him any name they can think of, blaming him for everything from AIDS to increased activity on the sun, doing anything they can think of to bring him down before the end game plays out.
What happens then is yet to be seen. Will it be the repudiation of the Tea Party by the majority of U. Will it be the end again of acceptable blatant, virulent racism? Will something ominous happen to Obama? I live in California, Los Angeles to be exact. I saw this on a bumper sticker the other day:.
Republicans hate it too, as the daughter of John McCain revealed last year. Neocons hate the Tea Party too. Perry is a Bilderberg elitist and Palin an outright neocon. Bush , is so desperate to win the election she is now promising to wave a magical wand and reduce gas prices.
Establishment Republicans — who are looters of wealth the same as their supposed ideological foes the Democrats — went out of their way to sabotage the Tea Party and turn it into a cheering section for the One Party state.
Hustlers of color are working overtime to rile up constituents who view the government as a magical ATM. They are inciting violence when they say Tea Party racists want to hang black people from trees and then instruct them to confront members at their homes. The Black Caucus is afraid Tea Party Americans will finally reduce the size of the federal government and end the wealth redistribution scam that has gone largely unchallenged for more than sixty years.
Most people know the Black Caucus is pimping racism and using imagery from an Antebellum South that no longer exists to stir up emotions and keep the grand theft larceny going. In the video we are told the Tea Party stands against poor people. In fact, the Democrat Black Caucus stands against poor people and black Americans. It is a front for the global elite who are equal opportunity creative destructionists determined to turn America into a third world backwater Infowars, Abstract : Police were ordered to 'stand and observe' rioters as they laid waste to London's streets instead of confronting them, it was claimed today.
Scotland Yard insiders have revealed teams were frustrated at their inability to wade in and arrest troublemakers while they looted and burnt out shops.
It was only on Monday night, when the riots escalated still further, that tactics changed and armoured vehicles called Jankels were used to disperse the crowds. On Tuesday night, some 16, officers also flooded London's streets - almost triple the previous night's deployment - and they were finally given the green light to confront the gangs.
The Met has also come under fire for taking three days to issue any images of suspects - and then only releasing 12 grainy pictures. The Mail Online managed to produce another 30 with ease. In contrast, Greather Manchester Police were issuing images online via social network sites within hours of similar violence in their area. In Birmingham, police tracked down suspected rioters hours later and smashed into their homes to arrest them. Officers mounted raids on around a dozen properties across the city and made seven arrests.
They also recovered apparently looted items. The police's tactics have led to much public criticism from residents and business owners, who are bemused at the 'soft' approach when their livelihoods are being ruined.
Eye witnesses have told of ranks of police standing by while mobs of youths rampaged and stole from shop fronts and terrorised residents. However, it has been suggested that the approach may also have been dictated by the sheer scale of the problem with teams unable to spare officers to make arrests on the spot. There have also been calls for far more robust measures - including plastic bullets, water cannon and even the Army - to quell the chaos.
It has been suggested that the softer approach has been sparked by controversy over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 riots and wider criticism of policing during protests. Mr Tomlinson was struck by a policeman wielding a baton during the G20 protests in and shoved to the ground. He suffered massive internal bleeding and died minutes later. The officer involved is now awaiting trial for manslaughter over his death. Scotland Yard was also heavily criticised in the High Court in April for using 'kettling' during the G20 demonstrations.
Judges ruled the Met had broken the law in the way it kettled 5, protesters because it was 'unjustified' and an unlawful deprivation of liberty. He said: 'We have had this allegation made a few times. You have to realise we had over 3, officers on Sunday night. That is the size of two small forces combined. It is a significant asset that we put out there.
He admitted there were 'significant gaps' in the police response and that they were 'enormously stretched'. But he insisted: 'As far as I'm concerned Chris Allison and Lynne Owens who led this did not give any instruction and nobody else has either. On wider tactics, he said everything 'from local engagement to extreme use of force' had been considered. Officers trained in using baton rounds were ready if needed but there are currently no water cannon on the British mainland, he added.
Baton rounds, or plastic bullets, can only be used if sanctioned by the commissioner of the Met Police and have never been fired on the British mainland. They were issued to police at the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham in but never used - although the weapons are apparently also issued annually for the Notting Hill Carnival Daily Mail, This has widely been interpreted, albeit tentatively, with the ongoing protests in near Wall Street.
The core is: The bargain has been breached. The core is the American people do not think the system is fair, or on the level. The trailer shows a crowd all holding up machetes in preparation for battle. As the film is not scheduled for release until September, we cannot say whether the film will be as violent and over-the-top as the trailer implies, but if the wary crew members are any indication, this film could be an unwanted wedge of racial anger that no one wants unleashed.
The clash of cultures is then pressured further by fiery rhetoric, mythically-driven liberation theology, perceived job opportunities, language barriers and political issues. So what of the role of cinema and television cultural products in the larger picture of shaping the opinions and habits of our increasingly naive and shallow population?
One need only read between the lines, flip through the channels in a critically-evaluating way rather than a hyponotic, dreamy way and read the statements of the ruling elite, who have made sport of pushing our buttons. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
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