https://mrqe.com Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:48:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/blithe-spirit-m100045625/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/blithe-spirit-m100045625/ An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he’s working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man’s present marriage.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/oliver-twist-m100063213/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/oliver-twist-m100063213/ When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin’s evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/madeleine-m100003696/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/madeleine-m100003696/ The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/great-expectations-m100010872/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/great-expectations-m100010872/ In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/a-passage-to-india-m100009766/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-passage-to-india-m100009766/ Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny’s mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/doctor-zhivago-m100022903/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/doctor-zhivago-m100022903/ The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/lawrence-of-arabia-m100029986/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/lawrence-of-arabia-m100029986/ The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/hobsons-choice-m100040750/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/hobsons-choice-m100040750/ Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot makers shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be no marriages to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-passionate-friends-m100027923/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-passionate-friends-m100027923/ A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/this-happy-breed-m100016828/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/this-happy-breed-m100016828/ In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.

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