Mary Walsh – MRQE

Happy Place (2020/IV)

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

“Welcome to the zoo,” Samira is advised as shes admitted to an in-patient care facility in the wake of a suicide attempt. As she slowly familiarizes herself with her fellow residents and their idiosyncratic traits, a makeshift community takes shape.

The Wind in the Willows (TV)

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

Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame’s classic book.

Deaner ’89

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

Party animal Dean Murdoch travels back in time to his college days of 1989.

Sweetland

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

The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.

The River of My Dreams

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

Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 1940s to launch a storied, seven-decade career as one of the leading actors and most beloved figures in Canadian film and television.

Closet Monster

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

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

The Grand Seduction

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

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctors time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With

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

In 1947 Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Alan Hepditch, a by-the-books but squeamish and somewhat dimwitted criminologist is constantly being tormented by his fellow ranger candidates and his sergeant, Bill O’Mara. Before Hepditch can quit, O’Mara, as a sort of punishment, assigns him to his first posting at Swyer’s Harbour, where five sheep mutilations have taken place over the past year. When he arrives in Swyer’s Harbour, Hepditch has a more serious crime to investigate, that of the murder of a local, mentally slow woman named Tryphenia Maud Pottle, better known to the locals as Young Triffie.

Mambo italiano

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

When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.

Violet (2000/II)

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

It seems like everyone in Violets family dies at age 55. Her mother did, her father did, and as this movie opens Violet, played by Mary Walsh, learns that her brother, Leonard has also died. He too was 55, an age she is now fast approaching herself. His death causes Violet to begin an existential tailspin as her family gathers round. They are Andrew Younghusband who plays her son Carlos, a gay professor of languages who has returned from Montreal. Actor and director Barry Newhook plays Rex who is a musician and daughter Ramona is played by Susan Kent. As the movie unfolds it turns out that Violet has a lot to live for, including a romance with farm manager Rusty played by Peter MacNeill.