James Fox – MRQE

The Lost World (TV)

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle’s character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger’s more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.

Colditz (TV)

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

Marple: The Body in the Library (TV)

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

Miss Jane Marple (Geraldine McEwan) investigates the connection between two mysterious deaths.

The Old Curiosity Shop (TV)

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

1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell’s grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn’t sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell’s grandfather.

Surviving Christmas with the Relatives

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.

A Long Way from Home

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out the rest of their days as if they were permanently on holiday. But retirement is not what Joseph imagined, and when he meets a young, attractive woman, Suzanne, everything he thought he knew about himself and his world is turned upside down.

Anna Karenina

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

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

Wide Blue Yonder

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

An anti-authority rogue in an old folks’ home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend’s dying wish to be buried at sea.

W.E.

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

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

“Gulliver’s Travels”

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dr. Gulliver has returned from his journey to his family after a long absence – and tells them the story of his travels.