Launching Zing Digital in Tamil Nadu – Engum Tamil, Ethilum Tamil
Launching Zing Digital in Tamil Nadu – Engum Tamil, Ethilum Tamil
Launching Zing Digital in Tamil Nadu – Engum Tamil, Ethilum Tamil
Launching Zing Digital in Tamil Nadu – Engum Tamil, Ethilum Tamil
Introduction to Amazon WorkMail
Introduction to Amazon WorkMail
In January 2015, Amazon announced its own email and scheduling service dubbed WorkMail developed by Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing unit of Amazon Inc. The Amazon email service is expected to bring in $10 billion extra revenue to the company.
Introduction to Amazon WorkMail
Amazon challenges Google with cloud email service for business market
Amazon is setting its sights on disrupting the corporate email market, currently dominated by Microsoft and Google.
Amazon WorkMail sounds like a easy sell to both users and IT managers. It will allow users to email, manage contacts, share calendars and book resources using their existing email applications such as Microsoft Outlook, a web browser or apps in iOS and Android – but remove the need to buy or manage servers or licences.
The email offering is provided by Amazon Web Services, a less visible part of the company than its e-commerce website, but one that has proved highly successful since Jeff Bezos set it up in 2006.
Peter De Santis, vice-president of AWS, which already counts the US defence department and the CIA as customers of its cloud computing business, said customers wanted a business email service that was cheaper and easier to manage than their existing provision, but more secure than other cloud-based offierings.
“We built Amazon WorkMail to address these requests and to help businesses achieve agility and cost savings by letting AWS manage the non-differentiated heavy lifting involved in corporate email and calendaring,” he said.
‘Arms race’
Amazon is charging $4 (£2.65) per user a month, which includes 50GB of storage per user, for WorkMail. There is also a free tier available for up to 12 months.
Ian Maude, analyst at Enders Analysis, said the move underlined Amazon’s determination. “There’s an arms race in cloud computing – these platforms are the foundations of the digital economy – and Amazon cannot afford to be left behind,” he said. “WorkMail’s email and calendars plus integration with WorkDocs extends Amazon’s offering for enterprises and is designed to lock in its customers as the company faces increasing competition in this space from the likes of Google and Microsoft.”
Amazon is competing with HP and IBM in the crowded cloud computing market. Doug Clark, cloud leader for IBM in the UK and Ireland, said on Thursday that a tipping point had been reached for some of the company’s clients, which include National Express, Reuters and Lufthansa.
“They have dabbled in the past and have done a few applications in the cloud, but now they are taking a strategic direction to go all in on the cloud,” he told V3.co.uk.
Amazon said in October that AWS had continued to expand strongly, with usage growth of close to 90% for the three months to September compared with the same period in 2013. It has more than 1m customers, from startups to government agencies, in 190 countries.
AWS operates data centres in Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan and Singapore as well as the US . The newest, in Frankfurt, allows organisations that want to ensure their data resides inside Germany can do so.
Amazon reports its latest financial results after Wall Street closes on Thursday. Its shares were trading at $303.59, valuing the company at just under $140bn (£93bn). The stock has fallen by 21% in the past 12 months as investors fret about Amazon’s profitability even as sales continue to rise.
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Is Facebook down? A history of outages
When Facebook goes down it’s a serious issue: bored office workers are bereft of distractions, children are obliged to talk to their families, media executives cry over lost traffic and nobody gets poked … (no seriously, that still exists).
In addition, Facebook engineers frantically rush to get everything back online – but it wasn’t always like that. In 2010 when Facebook’s site broke down it could be fixed just by turning it off and on again, literally.
Here’s a history of major outages in recent years, from the serious to the seriously silly.
27 January 2015
The latest 50-minute outage was caused by Facebook attempting to change something within its systems which went wrong, not a cyber attack as was widely reported.
A Facebook spokesperson told the Guardian: “Earlier today many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third-party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”
The outage hit both the site and apps, but impacted other services including Instagram, Tinder, AOL messenger and Hipchat, which rely on Facebook for logins.
1 August 2014
Facebook’s second outage in two months was caused by another server error, which again affected Facebook’s site, apps and sites and services that use its login system.
