Michael Tucker – MRQE

A Town Torn Apart (TV)

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

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great controversy. A true story.

Day One (TV)

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

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

Gone in a Heartbeat (TV)

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

When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm – they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.

Vampire (TV)

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

Vampire Anton Voytek’s lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it’s been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.

Cold Souls

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

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of ‘Uncle Vanya’ and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their servicesonly to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.

“L.A. Law”

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

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.

Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco’s trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff.

The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

‘Til There Was You

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

Gwen Moss (Jeanne Tripplehorn), a writer hired to pen a book about former child star Francesca Lanfield (Sarah Jessica Parker), moves to the apartment complex that the actress owns. While Gwen struggles with her love life or lack thereof, Francesca becomes involved with handsome architect Nick Dawkan (Dylan McDermott), who is working on a project that will mean the destruction of the apartments. Eventually, Gwen and Nick meet, and there’s an undeniable chemistry, despite their differences.

D2: The Mighty Ducks

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

After Gordon Bombay’s hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame and must regather if the Ducks are to defeat tournament favourites Iceland.

“Tracey Takes On…”

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

Tracey Takes On… is a sketch comedy series starring comedienne Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the 1993 comedy special “Tracey Ullman Takes on New York.” Each episode focuses on specific subject in which Ullman and her cast characters comment on or experience through a series of sketches and monologues.

Checking Out

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

When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray’s life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.