Joe Morton – MRQE

Badland

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

Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.

Between the World and Me (TV)

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production – including powerful readings from Coates book – with documentary footage from the actors home life, archival footage, and animation.

Cleveland Abduction (TV)

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

A single mother becomes Ariel Castro’s first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

“Our Kind of People”

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

A strong-willed single mom sets out to reclaim her family’s name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line but discovers a dark secret about her own mother’s past that will turn her world upside-down.

Jasper, Texas (TV)

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

In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.

Ali: An American Hero (TV)

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

Ali: An American Hero is an American television movie which aired on August 31, 2000 on FOX. It chronicles portions of the career of heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who is portrayed by David Ramsey. Cassius Clay (David Ramsey), winner of the gold medal for boxing in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics, rises in the professional ranks and defeats heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston in a stunning upset to capture the title in 1964. Controversy surrounds his decision to join the Nation of Islam, his name change from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, his friendship with Malcolm X (Joe Morton), and his conscientious objection to the draft during the Vietnam War. Stripped of his title, he eventually recaptures it in 1974 in the so-called “Rumble in the Jungle”an epic bout against George Foreman in Zaire.

“God Friended Me”

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

A self-proclaimed “pesky atheist” is encouraged to help strangers by someone claiming to be God who friends him on Facebook.

Miss Evers’ Boys (TV)

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

The true story of the US Government’s 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.

The Walking Dead

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

Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.

The Good Mother

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter’s custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.