https://mrqe.com Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:59:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/scum-m100081244/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/scum-m100081244/ A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. [This is the original version scheduled for broadcast on ‘Play for Today’ on 8-Nov-1977 but withdrawn by the BBC because it was deemed too controversial. Director Alan Clarke edited the film and released it in cinemas in 1979 (See ‘Scum (1979)’). The BBC would eventually broadcast the original on 27-Jul-1991.]

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/screen-two-contact-m100087415/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/screen-two-contact-m100087415/ A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/scum-m100058356/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/scum-m100058356/ Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys’ struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain’s notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].

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