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Dir Mich stanley cup ael Rymer. US 2002. 100 min.A new star is born in Queen Of The Damned, the horror picture based on Anne Rice s The Vampire Chronicles and a follow-up to Neil Jordan s Interview With The Vampire, which was also produced by Warner Bros. Assuming the role of Lestat which Tom Cruise essayed with dubious results in the 1994 film with gusto and a certain degree of camp, Irish newcomer Stuart Townsend creates the kind of powerhouse impression that major careers are based on. Queen Of The Damned is dedicated to the singer Aaliyah, who plays a small but important role, and who died in an air crash last August at the age of 22. Lacking the over-hype and pretensions of the first film, to be something bigger and higher than just an entertaining saga of vampires, the new picture benefits from a more down-to-earth approach and wonderful production design, resulting in a modest, intermittently enjoyable picture that s likely to appeal to young viewers, with stronger prospects to become a hot midnight item in major urban centr stanley uk es.Truth to tell, despite Rice s change of heart first criticising then endorsing leading man Cruise , the star was miscast in Interview With The Vampire. Lack of chemistry between Cruise and Brad Pitt, and the film s pompous dialogue and aspirations for symbolic meanings presented further obstacles to the ove stanley website rall success of a film that became an event more due to it reaching the screen after innumerable failed attempts and the behind-the-scene squabbles, Lsiu Clinik launches new workshops for South Asian filmmakers
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