A Facebook spokesperson told the Guardian at the time that the company was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Skype was one of the high-profile services made unavailable for some users who were unable to log in during the one-hour 40-minute intermittent outage.
19 June 2014
June was a big deal for Facebook – its longest outage in four years, which saw the site down for 31 minutes and was the start of an increasing frequency of site issues.
Both the website and Facebook smartphone and tablet apps were affected, leading users to seek refuge on other social networks including Twitter and even Google+.
“This morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused,” Facebook said in a statement at the time, failing to elaborate on what caused the issue.
The outage even lead to brands, including Nestle’s KitKat, to make jokes and poke fun at Facebook’s expense.
Looks like #Facebook is having a BREAK right now. Have a BREAK, too!
#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/rBhH4CMqKS
— Nestle KitKat PH (@kitkat_ph) June 19, 2014
21 October 2013
Facebook’s engineers were to blame for another site issue, this time not an outage but a “read-only error”, which prevented users from posting status updates for more than four hours. The rest of the site was functional, but caused problems for at least 3,587 other sites, according to data from IT management firm Compuware.
“This morning, while performing some network maintenance, we experienced an issue that prevented some users from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time,” said a spokesperson at the time.
Facebook was estimated to have 700 million active users at the time.
24 September 2010
In 2010, Facebook suffered a two-hour disruption that was apparently down to a fiendishly complex networking problem, again caused by its engineers. The solution, however, was incredibly simple. Facebook turned the site off and then on again.
The issue was caused by a runaway condition at a “database cluster” of computer servers among the 500 sites that form Facebook’s worldwide network. In the end, Facebook’s head of software engineering said: “We had to stop all traffic to this database cluster, which meant turning off the site.”
31 July 2007
Only three years old, Facebook’s attitude to outages was slightly different than it is now. In 2007 the site was purposefully taken offline by its engineers.
“This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today,” a spokesperson said at the time.
That outage was long enough for users to resort to MySpace, Bebo and the one-year-old Twitter.
Now seven years on, that kind of purposeful outage is unthinkable, but with a user base of less than 100 million users and having only been open to all over the age of 13 for a year, the site was a very different animal.
• Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support
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Scientists have found a way to ‘unboil’ eggs – and it could be a life-saver
It sounds like the breakthrough that no one was asking for: scientists have announced they have managed to “unboil” an egg. In a disgusting-sounding experiment that you probably shouldn’t try at home, an international team of researchers have used urea, one of the main components of urine, and a “vortex fluid device” to uncook a hen’s egg.
They believe the findings could dramatically reduce costs in processes as far apart as cheese manufacturing and cancer research.
The researchers boiled an egg for 20 minutes, before focusing on returning one protein in the egg white to its previous state. The idea was to combat the difficulties that arise when proteins “misfold” while they are forming, forcing scientists to use time-consuming methods to “recycle” misfolded proteins.
“There are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material,” says Gregory Weiss, professor of chemistry and molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of California Irvin. “In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold.”
Adding a urea substance to the egg turned it from a solid, cooked white back into a liquid. But this still left the proteins unusuably tangled up until they were put into a vortex fluid device, where they were spun and gently pulled apart until they refolded into their proper structure.
“They’re getting stretched apart, and they snap back,” says Weiss. “Sometimes they snap back into their natural shapes.”
Previously, “recycling” proteins could take four days because scientists would have to use the equivalent of dialysis at the molecular level, but the boiled egg process took minutes.
Now Weiss and his colleagues hope their method – while not resulting in an appetising egg – can at least be applied to cheaper proteins such as yeast or E coli bacteria, allowing antibodies to be produced much more quickly.
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The Pirate Bay set to return on 1 February
Pirate Bay’s revival seems certain after the torrent site has started to display a logo of phoenix with a timer counting down to 1 February.
The timer was unveiled last week along with a revived but non-functioning site. Now the phoenix, a symbol of rebirth used by the Pirate Bay in previous relaunches of the site, has replaced the iconic battleship logo and the animated waving pirate flag.
