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Tag Archives: Politics

Diavolo in corpo

July 21, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: One of the most controversial Italians films of the 80s, Devil in The Flesh takes Raymond Radiguet’s classic novel and updates it to modern times. Dealing with the legacy […]

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The Dreamers

July 18, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: From Academy Award winning director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor, 1987), comes an erotic tale of three young film lovers brought together by their passion for movies-and each other. […]

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The Holy Mountain

July 1, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The […]

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Die Another Day

May 29, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) pulls out all the stops to take you on an unforgettable, adrenaline-pumping ride across the globe in this action-filled adventure! From a dark cell in a […]

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Lifeboat

May 24, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Nominated for three Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock’s World War II drama, is a remarkable story of human survival. After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight […]

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Don’t Drink the Water (1969)

May 20, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

  Synopsis: They Think He’s a Spy. He Thinks They’re Out of Their Vulgarian Minds. Only the mind of Woody Allen could cook up a New Jersey caterer whose vacation […]

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The Sound of Music

May 12, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Share the magical, heartwarming true-life story that has become the most popular family film of all time – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews lights up […]

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Chew, vol. 7

April 22, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: Presenting a new storyline of the New York Times Best Selling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winner series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Tony Chu – the cibopathic […]

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Chew, vol. 6

April 12, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: While Tony Chu – the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats – clings to life in a hospital ICU, his twin […]

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Literature

Don’t Drink the Water (1994)

April 10, 2014by The Thorn 2 Comments

Synopsis: They couldn’t wait to get in. Now it’s hilarious trying to get out! Ever-popular favorites Michael J. Fox (Mars Attacks!, The American President) and Woody Allen (Small Time Crooks, […]

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The Last Mogul

April 9, 2014by The Thorn 2 Comments

Synopsis: “If Hollywood was Mount Olympus,” says movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti in Barry Avrich’s The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman “then Lew Wasserman was Zeus.” […]

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The Brothers Warner

April 7, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Of All The Major Studios, One Was Family. Of the major studios, one was family. Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack- the Warner brothers- turned a storefront that used a sheet […]

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Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

April 4, 2014by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: From Columbia Pictures to Warner Brothers, the studios that gave rise to the Hollywood empire were all founded by innovative Eastern European immigrants and first-generation American Jews. Called “a […]

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