Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Rating: 3 stars

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly

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Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

Reaching out beyond the screen

Television has ceased to be the idiot box, it is now more than just a medium of entertainment; we cannot override it as a medium of social influence.  Anita, a 38 year...

REPORTERO

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In Mexico, investigative journalism can be a life-threatening profession. A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsw...

SHAHID

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True story of slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice. From...

HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE

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This documentary follows two bloggers on their journalistic road trips across China. They denounce social abuses using mobile phones, c...

SALMA

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Poignant portrait of well-known Indian Tamil poet Salma. She spent twenty-five years of her life behind closed doors, at first in her e...

CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE

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Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-hyuk was raised in a world where all he knew was pun...

WASTELAND – SO THAT NO ONE BECOMES AWARE OF IT

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About 40,000 refugees, including families with children, live sometimes about more than ten years in camps throughout Germany, usually ver...