On the homepage, the Pirate Bay battleship travels towards a cartoon of an island harbour named “welcome home”, now positioned overlapping the island.
The countdown timer indicates that the site will relaunch on 1 February, although no official announcement has been made by the lose collective of “30 to 50 people from all over the world” who apparently run the Pirate Bay.
Rising from the ashes, again
The Swedish investigation, which followed the police raid in December that took the site offline, is still ongoing. The Pirate Bay’s operators claimed they “couldn’t care less” about the raid and site’s shutdown, while one of the site’s founders Peter Sunde suggested that it had outstretched its usefulness and should remain offline.
Rivals including competing piracy site IsoHunt had attempted to revive the site themselves, posting backup copies of the original Pirate Bay database and setting up clone sites.
The phoenix logo was last used by the site in 2006 when the site was taken offline by a police raid on a data centre in Stockholm. When the site came back online shortly after the raid the Pirate Bay used the logo to indicate its rising from the ashes.
• Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Thailand
• Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde: ‘In prison, you become brain-dead’
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Top 25 Must Watch Music Videos of 2015
Here is the Top 25 Must Watch Music Videos of 2014. This list is based on most searched music videos in the year of 2014 powered by Google search engine.
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- Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass
- Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
- Taylor Swift – Blank Space
- Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
- Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj – Bang Bang ft. Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj
- Sam Smith – I’m Not The Only One
- Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin
- Sia – Chandelier
- Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High)
- Sam Smith – Stay With Me
- Ariana Grande, The Weeknd – Love Me Harder
- Calvin Harris – Blame ft. John Newman
- Clean Bandit – Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne
- Coldplay – A Sky Full Of Stars
- Jeremih Feat. YG – Don’t Tell ‘Em
- Iggy Azalea – Fancy (Explicit) ft. Charli XCX
- Ariana Grande – Break Free ft. Zedd
- Iggy Azalea – Black Widow ft. Rita Ora
- One Direction – Steal My Girl
- OneRepublic – Counting Stars
- Avicii – The Nights
- Enrique Iglesias – Bailando (Español) ft. Descemer Bueno, Gente De Zona
- The Fault In Our Stars – Charli XCX – Boom Clap
- Michael Jackson – Love Never Felt so Good
- Jason Derulo – “Wiggle” feat. Snoop Dogg
Top 25 Must Watch Music Videos of 2015
Watch DD National LIVE Streaming
DD National (DD1) is a state-owned general interest terrestrial television channel in India. It is the flagship channel of Doordarshan, the Indian public service broadcasting corporation, and the most widely available terrestrial television channel in India.
DD National does not have editorial independence and is controlled by the state and the ruling political party.
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Dish TV Added 6 Tamil Channels on 25th Jan'2015
Dish TV India one of the major DTH or Direct to Home satellite TV provider Added 6 Tamil Channels on 25th Jan’2015. This is a really good news for Tamil people across India and South Asia.
Added Tamil Channel are follows,
Makkal TV, Puthuyugam TV, Vendhar, Angel TV, Murasu TV and Chithiram TV .
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Dish TV Added 6 Tamil Channels on 25th Jan'2015
What can we learn from Facebook’s annual Bullshit Report?
Last week was Davos week, the time of year when 2,900 movers and shakers (only 17% of whom are women, incidentally) congregate in a small town in Switzerland to talk the talk. It also means that it’s the week in which Facebook issues its annual Bullshit Report, claiming that it is not only a Force for Good but also one of the world’s economic powerhouses. In 2012 the report claimed that Facebook – an outfit which then had a global workforce of about 3,000 – had indirectly helped create 232,000 jobs in Europe in 2011 and “enabled” more than $32bn in revenues.
Now, two years on, Facebook has more than 1.3 billion users, and its claims have become correspondingly more extravagant. This year’s Bullshit Report asserts that in the year ending October 2014 the company’s “global economic impact” amounted to $227bn – which is roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Portugal – and that Facebook accounted directly and indirectly for 4.5m jobs.
