https://mrqe.com Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:19:38 +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/my-ain-folk-m100065780/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/my-ain-folk-m100065780/ When Jamie’s maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated – Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/my-childhood-m100028828/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/my-childhood-m100028828/ The first part of Bill Douglas’ influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-’40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape – he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars – and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

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