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 …
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are using rape as a weapon of war. In a statement released Thursday, she says the United States is “deeply concerned” about reports of “wide-scale” rape in the Libyan conflict. Citing the International Criminal Court’s findings and the case of Eman al Obeidi, she …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 — …