Movies recommended by Stephen Colbert
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3 Favorite “Kurt Russel Tank Top Movies”

Stephen Colbert lists his 3 picks in this made-up category.
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
Stephen Colbert lists his 3 picks in this made-up category.
Movies from Stephen Colbert

Tolkien

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
It was a peak moment for me. (I repeatedly mispronounce “Tolkien”) The movie is beautiful.
Movies from Stephen Colbert

Snowden

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
Anyone see this @Snowden movie yet? I’m gonna watch it the way it was meant to be seen—illegally downloaded from the studio’s servers.
Movies from Stephen Colbert

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
Words we’ve learned in the 365 days since Trump was elected: Emoluments Scaramucci Local Milk People Covfefe Ragnarok (admittedly, not Trump-related, but that movie ruled)
Books from Stephen Colbert

Fear

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD RUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Explosive.”—The Washington Post “Devastating.”—The New Yorker “Unprecedented.”—CNN “Great reporting...astute.”—Hugh Hewitt THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL ITWith authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day details, dialogue and documentation, Fear tracks key foreign issues from North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, NATO, China and Russia. It reports in-depth on Trump’s key domestic issues particularly trade and tariff disputes, immigration, tax legislation, the Paris Climate Accord and the racial violence in Charlottesville in 2017. Fear presents vivid details of the negotiations between Trump’s attorneys and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, laying out for the first time the meeting-by-meeting discussions and strategies. It discloses how senior Trump White House officials joined together to steal draft orders from the president’s Oval Office desk so he would not issue directives that would jeopardize top secret intelligence operations. “It was no less than an administrative coup d’état,” Woodward writes, “a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful county in the world.”
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
Wow, this Bob Woodward book is nuts.
TV Shows from Stephen Colbert

Russian Doll

Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
I loved watching the #SOTU tonight. It was my favorite episode of "Russian Doll."
Restaurants from Stephen Colbert

Husk

Husk
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
“Husk ($$$) has fantastic fried chicken skin and a watermelon salad that’s really delicious. I like that everything there is focused on being from south of the Mason-Dixon Line.”
Cafes from Stephen Colbert

Hominy Grill

Hominy Grill
Stephen Colbert
Writer, TV Host
He gets that or the catch of the day at Hominy Grill.