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Tag Archives: Drama

Angels in America

July 11, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Academy Award-winners Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in a 6-hour HBO Films Event. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Tony Kushner based […]

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Television

Romance

July 10, 2013by The Thorn 5 Comments

Synopsis: With cool precision and stunning intimacy, Catherine Breillat’s ROMANCE paints a provocative portrait of a young French woman, Marie, and her journey to gain control of her life.  Marie’s […]

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Film

Squadron Supreme: The Pre-war Years

July 9, 2013by The Thorn 1 Comment

Summary: It all starts here! Hyperion, Nighthawk, Blur, Power Princess, Doctor Spectrum and the rest of the deadliest super-team around are joined by a new group of super heroes, as […]

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Literature

Ai no Korīda

July 8, 2013by The Thorn 5 Comments

Synopsis: Still censored in its own country, In The Realm Of The Senses (Ai no corrida), by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all […]

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Film

Les fruits de la passion

July 6, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Hong Kong, 1920: To please her decadent lover, a beautiful young British woman submits to a life of sexual slavery in an Asian brothel. Subjected to the depraved fetishes […]

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Film, Literature

Hana to hebi (1974)

July 4, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Shizuka (pink film starlet, Naomi Tani) is the aristocratic wife of Senzo Toyama, the president of a large company. Repulsed by her husband, she enlists her lifelong maid to […]

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Film, Literature

Batman: Earth One

July 3, 2013by The Thorn 1 Comment

Summary:  Batman is not a hero. He is just a man. Fallible, vulnerable, and angry. In a Gotham City where friend and foe are indistinguishable, Bruce Wayne’s path toward becoming […]

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Literature

Eugénie

July 2, 2013by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: Esteemed author Albert Radeck is the toast of the Berlin literati and the object of his stepdaughter Eugenie’s affections. However, when his doe-eyed little darling unmasks her sophisticated father […]

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Film, Literature

Babe

July 1, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: A Little Pig Goes a Long Way Academy Award winner and Best Picture nominee Babe is the inspirational story of a shy Yorkshire piglet who doesn’t quite know his […]

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Film, Literature

Eugenie

June 30, 2013by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: Marie Liljedahl (the luscious star of Inga) is Eugenie, an innocent young woman taken to an island paradise where she is initiated into a world of pleasure and pain […]

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Film, Literature

Building Stories

June 29, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s […]

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Histoire d’O

June 28, 2013by The Thorn 7 Comments

Synopsis: The masterpiece of sexual obsession. Cinema’s original sin returns with its shocking portrait of sexual submission from master of erotica Just Jaeckin (Emmanuelle, Lady Chatterly’s Lover). A stunning young […]

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Film, Literature

Du levande

June 27, 2013by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: YOU, THE LIVING is about the human being, about her greatness and her miserableness, her joy and sorrow, her self-confidence and anxiety. A being at whom we want to […]

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