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Tag Archives: Drama

A Simple Plan

February 26, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Sometimes Good People Do Evil Things. The American Dream. In a gym bag. That’s how three men size up what they’ve found in the snowy Minnesota woods. They’ve come […]

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In the Loop

February 23, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Peter Capaldi stars as a foul-mouthed British government spokesman who must act quickly when a mid-level minister (Tom Hollander of Pirates Of The Caribbean) tells an interviewer that U.S. […]

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Film, Television

The King’s Speech

February 22, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Find your voice. When England’s throne is suddenly thrust upon him, amidst royal family scandal and impending world war, King George VI (Colin Firth, Oscar nominee, Best Actor) must […]

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Harold and Maude

February 15, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: A classic cult film that features one of the screen’s most unlikely pairs. It will defy everything you’ve ever seen or known about screen lovers. Bud Cort is Harold, […]

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Higher Learning

December 3, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Question The Knowledge Kristy Swanson, Omar Epps and Michael Rapaport star as first-term freshmen who get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality in writer/ director John Singleton’s […]

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Cooking With Stella

December 2, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: When Canadian diplomat Maya (Lisa Ray) and her stay-at-home husband, Michael (Don McKellar), are relocated to exotic New Delhi, they inherit a household of Indian servants ruled by the […]

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Stories of Lost Souls

November 30, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: What defies expectations leads to the unpredictable. In the spirit of The Twilight Zone, Stories of Lost Souls is a hard hitting presentation of six short stories of conquest, […]

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Antares

November 29, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Austria’s Oscar selection for Best Foreign Film, Antares skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at crossroads over three momentous days. Set in a ubiquitous, concrete high-rise apartment complex […]

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Wall Street

November 26, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way […]

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Daft Punk’s Electroma

November 19, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: An odyssey of two robots who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human. This silent feature-length film made its international […]

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Starman

November 12, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman (Bridges) arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), and clones the form of […]

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Waking the Dead

November 2, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Sometimes Love Has A Life Of Its Own. “Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly give passionate performances” raves Leonard Maltin of Playboy Magazine, about this story of love, ambition, and […]

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Halloween II (2009)

November 1, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Rob Zombie’s H2 (Halloween) picks up at the exact moment that 2007’s box-office smash, Halloween stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers’s (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the […]

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