These numbers were plucked out of the air by Deloitte, the consulting company regularly employed by Facebook’s fantasy economics division. I use the word fantasy advisedly, having read the disclaimer at the head of Deloitte’s document: “The information contained in the report,” it says, “has been obtained from Facebook Inc and third party sources that are clearly referenced in the appropriate sections of the report. Deloitte has neither sought to corroborate this information nor to review its overall reasonableness. Further, any results from the analysis contained in the report are reliant on the information available at the time of writing the report and should not be relied upon in subsequent periods.”
Quite so. But the fact that Facebook feels obliged to go through this annual exercise is instructive. Could it be, one wonders, a sign of unease among its leadership that the world might one day wake up to the fact that the digital sharecropping and comprehensive surveillance that lies at the heart of the company’s activities are not necessarily socially beneficial? In which case, would it not make sense to get its retaliation in first, as Willie John McBride famously recommended when he was captain of the British Lions rugby team?
If that is indeed what lies behind Facebook’s economic posturing, then one should at least give Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues some marks for perceptiveness. Up to now, the internet and technology giants have had an astonishingly easy ride on the back of a narrative that portrays them as innovative, user-friendly, unstuffy (all those jeans and hoodies), disruptive (in a good way, of course) and ethical (“don’t be evil” etc) – not a bit like oil companies, telecoms firms, mining, banking and other nasty, old-style capitalist enterprises, which destroy the environment and grind the faces of the poor. In the process they have successfully diverted public attention from the fact that they are, in fact, just the latest version of the large capitalist enterprise: John D Rockefeller 3.0, as it were.
This uplifting narrative has been dented a bit by the Snowden revelations about the extent of corporate as well as state surveillance, by the extent of tax avoidance by the technology companies and by growing unease about the dominance of US firms in the internet space. So it was interesting to see that the mood music at Davos this year is less favourable to the tech industry than it used to be. “Large technology companies,” reported Gillian Tett of the Financial Times in a dispatch from the Swiss resort, “will experience the same collapse in reputation as banks have endured in recent years unless they rapidly change their approach, say business leaders.”
In particular, the tech industry’s implacable hostility to government regulation is beginning to grate even on the Davos crowd. “Self-regulation, no matter what you do, is just not going to be good enough,” said Paul Achleitner, chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank, told company leaders, before going on to point out that the self-regulatory role previously favoured by the banks had failed to quell a political backlash against their overreach. “Never assume that because something has been common practice in the past it will not be judged harshly in the future,” he said. Just as bankers had been astonished by the speed with which political attitudes towards them had changed during the 20th-century banking revolution, technology companies might have the same surprise in store in the 21st century.
Herr Achleitner is right. There will, eventually, be a backlash. And when it comes, it will take more than Facebook’s fantasy economics to quell it.
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The Top 10 Must See Tamil Movies in 2015
The Top 10 Must See Tamil Movies in 2015
2015 இல் கண்டிப்பாகக் காணவேண்டியப் டாப் 10
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The Top 10 Must See Tamil Movies in 2015
The Top 10 Must See Tamil Movies in 2015
The Top 10 Must See Tamil Movies in 2015
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The Top 25 Must See Hollywood Movies Of 2015
Following are the top 25 Hollywood movies that you should not miss in the year of 2015. This list based on Movies frequently mentioned on the web powered by Google.
Watch Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Official Trailer NowAvengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon, Stan Lee (comic book), Jack Kirby (comic book)
Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 01 May 2015
Plot: When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth's Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for a global adventure.
Watch Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) Official Trailer NowStar Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: J.J. Abrams (screenplay), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (characters)
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Harrison Ford, Andy Serkis, Carrie Fisher
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 18 Dec 2015
Plot: A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Watch The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer: Danny Strong (screenplay), Peter Craig (screenplay), Suzanne Collins (novel)
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 20 Nov 2015
Plot: After being symbolized as the 'Mockingjay' Katniss Everdeen and District 13 engage in an all-out revolution against the autocratic Capitol.
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Watch Jurassic World (2015) Official Trailer NowJurassic World (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Writer: Derek Connolly (screenplay), Colin Trevorrow (screenplay), Michael Crichton (characters)
Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Judy Greer, Jake Johnson
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 12 Jun 2015
Plot: Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor's interest, which backfires horribly.
