Roger Spottiswoode – MRQE

Under Fire

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

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Murder Live! (TV)

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

Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter’s suicide.

And the Band Played On (TV)

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

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Ice Bound (TV)

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

It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the “Polies”: Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace).

Third Degree Burn (TV)

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

A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.

Noriega: God’s Favorite (TV)

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

The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.

A Street Cat Named Bob

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

James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

The Children of Huang Shi

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

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Shake Hands with the Devil

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

Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and is less geared to drama and emotional manipulation, but it is still grim and upsetting.

Ripley Under Ground

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

After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend’s name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.