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Tag Archives: Biography

Female Misbehavior

July 18, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Female Misbehavior is a collection of five films which explore the outer limits of female sexuality and behavior. Each film features a woman who has challenged the status quo, […]

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Exposed

July 11, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a taboo art form, Burlesque, and driving it […]

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Behind the Burly Q

July 4, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Burlesque was one of America’s most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy, bawdy and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of paying […]

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Bettie Page Reveals All

June 27, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Mori’s Bettie Page Reveals All is an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, told in her own words for the […]

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The Wild Oats Project

June 12, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: What if for just one year you let desire call the shots? The project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move into a San Francisco apartment, […]

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Literature

Jeffrey

June 10, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Steven Weber stars as Jeffrey in this adaptation of Paul Rudnick’s witty stage play about the New York gay experience in the HIV era. Distressed by the AIDS epidemic, […]

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Midnight Blue: Porn King

May 30, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: A Compelling, Fair-Handed Portrait Of A Complex Individual Who Is Intelligent And Compulsively Self-Destructive. Al Goldstein, larger than life smut peddler, made a fortune with his satirical sex tabloid […]

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Film, Television

The Surrender

March 27, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Few women do it and even fewer will admit to it. But in Toni Bentley’s daring and intimate memoir, The Surrender, she pulls the sheets back on an erotic […]

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Literature

Commando

September 20, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Raised in Queens, New York, Johnny Ramone founded one of the most influential rock bands of all time, but he never strayed from his blue-collar roots and attitude. He […]

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Literature, Music

I Love You Phillip Morris

September 18, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: A story so incredible, it could only be true. Jim Carrey stars in the wildly outrageous tale of a spectacularly charismatic con man’s journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant […]

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Film, Literature

The Pythons Autobiography

September 5, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: An oral history of the Pythons (incorporating archive material of Graham Chapman), that is filled with more than 1,000 photos from the group’s archive, as well as from the […]

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Literature

The Unknown Marx Brothers

August 26, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: A unique look at film’s most original comedy legends. On Your Marx, Get Set, Go!! Experience the hopes, dreams, triumphs and defeats of the brothers simply known as Groucho, […]

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Film, Television

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

August 15, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: The five surviving members of Monty Python have spent the last 20 years dismissing a reunion as ‘absolutely impossible’. Now, it seems, they’ve changed their minds… In this special […]

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