Watch Terminator Genisys (2015) Official Trailer NowTerminator Genisys (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Alan Taylor
Writer: Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier, James Cameron (characters), Gale Anne Hurd (characters)
Stars: Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matt Smith
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 01 Jul 2015
Plot: After finding himself in a new time-line, Kyle Reese teams up with John Connor's mother Sarah and an aging terminator to try and stop the one thing that the future fears, "Judgement Day".
Watch Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Official Trailer NowMad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: George Miller
Writer: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 15 May 2015
Plot: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
Watch Jurassic World (2015) Official Trailer NowHot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Steve Pink
Writer: Josh Heald (characters), Josh Heald
Stars: Adam Scott, Thomas Lennon, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs
Runtime: N/A
Rated: R
Genre: Comedy
Released: 20 Feb 2015
Plot: When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
Watch he Wedding Ringer (2015) Official Trailer NowThe Wedding Ringer (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Jeremy Garelick
Writer: Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender
Stars: Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alan Ritchson, Josh Gad, Kevin Hart
Runtime: 101 min
Rated: R
Genre: Comedy
Released: 16 Jan 2015
Plot: Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.
Watch Furious 7 (2015) Official Trailer NowFurious 7 (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: James Wan
Writer: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson (characters)
Stars: Jason Statham, Ronda Rousey, Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel
Runtime: N/A
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Released: 03 Apr 2015
Plot: Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for the death of his brother.
Watch American Sniper (2014) Official Trailer NowAmerican Sniper (2014)
Rating: 7.6/10 (19,291 votes)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: Jason Hall, Chris Kyle (book), Scott McEwen (book), James Defelice (book)
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis, Ben Reed
Runtime: 132 min
Rated: R
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Released: 16 Jan 2015
Plot: Chris Kyle was nothing more than a Texan man who wanted to become a cowboy, but in his thirties he found out that maybe his life needed something different, something where he could express his real talent, something that could help America in its fight against terrorism. So he joined the SEALs in order to become a sniper. After marrying, Kyle and the other members of the team are called for their first tour of Iraq. Kyle's struggle isn't with his missions, but about his relationship with the reality of the war and, once returned at home, how he manages to handle it with his urban life, his wife and kids.
Watch Insurgent (2015) Official Trailer NowInsurgent (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Robert Schwentke
Writer: Veronica Roth (based on the novel by), Akiva Goldsman (screenplay), Brian Duffield (screenplay)
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 20 Mar 2015
Plot: One choice can transform you-or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships. Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
Watch The Boy Next Door (2015) Official Trailer NowThe Boy Next Door (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: Barbara Curry
Stars: Ryan Guzman, Jennifer Lopez, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett
Runtime: N/A
Rated: R
Genre: Thriller
Released: 23 Jan 2015
Plot: A divorced woman falls in love with the young man who moves in to the street and discovers that he has a dark secret.
Watch Mortdecai (2015) Official Trailer NowMortdecai (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: David Koepp
Writer: Eric Aronson (screenplay), Kyril Bonfiglioli (novel)
Stars: Johnny Depp, Olivia Munn, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow
Runtime: 106 min
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: 23 Jan 2015
Plot: Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.
Watch The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) Official Trailer NowThe SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Paul Tibbitt, Mike Mitchell
Writer: Glenn Berger (screenplay), Jonathan Aibel (screenplay), Paul Tibbitt (screenplay), Stephen Hillenburg (story), Paul Tibbitt (story), Stephen Hillenburg (series "SpongeBob SquarePants")
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Seth Green, Clancy Brown, Thomas F. Wilson
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Released: 06 Feb 2015
Plot: SpongeBob goes on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes him to our dimension, our world, where he tangles with a pirate.
Watch Chappie (2015) Official Trailer NowChappie (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writer: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Sharlto Copley, Sigourney Weaver, Dev Patel
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 06 Mar 2015
Plot: Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings - some good, some bad - and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from anyone else: he is a robot. The first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. His life, his story, will change the way the world looks at robots and humans forever.
