Nigel Hawthorne – MRQE https://mrqe.com Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:31:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Nigel Hawthorne – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 “Mapp & Lucia” https://mrqe.com/movie/mapp-and-lucia-tv-m100012302-2/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/movie/mapp-and-lucia-tv-m100012302-2/ Mapp & Lucia is a British television comedy, based on E. F. Benson’s novels, beginning with the eponymous 1931 entry for series 1, with Lucia’s Progress and Trouble for Lucia for series 2.

Mrs Emmeline Lucas (nicknamed Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss Mapp has led (and controlled) the social life of Tilling, but that was before they met Lucia.

]]> A Tale of Two Cities (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/a-tale-of-two-cities-m100117330/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-tale-of-two-cities-m100117330/ Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton’s undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

]]> “Barchester Chronicles, The” https://mrqe.com/movie/barchester-chronicles-the-tv-m100051867/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/barchester-chronicles-the-tv-m100051867/ Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope’s world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by the authenticity of the period detail, the portrayal of all the characters accurately conveys the whole range of human emotions within the stories.

]]> “Mapp & Lucia” https://mrqe.com/movie/mapp-and-lucia-tv-m100012302/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/mapp-and-lucia-tv-m100012302/ Comedy, set during the 1930s, of social rivalry between two women in a small English town. New arrival Lucia (Geraldine McEwan, as Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas) creates challenges to the established local social dominance of Miss Elizabeth Mapp (Prunella Scales).

]]> “Yes Minister” https://mrqe.com/movie/yes-minister-tv-m100064477/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=13921 Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

]]> Call Me Claus (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/call-me-claus-m100044938/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=46591 When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets more than she bargained for.

]]> At Sachem Farm https://mrqe.com/movie/at-sachem-farm-m100020734/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=50655 Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine collection to finance a new venture, his uncle hatches a plan to remind Ross of the talent he left behind.

]]> The Clandestine Marriage https://mrqe.com/movie/the-clandestine-marriage-m100060187/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-clandestine-marriage-m100060187/ A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.

]]> A Reasonable Man https://mrqe.com/movie/a-reasonable-man-m100066301/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-reasonable-man-m100066301/ With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

]]> Tarzan https://mrqe.com/movie/tarzan-m100046578/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tarzan-m100046578/ Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…

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