Rhona Mitra – MRQE

Doomsday

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

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britaininfecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Prisoners of Paradise

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Love was their greatest rebellion. Set on the enchanting island of Mauritius in 1925, recently orphaned Lucy is sent to live with her charming but controlling uncle. When she defies his plans to marry her off for financial gain, she falls deeply in love with Krishna, a handsome local worker. But the world has other plans, and Lucy and Krishna must risk everything and defy the forces determined to tear them apart. Starring Ellie Bamber (William Tell, The Serpent), Rhona Mitra (Hollow Man, Red Sonja), Rupert Penry-Jones (Match Point, Spooks), Mehdi Dehbi (Messiah). Directed by Mitch Jenkins (A Million Days, The Show). Based on the book Prisoner of Paradise inspired by the lives of Alan and Maria Govinden and written by Romesh Gunesekera.

A Kid in Aladdin’s Palace (V)

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Calvin, a young pizza delivery boy, is mistaken for the “Great Deliverer” by Aladdin, an eighth century genie imprisoned in a lamp. Thinking that the boy is his only hope for deliverance, the genie lures him back to the eigth century where he must join forces with Ali Baba in order to save Aladdin from the evil hands of Luxor.

Eddie Izzard: Glorious (V)

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

Eddie Izzard’s routine has a loose trajectory from the beginning of the Old Testament and the creation of the world in seven days to Revelations. Along the way, we learn of the search for a career, bad giraffes, Prince Philip’s gaffes, toilets in French campsites, the mysteries of hopscotch, becoming one’s Dad and tranny bashing.

“Practice, The”

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

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show’s forte is its storylines about people who walk a moral tightrope.

Spartacus (TV)

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

Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome’s status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.

Hounds of War

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

After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.

The Other Me

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

The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he’s diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.

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