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Category Archives: Literature

Batman: Private Casebook

January 5, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Collecting DETECTIVE COMICS #840-845, plus a story from the INFINITE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, this hard-hitting new BATMAN volume pits The Dark Knight and guest-star Zatanna against the new Ventriloquist and […]

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Skyfall

January 4, 2013by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. James Bond’s loyalty to M is […]

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Film, Literature

Tank Girl: The Odyssey

January 3, 2013by The Thorn 2 Comments

Tank Girl: The Odyssey, by Peter Milligan and Jamie Hewlett 8.0 What a nice surprise: ‘Tank Girl: The Odyssey’ is a book that I didn’t expect to like, but did. […]

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About a Boy

December 31, 2012by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary) is simply brilliant in this comedy hit the critics are hailing as “Hilarious!” (Premiere). Will Lightman (Grant) is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor […]

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The Ice Harvest

December 27, 2012by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton lead an all-star cast in this hilarious and unpredictable thriller that critics are calling “very funny stuff” (Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper). When […]

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American Psycho

December 26, 2012by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancée (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, […]

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War of the Worlds

December 20, 2012by The Thorn 2 Comments

Synopsis: An earth-shattering adventure that both “rivets and amazes” (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune), War of the Worlds reunites superstar Tom Cruise and Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg for one of […]

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The World According to Garp

December 18, 2012by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: Robin Williams is Garp. He’s got a funny way of looking at life. When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original American […]

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Film, Literature

X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl

December 17, 2012by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: It’s hard to keep a good girl down… especially when she’s Dead! After a brief hiatus caused by their deaths, everyone’s favorite mutants are back! And this time, they’re […]

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Barbarella

December 15, 2012by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelly and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The Setting is the planet […]

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Film, Literature

Human Target: Final Cut

December 13, 2012by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: In the psychological thriller HUMAN TARGET: FINAL CUT, Christopher Chance, a unique bodyguard that assumes the identity of the person that he is protecting, finds himself caught in a tangled web […]

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Marvel 1602

December 7, 2012by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary:  All’s not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange storms are brewing and strange new powers are emerging! Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, […]

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Human Target

November 30, 2012by The Thorn 2 Comments

Summary: Christopher Chance has made a living off of making himself a human target. A master of disguise, he cunningly takes on the appearance and persona of men and women […]

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