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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Garbage: One Mile High… Live

February 15, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: After a five year break, 2012 saw Garbage back in the spotlight with a new studio album Not Your Kind Of People followed by their first world tour for […]

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Music, Television

Down With Love

February 14, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Renee Zellweger (Chicago), Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge) and David Hyde Pierce (TV’s Fraiser) star in the most stylish romantic comedy of the year! When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak […]

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Fred the Clown

February 14, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Fred the Clown’s rambunctious misadventures are a curious blend of bleakness and joyful absurdism, More often than not, they involve the pursuit of a lady – any lady will […]

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Literature

Send Me No Flowers

February 13, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Screen legends Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall team up for this irresistible comedy gem from director Norman Jewison (Moonstruck). When he overhears a doctor discussing the imminent […]

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Film

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

February 13, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Jason Vorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for another fierce fling. Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes […]

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Film

Ed the Happy Clown

February 12, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the much-lauded Paying for It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within […]

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Literature

Lover Come Back

February 11, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: All is fair in love and advertising. Rock Hudson and Doris Day are together again! Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who […]

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Film

The Little Man

February 10, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 is a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to […]

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Literature

Pillow Talk

February 9, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: It’s the delightful romantic comedy that started it all! Rock Hudson and Doris Day, two of the screen’s most popular and enduring stars, are together for the very first […]

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Film

Blondie: Live at CBGB 1977

February 8, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: This 47-minute piece of video vérité captures an iconic band and front woman on the rise playing in their natural habitat: New York’s legendary CBGB. Director Rod Swenson was […]

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Literature, Music

The Strain, vol. 2

February 7, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: A vast conspiracy has made it nearly impossible for the CDC’s Dr. Ephraim Goodweather to convince the world that there’s a vampiric epidemic spreading across Manhattan. His only hope […]

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Literature

Alien: Resurrection SE

February 6, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Witness the resurrection. Two hundred years have passed since Ripley made the ultimate sacrifice on Fiorina 161. But over the years, and after seven horrific failures, scientists have finally […]

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Film

Dim Sum Funeral

February 5, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: An Irish funeral has a wake, a Jewish funeral has sitting Shiva, but a traditional Chinese funeral has something else entirely – which is what the estranged siblings of […]

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