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Tag Archives: Drama

L’ostie d’chat, tome 2

September 10, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Our two friends’ misdaventures never end: Jean-Seb drowns his romantic sorrows in alcohol, falls for Natasha, a truly disgusting chick, and sleeps with Claire even though she’s off-limits. As […]

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Toni Erdmann

September 9, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Winfried doesn’t see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she’s busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn’t help […]

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Blind

September 8, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Pettersen) is a woman contending with the loss of vision. In trying to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days attempting to reconstruct the […]

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Angels and Insects

September 7, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Taken in by a wealthy family after a failed expedition to the Amazon, biologist William Adamson Rylance) wins the hand of his benefactor’s daughter (Kensit) and believes his dreams of […]

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Film, Literature

Bel Ami (2012)

September 6, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Based on Guy de Maupassant’s classic novel, this tale of temptation and obsession chronicles Georges Duroy’s (Robert Pattinson) rise to power from his meager beginnings as a penniless ex-soldier […]

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L’ostie d’chat, tome 1

September 3, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Jean-Sébastien and Jasmin share the custody of Legolas, the ever-underfoot cat. One is a recently unemployed pickup artist, the other a wannabe rocker who has just been fired from […]

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Literature

Borderline

September 1, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: An erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex and […]

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Film, Literature

Dream Lover

August 31, 2017by The Thorn 2 Comments

Synopsis: James Spader and Madchen Amick star in this “smart, diabolical thriller” (The New York Times) about a recently married man who suspects that his wife’s past is not what […]

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Lady Chatterley

August 30, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: From Ken Russell, the incendiary director of Women in Love and Altered States, comes a retelling of the literary classic that spawned the most celebrated obscenity trial of the […]

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Literature, Television

L’Apocalypse selon Magda

August 27, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: The apocalypse that was announced a year ago will finally not take place! While all of humanity is celebrating the news, Magda, 14, is devastated. Why? To understand, we […]

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Fidelio, l’odyssée d’Alice

August 25, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Thirty-year-old Alice is a sailor about to embark on a journey she will not soon forget. Leaving her fiancé Félix ashore, she joins the crew of an old cargo […]

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Two Moon Junction

August 24, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Sparks ignite into flames of passion when a socialite meets a sensual stranger in Two Moon Junction, an erotic adult drama from director Zalman King (Nine 1/2 Weeks, TV’s […]

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Felicity

August 23, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: She ain’t mama’s little girl no more. The luscious Glory Annen stars as Felicity Robinson, a sheltered teen who surrenders her blossoming body to a world of bold sexual […]

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