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Ender’s Game

May 22, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: As fears of an alien invasion grow, Earth’s International Fleet recruits an unlikely leader – a young and brilliant boy – to command its forces and fight for the […]

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Film, Literature

RoboCop (2014)

May 15, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Crime has a new enemy in this “sleek, stylish and smart” (Silas Lesnick, ComingSoon.net) action-thriller starring Joel Kinnaman, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton! In the year […]

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RoboCop (1987)

May 11, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: There’s a new law enforcer in town… and he’s half man, half machine! From the director of Total Recall and Basic Instinct comes a “sci-fi fantasy with sleek, high […]

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Film

Head

May 10, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: “A Hard Days Night on acid” best describes this outrageous movie within a movie starring recording superstars The Monkees. The first in a long line of films for collaborators […]

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Film, Music, Television

Demolition Man

April 30, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: The 21st century’s most dangerous cop; The 21st century’s most dangerous criminal In 2032 archcriminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a […]

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When the Wind Blows

April 7, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Raymond Briggs’ now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way. *********************************************************************** When the […]

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Literature

The Adventures of Superhero Girl

April 4, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores and have a weakness for kittens? […]

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Literature

The Handmaid’s Tale

April 3, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: With a “cool eroticism, intelligence and intensity” (Playboy), this eerie futuristic thriller, based on Margaret Atwood’s controversial and critically acclaimed best-selling novel, is filled with “large themes and deep […]

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Film, Literature

Children of Men

April 1, 2015by The Thorn 14 Comments

Synopsis: The Year 2027: The Last Days of the Human Race No Child Has Been Born for 18 Years He Must Protect Our Only Hope No children. No future. No […]

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Film, Literature

Soylent Green

March 19, 2015by The Thorn 4 Comments

Synopsis: It’s the year 2022… People are still the same. They’ll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green. Soylent Green is landmark screen science-fiction, a […]

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The Omega Man

March 18, 2015by The Thorn 2 Comments

Synopsis: The last man alive… is not alone! Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools […]

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Film, Literature

Pokazatelnyy protsess: Istoriya Pussy Riot

March 8, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Filmed over the course of six months, this film tells the incredible story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia. As members of the feminist art collective Pussy […]

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Film, Music

Escape from L.A.

March 5, 2015by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Snake is Back The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what […]

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