Movie & TV News

[Rasputin]

Running With Scissors (2006)

In 1971, the neatness-obsessed but sharply observant 6-year-old Augusten finds himself trapped between his troubled parents: his mother Deirdre, an unpublished--not to mention unstable--confessional poet with delusions of being hugely famous; and his father Norman, an alcoholic math professor who long ago gave up trying to solve the riddle of his wife's problems or his son's precocious behavior. When...

Genres: Drama and Adaptation

Running Time: 120 min.

Release Date: October 20th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: R for strong language and elements of sexuality, violence and substance abuse.

Distributors: TriStar Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Cross
Directed by: Ryan Murphy
Produced by: Steve Samuels, Brad Grey, Ryan Murphy

[Rasputin]

Deliver Us From Evil (2006)

Moving from one parish to another in Northern California during the 1970s, Father Oliver O'Grady quickly won each congregation's trust and respect. Unbeknownst to them, O'Grady was a dangerously active pedophile that Church hierarchy, aware of his predilection, had harbored for over 30 years, allowing him to abuse countless children.

Genres: Documentary

Running Time: 1 hr. 41 min.

Release Date: October 13th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Distributors: Lionsgate
Cast and Credits

Starring: Monsignor Cain, Oliver O'Grady, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, Nancy Sloan, Marie Jyono
Directed by: Amy Berg
Produced by: Ray Baldwin, Michael Brown (XI), Tom Ortenberg

[persian_king]

Good felassn Forest Gump, Dances With Wolves, Ben Hur

[Rasputin]

49 Up (2006)

In this seventh installment in his "Up" series, filmmaker revisits the subjects whom he has been tracking throughout their lives so as to compare the different lives that individuals lead. Every seven years his subjects are checked in on and chronicled. In this latest chapter, more life-changing decisions are revealed, more shocking announcements made, and more of the original group take part than...

Genres: Art/Foreign, Documentary, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Biopic

Running Time: 2 hrs. 15 min.

Release Date: October 6th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Distributors: First Run Features
Cast and Credits

Directed by: Michael Apted
Produced by: Michael Apted, Claire Lewis, Karen Stockton

[Rasputin]

One Night With the King (2006)

An epic adventure that follows a young Jewish orphan who rises from peasant to Queen of Persia only to face the annihilation of her people.

Genres: Drama, Romance and Adaptation

Running Time: 2 hrs. 2 min.

Release Date: October 13th, 2006 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributors: Gener8Xion Entertainment

Cast and Credits

Starring: Tiffany Dupont, Omar Sharif, John Rhys-Davies, Luke Goss, Peter O'Toole
Directed by: Michael O. Sajbel
Produced by: Matthew Crouch, Stephan Blinn, Richard J. Cook

[Rasputin]

Infamous (2006)

What starts out as the irreverent journey of the openly gay writer Truman Capote to the middle-class world of 1950's Kansas, where he goes--with his childhood friend Harper Lee--to research the murder of the Clutter family, turns to something altogether darker when Capote forms an intense and complex relationship with one of the murderers. In doing so, he produced his greatest work, "In Cold Blood,"...

Genres: Drama, Adaptation and Biopic

Running Time: 1 hr. 58 min.

Release Date: October 13th, 2006 (NY/LA)

MPAA Rating: R for language, violence and some sexuality.

Distributors: Warner Independent Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels
Directed by: Doug McGrath, Dogulas McGrath
Produced by: John Wells, Christine Vachon, Jocelyn Hayes

[Rasputin]

Love's Abiding Joy (2006)

Based on the novel by Janette Oke, grandparents Clark and Marty are reunited with their daughter and her family. Their hope and faith are tested, however, by an unforeseen tragedy.

Genres: Drama, Western and Adaptation

Running Time: 2 hrs.

Release Date: October 6th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: PG for mild thematic elements.

Cast and Credits

Starring: Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew
Directed by: Michael Landon Jr., Michael Landon Jr
Produced by: Larry Levinson (II), Robert Halmi Sr, Robert Halmi Jr

[Rasputin]

Pulse (2006)

High speed data transfers, super wide-band, wifi--this is the wireless landscape. Huge volumes of information are traveling through the air. As we continue to explore these frequencies, we expose ourselves to realms we didn⿿t even know existed. We only fear what we can touch, hear, see or taste, but there is potentially so much more out there. What if our wireless technologies made a connection to...

Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Remake

Running Time: 1 hr. 27 min.

