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The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town

December 15, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: For five groundbreaking seasons, Canadian-bred comic prodigies THE KIDS IN THE HALL stretched sketch comedy to its ultimate limits with hilariously off-the-wall results. Now they’ve returned with THE KIDS […]

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Television

The Wicked + The Divine, vol. 2

December 9, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: The critically-lauded best-selling hyphen-abusing series of stardom, divinity, and death returns with a second volume that’s even grander than the first, because it contains six issues instead of five. […]

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Literature

Pāfekuto burū

December 5, 2017by The Thorn 4 Comments

Synopsis: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually-charged […]

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Film, Literature

The House of Exorcism

December 4, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) encounters the Devil himself (Telly Savalas) while vacationing in Toledo, Spain. Recognizing in her the soul of a damned spirit that escaped him, the […]

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Film

Lisa e il diavolo

December 4, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: While visiting Toledo, Spain, American tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) experiences a feeling of déjà vu when she sees an ancient mural of the Devil carrying away the dead. […]

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Film

The Wicked + The Divine, vol. 1

December 2, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Young Avengers and […]

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Literature

La casa con la scala nel buio

November 28, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti of NEW YORK RIPPER) is hired to compose a new horror movie and rents an isolated villa to concentrate on his work. But when several beautiful […]

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Film

Macabro

November 21, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: In this horrific tale of murder, madness and perverse passion, a New Orleans wife and mother carries on a torrid affair behind her family’s back. But when a violent […]

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Film

The Fade Out, Act Three

November 19, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: The final act of the bestselling Hollywood noir comic from the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips! *********************************************************************** The Fade Out, Act Three, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips […]

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Literature

House of the Long Shadows

November 14, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Horror legends Vincent Price (The Oblong Box), Christopher Lee (The Crimson Cult), Peter Cushing (Madhouse) and John Carradine (The Sentinel) star as the screen’s greatest gruesome foursome! When a […]

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Film, Literature

Ecologia del delitto

November 13, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: What begins as a simple giallo about greed and murder at a secluded bayside estate soon explodes into an odyssey of carnage that would single-handedly trigger the entire ‘body […]

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Film

The Fade Out, Act Two

November 12, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS’ newest hit series, THE FADE OUT is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end […]

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Literature

Cadavre exquis

November 5, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Zoe isn’t exactly the intellectual type, which is why she doesn’t recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment . . . and into his life. […]

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