https://mrqe.com Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:48:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/encore-m100002118/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=96908 Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; “Winter Cruise”, helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; “Gigolo and Gigolette”, directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-man-inside-m100017432/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-man-inside-m100017432/ A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there’s more to the case than just theft.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/sapphire-m100029460/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sapphire-m100029460/ Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects — including the girl’s white boyfriend and his disapproving parents — the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-informers-m100045395/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-informers-m100045395/ When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-league-of-gentlemen-m100014680/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-league-of-gentlemen-m100014680/ Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/trio-m100016492/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=96914 W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-browning-version-m100061619/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-browning-version-m100061619/ Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school’s students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life’s work.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-mackintosh-man-m100051414/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-mackintosh-man-m100051414/ A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang…

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/tales-from-the-crypt-m100045265/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tales-from-the-crypt-m100045265/ Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-executioner-m100023761/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=70535 A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.

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