Linda Hunt – MRQE

American Playhouse:: Waiting for the Moon (TVE)

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

Fictionalized portrait of one of history’s great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.

Dune

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

In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Arrakisthe only place where the space-travel substance Melange ‘Spice’ can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it’s only so he can stage a coup with some unsavory characters.

The Relationtrip

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

After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a friend trip where things get weird. Really, really weird.

If Looks Could Kill

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

Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. He is beseiged by both the good guys and the bad guys. British Intelligence outfits him with a series of James-Bond-like gizmos, and Steranko sends more would-be assassins after him. Can Michael stop the evil Steranko’s plans for European domination?

The Singing Revolution

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

Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. “The young people, without any political party, and without any politicians, just came together … not only tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands … to gather and to sing and to give this nation a new spirit,” remarks Mart Laar, a Singing Revolution leader featured in the film and the first post-Soviet Prime Minister of Estonia. “This was the idea of the Singing Revolution.” James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty’s “The Singing Revolution” tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom–and helped topple an empire along the way.

The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn (TV)

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the division of the atom that changed the future. The show traces the development of nuclear science in the first half of the twentieth century, Meitner’s early struggle for education and her quest to gain a foothold in the world of male-dominated physics, Hahn’s initial research and independent discoveries, the collaborative discovery of the two scientists, as co-discoverers and the award of the Nobel Prize only to Hahn.

Island of the Sharks

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A magnificent expedition 300 miles west of Costa Rica spotlights the remote animal sanctuary of Cocos Island. Its amazing underwater world has some of the ocean’s most-feared, most-misunderstood predators. Manta rays, barracudas, giant sea turtles, porpoises and hundreds of sharks swim past on the giant IMAX screen.

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (V)

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When news of John Smith’s death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. However, Governor Ratcliffe is still around; he wants to return to Jamestown and take over. He will stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.

The Relic

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

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End

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

Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off Massachusetts family, Monette grows up unable to accept his homosexuality, for years hiding it from his loved ones while struggling to develop as a writer. In 1978, Monette publishes his first novel, which allows him to come out to his parents. After losing one lover to AIDS in 1986, he becomes a ferocious advocate for awareness of the disease.