Salome Jens – MRQE

Savages

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

A tribe of primitive “mudpeople” encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.

Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, providing the killer virus with a famous face amidst the American AIDS paranoia of 1985. 2010 is not only the 25th anniversary of his death but would also have been his 85 birthday. The film investigates the many film roles Rock Hudson played, against the more intimate and private world of Roy Fitzgerald.

Coming Out Under Fire

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

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII veterans.

Seconds

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

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity one that comes with its own price.

Just Between Friends

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don’t know however that they have more in common than they’d like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.

Me, Natalie

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

Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother’s encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.

The Fool Killer

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful “Fool Killer” of folklore.

Angel Baby

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

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South – she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.

Terror from the Year 5000

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

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be “traded” for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor’s been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?