Global Spin’s weekly guide to five rental movies that will bring you up to speed with with the past week’s global events. Compiled by Tony Karon and Ishaan Tharoor.
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Hotel Rwanda
The point about genocide movies like Hotel Rwanda is to reinforce a message of “never again!” Well, …
Here is Global Spin’s latest installment rounding-up movies that tell you the week’s news. Suffice to say, it’s been a dark, gloomy seven days. Compiled by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon.
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The Grave of the Fireflies
In the wake of the catastrophic 9.0 magnitude …
Global spin’s weekend selection of five rental movies to bring you up to speed on the past week’s events. Prepared by Tony Karon and Ishaan Tharoor
Red Dawn
No movie did better in turning American Cold War paranoia into a box office bingo than 1984’s Red Dawn – made for just $4 million, …
Compiled by Tony Karon and Ishaan Tharoor
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Downfall
The movie to watch apropos Libya this week is one you’ve seen before. Well, not the whole movie, but the scene of Hitler berating his generals as they break the news to him that the Red Army is closing in on …
1. Lion of the Desert
To understand the awesome courage of the long-suffering Libyans standing up to fight the tyrant Muammar Ghaddafi, there’s no better source than Moustapha Akkad’s Lion of the Desert. The film lionizes (sorry!) legendary Libyan guerrilla commander Omar Mukhtar, who …
