Samuel Bottomley – MRQE

Anemone

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Explore the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons.

California Schemin’

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the late ’90s, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd had their musical ambitions consistently ridiculed for having the ‘wrong’ accents, so they went for broke and reinvented themselves as Californian rappers. The duo re-recorded their own tracks with fake accents and turned up in London claiming to be an established duo on the Cali scene as well as childhood friends with Eminem. They quickly bagged themselves a record deal, a hefty sum in advances, and an appearance on MTV… until it all came crashing down.

“Ladhood”

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

When did it all go wrong? Liam, who parties too hard and disappoints his girlfriend, turns to his teenage years for answers. A funny, frank evaluation of how lads become men.

The Last Rifleman

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

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

How to Have Sex

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

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holidaydrinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

Sundown

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

When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.

Running Naked

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

The friendship of cancer survivors Ben and Mark is tested when a piece of news forces each character to change their perspective. Old wounds are opened as they discover their true selves.

The Last Right

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

Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Ireland to attend his mothers funeral, Daniel also checks on his autistic brother. What follows is an unconventional road trip with his brother and the mortuary assistant as they take the coffin from Clonakilty to Rathlin Island.

“Coldwater”

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man in the midst of a mid-life crisis moves his family to a remote Scottish village, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous friendship with a sinister neighbour.

Tyrannosaur

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

The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph’s life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.