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Tag Archives: Crime

Temptation of Eve: Good Wife

August 10, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: In this sexy and provocative drama based partially on Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon, film director Jin Young meets an attractive woman and spends the night with her. When he […]

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Film, Television

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – Director’s Cut

August 9, 2016by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: It is the 23rd century. The Federation starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) seems resigned to the fact that this […]

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Film, Television

Caligula

August 8, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Caligula may very well be the most controversial film in history. Only one movie dares to show the perversion behind Imperial Rome, and that movie is Caligula, the epic […]

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Film

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

August 4, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Feeling that the future holds nothing close to what the past once did, Admiral James T. Kirk begins to believe that galloping around the cosmos is a game for […]

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Film, Television

Nightcrawler

July 30, 2016by The Thorn 4 Comments

Synopsis: Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers […]

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Film

Gradiva (C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle)

July 27, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: A highly erotic, gothic mystery, in the style of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, from Alain Robbe-Grillet, writer of the Oscar nominated Last Year in Marienbad and director of the notorious Trans […]

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Film, Literature

Black Rock

July 23, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Not every island is a paradise. Three young women – Sarah (Kate Bosworth), Abby (Katie Aselton) and Lou (Lake Bell) – get together for a private campout at one […]

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Film

Star Trek: Stardate Collection, vol. 1

July 19, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: The comic book tales of Star Trek have roamed the universe and spanned publishers, but now Star Trek: The Stardate Collection collects the many iterations of Trek in order… […]

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Literature, Television

The Lobster

July 16, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: In a dystopian future where individuals are not allowed to be without a mate, David (Colin Farrell) has just been left by his wife. As a result, he must […]

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Film

Earth 2: World’s End, vol. 1

July 14, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: In the infinite vastness of the Multiverse there exists a world much like our own, with heroes and villains different from the ones we know, yet strangely familiar. Together, […]

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Literature

Bang bang wo ai shen

July 13, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Sink into a world of erotic and psychedelic pleasures… Ah Jie lost everything in the stock due to a severe economic crisis. He spends his days in his sealed […]

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Film

War Games, Act 3

July 12, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Written by Ed Brubaker, Bill Willingham and others Art by Sean Phillips, Pete Woods and others Cover by James Jean The final volume of WARGAMES collects BATMAN #633, BATGIRL […]

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Literature

Skandalon

July 10, 2016by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: “Skandalon,” found in the Gospels, refers to a persistent trap or obstacle, such as the one that confounds the mesmerizing, Jim Morrison-like lead character Tazane. He is a true […]

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Literature

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