Release Date: August 11th, 2006 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violent and disturbing images.

Distributors: The Weinstein Company , Dimension Films

Cast and Credits

Starring: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Samm Levine, Rick Gonzalez
Directed by: Jim Sonzero
Produced by: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Mike Leahy

[Rasputin]

Shortbus (2006)

An urban dramedy that follows a varied group of seven people, among them a dominatrix and a sex therapist, as they navigate between the paths of sex and love in modern day New York City.

Genres: Comedy and Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.

Release Date: October 4th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Distributors: ThinkFilm

Cast and Credits

Starring: Sook Yin Lee, Lindsay Beamish, Raphael Barker, Jay Brannan, Justin Bond
Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell
Produced by: Wouter Barendrecht, Michael J. Werner (II), Alexis Fish

[Rasputin]

Aurora Borealis (2006)

Duncan Shorter is charming and bright and has never met a job from which he couldn't be fired. His buddies are growing up and beginning lives of responsibility, but Duncan is still looking for that spark. It arrives from a most unexpected corner. Visiting his grandmother Ruth's new senior residence, Duncan jumps at the chance to become the building's handyman. It will keep him close to his grandfather...

Genres: Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.

Release Date: September 15th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: R for language.

Distributors: Regent Releasing
Cast and Credits

Starring: Joshua Jackson, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Donald Sutherland, Steven Pasquale
Directed by: James Burke (IV)
Produced by: Scott Disharoon, Rick Bieber, Jayne Amelia Larson

[Rasputin]

Confetti (2006)

Mockumentary charts the journey of three couples as they battle it out to win the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year.

Genres: Comedy and Romance

Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.

Release Date: September 15th, 2006 (limited)

MPAA Rating: R for scenes of nudity.

Distributors: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox International

Cast and Credits

Starring: Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Jimmy Carr, Alison Steadman, Felicity Montagu
Directed by: Debbie Isitt
Produced by: David M. Thompson, Joe Oppenheimer (II), Oliver Edwards

[Rasputin]

The Descent (2006)

One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for their annual caving trip. Deep below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes when a rock falls and blocks their route back to the surface. The girls soon learn that Juno, the thrill-seeking leader of the expedition, has brought them to an unexplored cave and that as a result no knows where they are to...

Genres: Art/Foreign and Suspense/Horror

Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.

Release Date: August 4th, 2006

MPAA Rating: R for strong violence/gore and language. .

Distributors: Lionsgate

Cast and Credits

Starring: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Produced by: Paul Smith (XVI), Christian Colson, Paul Ritchie

[Rasputin]

Crank (2006)

Chev Chelios is about to begin his morning with an unexpected wake-up call. Groggy, practically unable to move and with a heart that's barely beating, he hears the voice of thug Ricky Verona, who reveals Chev has been poisoned in his sleep and only has an hour to live. As it turns out, Chev is a hit man who freelances for a major West Coast syndicate. A run of the mill job the night before instead...

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy and Thriller

Running Time: 1 hr. 23 min.

Release Date: September 1st, 2006 (wide)

MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality, nudity and drug use.

Distributors: Lionsgate

Cast and Credits

Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Jay Xcala
Directed by: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Produced by: David Scott Rubin, Eric Reid (III), Michael Paseornek

[Rasputin]

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runaway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly--the most powerful woman in fashion--Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the...

Genres: Comedy, Drama and Adaptation

Running Time: 106 min.

Release Date: June 30th, 2006 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sensuality.

Distributors: 20th Century Fox

Cast and Credits

Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Tracie Thoms
Directed by: David Frankel, Murphy Occhino
Produced by: Karen Rosenfelt, Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr, Wendy Finerman

[Rasputin]

Gabrielle (2006)

The events that overwhelm a middle-aged, seemingly happily married couple. The arrogant, bourgeois M. Hervey descends from a train into the teeming bustle of the city. While on his way home, he reflects on the sturdiness of his life: the success he has made of it, and the fortress of security he has built around himself. It is not long before his self-satisfaction is rudely shattered when he discovers...

Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama and Adaptation

Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min.

Release Date: July 14th, 2006 (NY)

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Distributors: First Take (IFC)

Cast and Credits

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Pascale Greggory, Thierry Hancisse, Claudia Coli, Chantal Neuwirth
Directed by: Patrice Chereau
Produced by: Joseph Strub, Serge Catoire, Ferdinanda Frangipane