Watch Mission: Impossible 5 (2015) Official Trailer NowMission: Impossible 5 (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writer: Bruce Geller (characters), Drew Pearce (screenplay), Drew Pearce, Will Staples
Stars: Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 25 Dec 2015
Plot: The plot is unknown at this time.
Watch Blackhat (2015) Official Trailer NowBlackhat (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl (screenplay), Michael Mann (screenplay), Michael Mann (story), Morgan Davis Foehl (story)
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang, William Mapother
Runtime: N/A
Rated: R
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 16 Jan 2015
Plot: A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.
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Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Writer: Kelly Marcel (screenplay), E.L. James (novel)
Stars: Jamie Dornan, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Dakota Johnson, Jennifer Ehle
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 13 Feb 2015
Plot: When Anastasia Steele, a literature student, goes to interview the wealthy Christian Grey, as a favor to her roommate Kate Kavanagh, she encounters a beautiful, brilliant and intimidating man. The innocent and naive Ana started to realize she wants him, despite his enigmatic reserve and advice, she finds herself desperate to get close to him. Not able to resist Ana's beauty and independent spirit, Christian Grey admits he wants her too, but in his own terms. Ana hesitates as she discovers the singular tastes of Christian Grey - despite of the embellishments of success, his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family - Grey is consumed by the need to control everything.
Watch In the Heart of the Sea (2015) Official Trailer NowIn the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Charles Leavitt (screenplay), Charles Leavitt (story), Rick Jaffa (story), Amanda Silver (story), Nathaniel Philbrick (book)
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley
Runtime: N/A
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Released: 13 Mar 2015
Plot: Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
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Rating: 8.3/10 (951 votes)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writer: Jane Goldman (screenplay), Matthew Vaughn (screenplay), Mark Millar (comic book "The Secret Service"), Dave Gibbons (comic book "The Secret Service")
Stars: Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Hamill
Runtime: 129 min
Rated: R
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released: 13 Feb 2015
Plot: Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: John Madden
Writer: Ol Parker (screenplay)
Stars: Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Richard Gere, Judi Dench
Runtime: 122 min
Rated: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 06 Mar 2015
Plot: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it's making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). Sonny has his eye on a promising property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig). Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and are wondering where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead, while Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) are negotiating the tricky waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two eligible and very wealthy suitors. Perhaps the only one who may know the answers is newly installed co-manager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), the keeper of everyone's secrets. As the demands of a traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf them all, an unexpected way forward presents itself.
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Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu (screenplay), Michael Punke (novel), Mark L. Smith (screenplay)
Stars: Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Released: 08 Jan 2016
Plot: A man of many adventures, Hugh Glass goes West in 1822 in the employ of Captain Andrew Henry to do some profitable fur trapping. He is attacked by a bear, and badly injured. Miraculously, he survives, but the terrain makes it impossible to carry him back. Henry tries, but eventually hires two mercenaries to simply stand watch and bury him. They abandon Glass, alone and defenseless, but unfortunately for them, he recovers. He resolves to hunt down the men who abandoned him.
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Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Josh Trank
Writer: Simon Kinberg (screenplay), Jack Kirby (characters), Stan Lee (characters), T.S. Nowlin (revisions), Jeremy Slater (story), Josh Trank (story)
Stars: Kate Mara, Miles Teller, Toby Kebbell, Jamie Bell
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Released: 07 Aug 2015
Plot: Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) Official Trailer NowPaul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Andy Fickman
Writer: Kevin James, Nick Bakay, Kevin James (characters), Nick Bakay (characters)
Stars: Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Eduardo Verástegui, Daniella Alonso
Runtime: N/A
Rated: N/A
Genre: Comedy
Released: 17 Apr 2015
Plot: In this sequel, in which Kevin James reprises the role of Paul Blart, the security guard is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvertently discovers a heist - and it's up to Blart to apprehend the criminals.
