Tagline: Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future. Set in the 1930s on the beautiful Italian Riviera, A Good Woman is an elegant, witty, romantic comedy based on Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan.” A young couple’s marriage is put in jeopardy by high-society gossip of an affair blossoming. Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers)…
Category: Period Films
An American Haunting (2006)
Tagline: Possession knows no sounds. Based on “The Bell Witch: An American Haunting” by Brent Monahan. Known throughout Tennessee as “Old Kate,” the Bell Witch took up residence with John Bell’s family in 1818. It was a cruel and noisy spirit, given to rapping and gnawing sounds before it found its voices. With these voices…
All the King’s Men (2006)
Tagline: Time brings all things to light. Absolute power corrupts absolutely in writer – director Steven Zaillian’s (“Schindler’s List”) adaptation of Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel “All the King’s Men” featuring an all-star cast led by Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins. “All the King’s Men” charts the spectacular…
Bandidas (2006)
Set in Mexico during the 1850s, the film tells the story of Sara Sandoval (Salma Hayek) and María Álvarez (Penélope Cruz). María is an uneducated, poor farm-girl whose caring father is being forced off his land by a cruel U.S. land baron, named Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam). Sara is the highly educated, wealthy daughter of…
The Black Dahlia (2006)
The Black Dahlia is set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two cops, Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and his partner, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart), investigate the death of Elizabeth Short, a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy…
BloodRayne (2006)
Tagline: Driven by revenge. In 18th century Romania, Rayne (a girl with a human mother and vampire father) possesses superhuman strength but a soft side for humans. She decides to find her vampire father who is the powerful vampire Kagan. On her journey, she is befriended by two vampire hunters and learns that there are…