Alessandro Nivola – MRQE

Fantasy Life

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters. The girls’ mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she’s in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport as well as a shared history of mental illness. Sam joins Dianne’s family to babysit for the summer on Martha’s Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.

Wildcat

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Follow the life of writer Flannery O’Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.

The Wizard of Lies (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff’s family.

“Big Cigar, The”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton enlists an unlikely allyHollywood producer Bert Schneiderto elude an FBI manhunt and escape to Cuba.

Kraven the Hunter

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kraven Kravinoff’s complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

The Room Next Door

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Boston Strangler

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

Operation Brothers

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.

The Art of Self-Defense

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.

Weightless

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Apart from a few simple houses, a bar, a gas station with a mini supermarket and a garbage dump, there really is nothing in rural Fulton County, Georgia. Introverted Joel works at the garbage dump where he sometimes finds a useful glass bottle or two, which he cleans up and takes home. Then, one day, he receives an unexpected phone call: his ex-wife has disappeared and it is now his responsibility to look after their son. Joel, about to meet his son for the very first time, has no idea how he is going to build a relationship with 10-year-old Will who also seems to live in a world of his own. Luckily for them, Clara, a bright girl from the neighbourhood, is on hand to help, and Will begins to open up to his father. But the youth welfare officer is already banging on the door. Director Jaron Albertins directorial debut is a sensitive, slightly melancholic drama about two outsiders who discover a deep understanding of each other.