Brendan Maher – MRQE

Kidnapped (TV)

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

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he’s lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie’s unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

Doom Runners (TV)

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

In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their quest for sanctuary.

The Road from Coorain (TV)

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

A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.

Wide Sargasso Sea (TV)

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

Dramatisation of Jean Rhys’s novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.

Sisters of War (TV)

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

Sisters of War is a World War II memoir that re-creates events in New Britain during the Japanese invasion and occupation. It is a story about the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, especially Sister Berenice Twohill and her working friendship with nursing sister, Lorna Whyte. The Australians pulled out of the mission in Vunapope outside Rabaul, leaving the nurses and wounded who took refuge there. They were captured and about to be executed when Bishop Leo Scharmach MSC bluffed the Japanese by saying that he was the representative of Hitler and his people could not be executed.

Return to Nim’s Island

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

Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she cant depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend Edmund, whos run away to the island from the mainland to save her home.