Watch Cinderella (2015) Official Trailer NowCinderella (2015)
Rating: N/A/10 (N/A votes)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: Chris Weitz (screenplay)
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett, Hayley Atwell, Lily James
Runtime: N/A
Rated: PG
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Released: 13 Mar 2015
Plot: The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul. It appears as if her fortunes may be about to change when the Palace sends out an open invitation for all maidens to attend a ball, raising Ella's hopes of once again encountering the charming "Kit." Alas, her stepmother forbids her to attend and callously rips apart her dress. But, as in all good fairy tales, help is at hand as a kindly beggar woman steps forward and, armed with a pumpkin and a few mice, changes Cinderella's life forever.
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American Sniper: anti-Muslim threats skyrocket in wake of film's release
American Sniper continues to draw record-breaking audiences as it barrels into its second weekend in wide release, but a group representing Arab-Americans says the rate of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim threats resulting from the Oscar-nominated war film has already tripled.
Citing what an executive for the group told the Guardian was a “drastic increase” in hate speech on social media, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee wrote letters this week to actor Bradley Cooper and director Clint Eastwood to ask them to speak out “in an effort to help reduce the hateful rhetoric”.
The film, which was nominated for six Academy Awards including best picture, depicts the story of Chris Kyle, the famed US navy Seal notorious for the highest known single kill count in US military history. But its all-American depiction on screen has drawn heavy criticism from combat veterans and viewers alike – and especially about viewers themselves, many of whom have emerged from theatres desperate to communicate a kind of murderous desire.
A quick search on Twitter leads down a rabbit hole of anger.
“Great fucking movie and now I really want to kill some fucking ragheads,” read one tweet, in a set of screenshots that quickly went viral after being collated by journalist Rania Khalek for the online publication Electronic Intifada. “American sniper makes me wanna go shoot some fuckin Arabs,” read another.
One tweet read: “Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are – vermin scum intent on destroying us.” While the word “vermin” is not uncommon in threads about the film, that tweet was tagged not only #AmericanSniper but, mystifyingly, #DeBlasio as well.
Even the actor James Woods got in on the action, tweeting: “Every time an American Armed Forces sniper pulls a trigger, those who would kill or maim an American warrior are no longer a threat.”
Abed Ayoub, the national legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), told the Guardian that complaints from his organisation have skyrocketed the movie’s wide release – and $90m box-office take, an all-time high for the month of January.
“The last time we saw such a sharp increase was in 2010, around the Ground Zero mosque,” he said.
The ADC sent letters on Thursday to Cooper and Clint Eastwood, the director, imploring them to condemn the threats being made against Arab and Muslim Americans.
“We want Mr Eastwood or Mr Cooper to say, ‘Don’t use our film to promulgate hatred or bigotry. Don’t use our film to push hate and bigotry, and use it as a platform for these racist views,’” Ayoub said.
“If they want to go further, they can say Arabs in America are just as American as the next person,” he added.
Representatives for Cooper and Eastwood did not respond to requests for comment.
The tweets, especially the picture made by Khalek, garnered a backlash of their own. One response read: “That’s not what you should’ve gotten out of the film. Idiots.”
Actor Seth Rogen tweeted that the film reminded him of the Nazi sniper propaganda film showing in the third act of Inglourious Basterds. In Los Angeles, the word “Murder!” was spray-painted onto a billboard advertising the film.
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First female bishop: I want to be a role model for girls
She is about to make history as the Church of England’s first woman bishop, a role that will rewrite more than 500 years of doctrine and see the eyes of the world turned upon her. And the appointment of Libby Lane as the new bishop of Stockport will also, she hopes, send a signal to young girls regardless of their faith.
“Knowing Jesus made sense to me as a teenager,” said Lane this weekend, “and if my appointment encourages a single young girl to lift her eyes up a bit and to realise that she has capacity and potential, and that those around her don’t need to dictate what is possible, then I would be really honoured.”
This is a position that her supporters believe Lane was destined to fulfil, but the new bishop intimates that her swift rise up the church hierarchy might not have happened if she had not been a middle child.
Lane, who will be consecrated in a ceremony at York Minster on Monday, reveals that being squeezed between two siblings had a formative influence that made her strive that much harder. She has two children of her own. “I was the one in the middle who tried to make things work,” Lane says. “My older sister is very clever. I’m bright and I worked hard, but I’m always conscious of following in my sister’s footsteps.”
