https://mrqe.com Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:58:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/bread-and-roses-m100065901/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/bread-and-roses-m100065901/ Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women’s ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/bread-and-roses-m100065901-2/ Fri, 15 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/movie/bread-and-roses-m100065901-2/ Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women’s ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/bad-blood-m100060148/ Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/bad-blood-m100060148/ During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/meet-the-feebles-m100059376/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/meet-the-feebles-m100059376/ Heidi, the star of the “Meet The Feebles Variety Hour” discovers her lover Bletch, The Walrus, is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder. Meanwhile the love between two of the stars is threatened by Trevor the Rat, who wishes to exploit the young starlet for use in his porno movie.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/middle-age-spread-m100079209/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/middle-age-spread-m100079209/ Colin is the deputy principal of a city high school (Avondale College, Auckland) who reluctantly applies for the principal’s job on the latter’s retirement. Colin’s wife, Elizabeth – who is losing interest in him -gives a dinner party. Among the guests is Judy, temporarily reconciled with her husband for the sake of the children. Colin – who has taken upon jogging to combat a spreading waistline – and Judy, gradually enter into an affair.

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