John McMartin – MRQE

Citizen Cohn (TV)

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.

Ritual of Evil (TV)

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

A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.

Day One (TV)

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

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

Roots: The Gift (TV)

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

On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

Thieves

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

Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin’s the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they’re meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that’s cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.

Dream Lover

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

After she’s been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results.

Separate But Equal (TV)

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

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

A Shock to the System

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an “accident” for his annoying wife. Then he creates another “mishap” for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham’s oysterbut a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.

Who’s That Girl

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

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he’s asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

Native Son

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

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.