The healthy sense of sibling rivalry inculcated a desire to get things done, she believes. “I think there was probably a degree of steel and determination from there quite early, overlaid with a desire to keep people engaged and happy,” she says in a short documentary to be released by the Church of England on YouTube.
Lane admits to feeling the pressure that comes with the historic appointment, expressing concern that her position may distract people from the message of Christ.
“I am aware that what I say and do will be heard by millions, many of whom have no other contact with the church,” she says.
“They will make an assessment of Christ in that, and so I’ve been trying to hold the prayer that, whatever I’ve done or said, somehow Christ will be seen in it, or at least I won’t get in the way of that.”
Revealing a glass half full attitude that may stand her in good stead in the potentially fraught times ahead, Elizabeth Jane Holden “Libby” Lane, whose husband is the chaplain at Manchester airport, stresses that she would “much rather travel with people than confront them”, but insists that that “doesn’t mean I won’t face up to difficult choices or decisions when they have to be made”.
Aware that her appointment has been greeted with dismay by traditional elements within the church, Lane – who attended Manchester School for Girls and St Peter’s College, Oxford – stresses that “I genuinely think diversity is better than being monochrome, even when that makes us uncomfortable. A bit of discomfort is good for us.”
The documentary suggests that the Manchester United fan, who was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, in 1966, believes that nurturing the next generation is a vital part of the church’s role.
“My family didn’t go to church when I was growing up. I was invited to a youth group by a friend when I was 11, to the church in the next village along from where I lived. I was absolutely captivated from the first time that I went. I went the first week and enjoyed it and I came back and the fact that the second week the vicar and members of that congregation remembered my name and things about me made a huge impression on me.”
It was the start of Lane’s journey through the ranks of the Church of England, where she has served the dioceses of York and of Chester.
“They welcomed me into the extended family of that church and included me as an adolescent,” she recalled. “They loved me into faith and they undoubtedly nurtured my sense of vocation.”
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has praised Lane’s appointment and hinted that her temperament makes her ideally suited for the role. “Her Christ-centred life, calmness and clear determination to serve the church and the community make her a wonderful choice,” Welby said.
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Confused North Korea accuses Berlin film festival of 'terrorism'
North Korea has backtracked on its outraged statement accusing the Berlin film festival of “terrorism” for agreeing to show The Interview at this year’s event. In fact, Pyongyang appears to have confused the film festival, which commences on 5 February, with Germany’s domestic release schedule: The Interview is due out in cinemas across the country the same day.
The North Korean statement read: “The screening of the movie that hurts the dignity of the supreme leadership of North Korea and openly agitates state-sponsored terrorism has nothing to do with the ‘freedom of expression’ touted by Germany. It is evidently agitation of terrorism quite contrary to the purpose and nature of the Berlin International Film Festival.”
It continued: “The US and Germany should immediately stop the farce of screening the anti-North Korean movie at the film festival. Those who attempt at terrorist acts and commit politically-motivated provocations and those who join them in violation of the sovereignty and dignity of North Korea will never be able to escape merciless punishment.”
Festival head Dieter Kosslick was reportedly forced to meet with the North Korean ambassador to Germany to explain. A spokesperson told Variety the situation was now resolved and Pyongyang understood the comedy was not being screened at the Berlinale.
North Korea’s ire over The Interview, which depicts the assassination of Kim Jong-un by two bumbling American journalists (Seth Rogen and James Franco), proved no laughing matter for Sony when a group linked by the FBI to Pyongyang began releasing embarrassing private emails online, as well as five upcoming movies, following a cyber attack in December. The studio appeared to bow to threats of further revelations when it cancelled the film’s theatrical release, but was later forced into a U-turn after Barack Obama went public to suggest executives should not have caved into the demands.
The Interview has since gone on to make more than $45m via on demand and a limited US release in cinemas, and could even be on course to recoup the lion’s share of its $75m budget. It arrives on Netflix in the US this weekend, the streaming site presumably having paid a premium for the rights, and is scheduled to debut in German, Dutch, British and Brazilian cinemas over the next three weeks.
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