Martha Plimpton – MRQE

“Raising Hope”

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

James “Jimmy” Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for support in raising the child.

“Town Called Malice, A”

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

Set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, A Town Called Malice follows the Lords, a crime family of petty thieves from South London, as they decamp from London to Spain to profit from an unexpected windfall and to escape the attention of the police in a high-profile murder enquiry.

“Real O’Neals, The”

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

A contemporary take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed. Instead of ruining their family, the honesty triggers a new, messier chapter where everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real.

Daybreak (TV)

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

When a substantial portion of the nation’s populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.

Independent’s Day (TV)

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

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.

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 Defenders: Payback (TV)

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

Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, “The Defenders.” After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.

The Defenders: Taking the First (TV)

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

A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimony against the other three. Then, in a turnaround, the family of the murdered boy hires the Prestons to try to get a conviction against the racist.

Chantilly Lace (TV)

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

A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.

Sovereign

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

Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is something you take. But, as Jerrys ideology consumes them, they are set on a collision course with a police chief who has spent his life upholding the rules that Jerry has spent his tearing down.