Benedict Cumberbatch – MRQE

The Thing with Feathers

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

A young father hold on reality crumbles following his wifes death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. This mysterious creature, known as Crow, seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.

“Patrick Melrose”

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

The Roses

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

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.

Small Island (TV)

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

As adapted from the bestselling 2004 novel of the same name by Andrea Levy, the miniseries Small Island observes the experiences of two very different married couples – one Jamaican, the other British – whose lives intersect at a point in post-WWII England when the relationship between their parent countries is about to irrevocably change. David Oyelowo and Naomie Harris star as Gilbert and Hortense, Jamaican immigrants who wed in a marriage of convenience and must battle bigotry and intense social rejection from the British on a daily basis. All that they really want is to be proud and happy subjects at the United Kingdom, when it would be easy to feel resentment and fury given the circumstances: many of their fellow countrymen are the descendants of Jamaicans who had been forcibly enslaved to the British Empire in an earlier era. Meanwhile, the couple’s married English landlords, Bernard (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Queenie (Ruth Wilson) are still rebounding from the experience of a lengthy wartime separation. Queenie projects an unusual attitude toward Gilbert and Hortense, given her lack of bigotry and unquestioning acceptance, but this ironically threatens to create more problems than it solves. Shot in location in Northern Ireland, this miniseries originally aired on the BBC in England, and ran on PBS in the United States, via WGBH’s popular Masterpiece Theatre program.

The Child in Time (TV)

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

A successful writer of children’s books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkablehe loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate’s absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

Brexit: The Uncivil War (TV)

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

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea (TV)

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

On a rainy day, a mother and daughter forego a trip to the park to bake pastries and partake in a two-person tea party when an unexpected guest menacingly invites himself into the house and ransacks the food and drink in the house.

“Last Enemy, The”

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

Stephen Ezard’s search for the truth about the death of his brother Michael catapults him into an international conspiracy and a passionate love affair.

“Eric”

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A desperate father battles his demons on the vibrant, dangerous, and intoxicating streets of ’80s New York in a race to bring home his missing son.

The End We Start From

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

As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.