Stephen Spinella – MRQE

“Education of Max Bickford, The”

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a college professor of American Studies at Chadwick College, an all-women’s school in New Jersey. Also starring was child actor Eric Ian Goldberg, who portrayed the young Lester Bickford, Max’s son. Max’s colleagues included Marcia Gay Harden as Andrea Haskell, his former student who had recently joined the faculty, and Helen Shaver as his best friend Erica, previously known as Steve before her transition. Max’s daughter Nell, played by Katee Sackhoff, attended the college.

House of Dust (2012/I)

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

College students exploring an abandoned insane asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients. Inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they’re soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One is a convicted serial killer from 1950.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

The Lennon Report

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

The events on the night John Lennon was killed, seen through the eyes of those who lived it. The great men and women of NYC who did all they could to save a life, some without even knowing it was John Lennon himself. Based on a true story.

Rubber

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

A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a “film” set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.

And Then Came Love

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

Successful New York journalist and single mom Julie Davidson’s (Vanessa Williams) six-year old son Jake (Jeremy Gumbs) is acting up, so she finds his sperm-donor father Paul Cooper (Kevin Daniels), who’s a struggling actor and law-school drop-out.

Connie and Carla

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city’s dinner theater circuit … disguised as drag queens. Now, it’s not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff — a guy she’d like to be a woman with.

Bad Education

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the students education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.

Ravenous

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

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide — a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

The Unknown Cyclist

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

A man’s dying wish is for the people in his life to participate in a 450-mile charity bicycle ride through Northern California.