Kenneth Cranham – MRQE

Killing Hitler (TV)

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

A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

“Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The”

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

A farmer (Toby Stephens) becomes increasingly attracted to a woman (Tara Fitzgerald) who wants to leave her alcoholic husband (Rupert Graves).

Dead Man’s Folly (TV)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an “expert”, a real murder occurs.

On Dangerous Ground (TV)

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

Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn’t be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.

“Chimera”

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of man and ape.

Mr. Jones

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalins forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruinthe policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

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

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

“Hatton Garden”

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

The story of the audacious jewellery, gold and cash burglary at the heart of London’s diamond district executed by an elderly gang of career criminals across the Easter Bank Holiday weekend in April 2015.

Closed Circuit

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect, and the attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe as special advocate on his defence team. On the eve of the trial, the accused’s attorney dies and a new one, Martin Rose, steps in. Martin and Claudia are former loversa fact which must remain hiddenand, as Martin assembles his case, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy that places him and Claudia in danger.

Flying Blind

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

Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.