Jon Polito – MRQE

Death of a Salesman (TV)

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He’s about to lose his job, he can’t pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don’t respect him and can’t seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.

Mimic 2 (V)

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

When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a species of “Judas” bugs and introduced them into the environment, where they were to “mimic” the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey… humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant cockroaches are back, and this time they’ve mutated to take on human form!

Batman: Year One (V)

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

A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

The Shaggy Dog (TV)

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

Preteen Moochie Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Daniel, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the shabby sheep dog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihill who secretly trained his pet to help him steal jewels. Mooch’s big brother Wilbert ‘Wilby’ is smart, shy and a promising inventor, but hopelessly clumsy when it comes to girls, and is jealous of his slick mate Trey who has no problems. Desperate Wilby resorts to a spell from the ring of Lucrezia Borgia (he accidentally got from dad’s museum of curiosities), which magically turns him into Bundles and back at uncontrollable times. This is how he also knows that the diamond on loan in his father’s museum is Charlie’s next target.

Girls in Prison (TV)

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

Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O’Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other “lifer” inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.

The Defenders: Choice of Evils (TV)

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

The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle – the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.

The Apartment Complex (TV)

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

A graduate student named Stan becomes the manager of an apartment complex which is quite uncommon. The tenants are all quite eccentric and uncommon characters, and the place is quite run down in certain spots. The previous manager had disappeared in mysterious circumstances. When cleaning the mucky pool, Stan encounters a corpse. The odd detectives that come to investigate seem to blame him. Then more bizarre, potentially deadly occurrences happen. Soon, Stan’s life is in danger, if not his sanity. However, the odd tenants all befriend him and may be his only hope

“Chronicle, The”

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Chronicle is the name of a science fiction television series on the Sci Fi Channel. The series is based on the “News from the Edge” series of novels by Mark Sumner, a St. Louis, Missouri based author. The show was originally sold to NBC, which shot the pilot, then later found a home with The Sci-Fi Channel.

Big Eyes

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

In the late 1950s and early ’60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn’t until the Keanes’ marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.

The Contenders

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

Two guys (Davide Manuli, Tom Gallop) from Romania wash dishes in New York but dream of becoming a filmmaker and an actor.