Cynthia Martells – MRQE

A Child’s Cry for Help (TV)

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother’s access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don’t agree with her diagnosis or think that she’s over-reacting. And even while the mother’s not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?

Zooman (TV)

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

Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer’s name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though dozens of neighbors saw the unintentional shooting, no one is willing to come forward with information. Life goes on, a killer goes free, and one grieving, broken father (Louis Gossett Jr.) is forced to take his cry for justice to the media, hoping to spark a confrontation with his daughter’s murderer. Charles Dutton and CCH Pounder costar in this powerful original drama.

Where Are My Children? (TV)

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

Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.

Broken Trust (TV)

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

A scrupulously honest judge finds he’s a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.

“Strange Luck”

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, “If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed.” Harper’s strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.

Paid in Full

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

Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace’s fall.

A Modern Affair

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Modern Affair is an independent feature directed by Vern Oakley and produced by Tribe Pictures. Starring Stanley Tucci and Lisa Eichhorn, the film’s plot reverses the conventions of romantic comedies: instead of man meet woman – fall in love, marry and have baby, in this film the woman gets pregnant, then meets the father, then falls in love. Grace Rhodes (Lisa Eichhorn) is a lonely, successful executive whose biological clock is loudly ticking.