James Merendino – MRQE

Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2

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

Punk’s Dead, the sequel to 1999 cult hit SLC Punk, is a punk romp through the Utah hinterlands. Ross, Penny and Crash, young outsiders from different tribes, embark on a road trip to a huge punk show. Ross, 19, is the love child of Trish and Heroin Bob, who died before Ross was born. During their odyssey, and with the help of a healthy dose of drugs, alcohol and punk music, Ross shreds his darkly Gothic outlook and embraces life. His mother Trish, who raised Ross alone in her steam punk shop, discovers that he is in a crisis. She recruits his ‘uncles,’ Bob’s old SLC gang, to help find him. When all collide at the concert, they are forced to deal with their unresolved relationships with Bob.

Hard Drive

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

Sexual encounters and criminal mayhem occur when two people meet via their computers.

Magicians

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A con-man and a wannabe professional magician team up with a waitress and an old professional on their way to Vegas.

Trespassing

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

A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.

Amerikana

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter’s cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris’ high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.

SLC Punk!

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.

Toughguy

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

Traumatized after witnessing her jealous husband kill her adulterous lover and then himself, an unbalanced, nymphomaniac young woman finds herself stalked by an unknown assailant, but she cannot make anyone believe her desperate situation.

The Upstairs Neighbour

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

Fear grows as a Los Angeles novelist witnesses his duplex neighbor conduct what looks like a human sacrifice.