Peter Wight – MRQE

Best Laid Plans (V)

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

Danny (Stephen Graham) uses his huge, mentally impaired friend, Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), in underground cage matches to pay off a debt to a gangster.

The Brides in the Bath (TV)

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

Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (TV)

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

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his homosexuality in 1950s Britain. This film follows his life and eventual death based on the many diaries he kept

“Hit and Miss”

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

An assassin with a secret, Mia’s life is changed forever by a letter from her ex.

Scanners III: The Takeover (V)

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

A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her father. Her brother, who is also a scanner, is the only one powerful enough to stop her.

“Titanic”

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

A heart-wrenching journey through Titanic’s last moments, featuring both fictional and historical characters, ranging from steerage passengers and crew to upper class guests and staff.

Heidi (2005/I)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Swiss girl Adelheid ‘Heidi’ is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She’s sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she’ll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.

“Early Doors”

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

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, The Grapes, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.

Uncle Vanya

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

An adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play about human frailty, in which secret loves and long-held resentments threaten to tear a family apart. The film is a recorded performance of an award-winning production of Anton Chekhov’s classic play at the Harold Pinter theatre in London, made shortly after the show was shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lucky Break

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

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he’s transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison’s outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy’s feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy’s breakout performance?