QUEEN
OF THE DAMNED (2002)
Legendary Vampire Lestat has risen from a decades-long slumber, determined
to step out into the light. No longer content with being banished to the
shadows, moving among mortals who never truly see him for what he is,
Lestat has reinvented himself as the closest thing to a god on Earth:
a rock star.
THE
QUIET AMERICAN (2002) Review by Darrel Manson: Leaving the theater after watching The Quiet
American, I was struck by how timely it seemed, even though the story
is set more than fifty years ago and was written nearly that long ago
(published 1955). Seeing the film while we stand on the verge of war with
Iraq gave a certain urgency to this film.
QUILLS
(2000)
Darrel
Manson reviews: "How could anyone be as cruel as the Marquis de Sade?
Certainly he was a sick and depraved man -- an aberration -- unlike men
and women of refinement, right? Quills is a look at the way cruelty plays
out in many relationships. Sometimes it is seen as inappropriate. Other
times we overlook the cruelty because it seems so appropriate -- or even
natural..."
