Renée Asherson – MRQE

The Magic Box

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

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

The Others

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

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

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

Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his satanic power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar’s palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left… to destroy him before he destroys them all.

Malta Story

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

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer’s romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.

Pool of London

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

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

The Way to the Stars

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

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France

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

In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.