Mary Elizabeth Ellis – MRQE

“Grinder, The”

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

Television lawyer Dean Sanderson moves back to his small home town after his hit series, “The Grinder,” is canceled thinking his time on TV qualifies him to run his family’s law firm.

Red One

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security must team up with the world’s most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

Licorice Pizza

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

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

“Man on the Inside, A”

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home.

Godmothered

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

A young and unskilled fairy godmother that ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored. What she discovers is that the girl has now become a grown woman in need of something very different than a “prince charming.”

Origin Story

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

When Kulap Vilaysack was 14, she took her father’s side in an argument and her mother replied, “Why are you defending him? He’s not your real dad.” Twenty years later, she’s finally ready to learn what that means. ORIGIN STORY is a feature-length, international quest with stops in Los Angeles, Minnesota, and Laos to meet the biological father she never knew. On the road, unforeseen revelations strike as hilarious or heartbreaking, rarely in between. An avid comic book reader with a vigilante character named after her in the DC Comics universe, she must summon the courage of Katharsis, because each question is another step out on a limb. ORIGIN STORY is a deeply personal but universally relevant tale of immigration, conflict, addiction, and personal responsibility. Interviewees in the film include extended family, husband Scott Aukerman, and close friends, like Sarah Silverman, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael and Howard Kremer.

Masterminds

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

A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.

The Last Time You Had Fun

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

When Ida, cheeks streaked by mascara tears, unexpectedly shows up at her sister’s, the staid Alison bargains her way out of mom duty for the night and the two head off to an Eastside wine bar. There, they run into Will and the freshly divorced, sweatpants-attired Clark. After some slightly inebriated commiserating about mismanaged marriages and other adult concerns, the foursome head out into the night, careening from downtown lofts to pot dispensaries to midnight swims and back again, determined to prove they still have what it takes to have a good time.

Well Enough Alone

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A one night stand on the rocks with a twist.

A Quiet Little Marriage

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins intense and profound, raw feature debut is laced with sly humor, exquisitely rendered characters, and a pitch-perfect emotional honesty.