Couch Potato Briefing

Couch Potato Briefing: Submarines and Subversives

Your weekly installment of rental movies to watch this weekend that reflect news around the world. Presented by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon

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Traveling Players

As hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets this week to resist an economic austerity program they believe …

Couch Potato Briefing: Sex, Power and the Heroic Futility of War

Global Spin’s weekly guide to the rental movies that explain the week’s big news events

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The Alamo

A small group of brave men find themselves hopelessly outgunned, yet unwilling to surrender their ideals and their freedom, fight to the death against overwhelming odds. It’s a …

Couch Potato Briefing: Of Hackers, War Criminals and Killer Cucumbers

Global Spin’s weekly offering of five rental movies to bring you up to speed with global events, presented by Tony Karon and Ishaan Tharoor.

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Food Inc.

With more than a dozen Europeans having died this week as a result of an e-coli outbreak initially (falsely) blamed on Spanish …

Couch Potato Briefing: Memorial Day Special

This week’s roundup of rental movies to watch over the weekend commemorate Memorial Day, a day to honor the sacrifices of soldiers and reflect on the human horrors they must face. Presented by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon.

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The Thin Red Line

It’s fitting that …

Couch Potato Briefing: What to Watch While the World Ends

With the end of the world prophesied by some to begin on Saturday evening, Global Spin’s weekly guide to rental movies to brief you on world event takes on a slightly – although not exclusively – apocalyptic bent. Presented by Tony Karon and Ishaan Tharoor.

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Left Behind

Okay, …

Couch Potato Briefing: Immigrants, Idiots and Crumbling Empires

Here’s our latest installment of five rental films to watch this weekend to get you up to speed with our week in news. Compiled by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon.

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Carry On Up the Khyber

It’s a truth we’ve all read (and written about) for a while now: as grumpy as Washington …

Couch Potato Briefing: Of Navy SEALs and Terrorist Masterminds

Global Spin’s weekly menu of five rental movies to bring you up to speed with world events focuses on the only theme in this week’s headlines: The raid that killed Osama bin-Laden

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

White House squeamishness over …

Couch Potato Briefing: Journalists in Warzones

Here’s our weekly installment of films to watch over the weekend — this week, we pay homage to Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, stellar photojournalists who were killed April 20 while on assignment in Misratah, Libya.

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Restrepo

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger’s …

Couch Potato Briefing: U.S. Civil War Special Edition

In a slight departure from our usual international fare, this week’s installment of rental movies to watch over the weekend is all about the U.S. Civil War — the country marked the 150th anniversary of the war’s eruption on April 12.

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Glory

There is no more …

Couch Potato Briefing: Warlords, Peaceniks, and High-Stakes Poker

Here is Global Spin’s latest installment of five rental movies that explain the week’s news. Compiled by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon

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No Man’s Land

Haunting the build up to the U.N.-sanctioned interventions in Libya and the Ivory Coast was the specter of …

In Gaddafi’s Tripoli, Visions of Doomsday and an Endgame

Such is the hothouse atmosphere of the Rixos Hotel, where the Tripoli press corps remains imprisoned by the Gaddafi regime, that any new source of information, be it a shopkeeper in a bazaar who manages to slip out a disparaging word about Libya’s leader or a rumor of the man himself out in the streets, sends reporters into a frenzied …

Couch Potato Briefing: Covert Ops, Cricket and Learning from Lawrence

Global Spin’s five weekend movie rental recommendations to bring you up to speed on the week’s events, compiled by Tony Karon and Ishaan Tharoor.

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Charlie Wilson’s War

In a week where — thanks to the stubborn refusal of Muammar Gaddafi to disappear in a puff of eyeliner — …

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