Joe Maggio – MRQE

The Last Rites of Joe May

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

Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. Returning to his old neighborhood in Chicago’s ‘Patch’ district, he finds his car gone, all his worldly possessions pawned by his landlord, and the apartment he’s lived in his entire adult life rented out to a single mother and her eight-year-old daughter.

Bitter Feast

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

A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.

Paper Covers Rock

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

Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.

Milk and Honey

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

Over one night in New York City, lives of disparate strangers intersect by fate and circumstance.

Virgil Bliss

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

Fresh out of a long stretch in prison, Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) vows to go straight in this gritty, character-driven drama. But finding a job, a wife and a sense of purpose doesn’t come easy when you’re living in a halfway house surrounded by junkies and thugs. Things start to look up when Virgil falls for Ruby (Kirsten Russell), a prostitute and fellow lost soul, but her drug addiction stands in the way of his shot at a normal life.