Genre: Horror
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis: Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson and cult icon Bruce Campbell star in this frightening horror film about Heather (Bruckner) a neglected teenager who is sent away to an all-girls private school located deep in the middle of a forest. Watched over by a sinister head mistress (Clarkson) and her staff, Heather is tormented by her classmates and desperate to go home. Something tells her there's something sinister out there in the woods and it won't be letting her leave any time soon.
Genre: Thriller
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
In the sexy and sleek psychological thriller Basic Instinct 2, after re-locating from San Francisco to London, best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) once again finds herself on the wrong side of the law.
Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey), a respected London criminal psychiatrist, is brought in by Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis) to perform a psychiatric profile and evaluation of Tramell following the mysterious death of a top sports star. Physically drawn to Tramell and mentally intrigued by her, Glass, against the advice of his mentor, Dr. Milena Gardosh (Charlotte Rampling), is quickly sucked into her web of lies and seduction. The professional boundaries between Glass and Tramell are obliterated when she uncovers his basic instincts. A deadly battle of wits ensues, climaxing as Glass faces a choice that will change both their lives forever.
Genre: Crime
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
From the creator of Training Day comes Harsh Times, a gritty look at friendship, loyalty and ambition set on the extremely rough streets of south central Los Angeles.
Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike (Freddy Rodriguez).
Mike is feeling the heat from his longtime girlfriend, Sylvia (Eva Longoria): either get a job or get out. But the love of a beautiful woman can't compare to the bonds of friendship, and Jim and Mike are soon cruising the streets of South Central, slipping back into a deceitful life of drugs, violence and petty crime, just like when they were kids.
Without a moral compass to guide them, it is only a matter of time before these two misguided friends get lost along a destructive and explosive path from which there is no turning back.
Christian Bale (Batman Begins), Freddy Rodriguez ("Six Feet Under") and Eva Longoria ("Desperate Housewives") star in Harsh Times, written and directed by David Ayer (Training Day, The Fast and the Furious)
Genre: Thriller
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
Lucky Number Slevin is a thriller that twists and turns it's way through an underworld of crime and revenge.
Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenius plot to get them... Before they get him.
Also starring Lucy Lui, Lucky Number Slevin is directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Jason Smilovic.
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis: From Academy Award-winner Irwin Winkler comes Home of the Brave, the story of four American soldiers nearing the end of their tours of duty in Iraq. Shortly after learning their unit will soon return home, they are sent on one final humanitarian mission to bring medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. The unit is ambushed and takes heavy losses. The surviving troops suffer both physical and psychological injuries. Now, as they return to the United States, four soldiers must face memories of the past as they look towards the future and return to civilian life. These are their stories. Home of the Brave is about hope and courage and the impact of war on both the individuals who fight it and the people close to them.
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj is the sequel to the successful 2002 release, National Lampoon's Van Wilder. Taj (Kal Penn), Van Wilder's assistant in the first film, heads out on his own and heads to England's prestigious Camden University to further his studies. Along the way, he adopts a group of misfits and shows the uptight student body how to get Wilder!
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis: Art School Confidential follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist, like his hero Picasso. Unfortunately, the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an anything-goes art class. Neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers. But Jerome does attract the attentions of his dream girl, the stunning and sophisticated Audrey (Sophia Myles), an artist's model and daughter of a celebrated artist. Rejecting the affectations of the local art scene, Audrey is drawn to Jerome's sincerity. When Audrey shifts her attention to Jonah (Matt Keeslar), a hunky painter who becomes the school's latest art star, Jerome is heartbroken. Desperate, he concocts a risky plan to make a name for himself and win her back.
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
Never before have so many done so little and been so raucously funny doing it. In Clerks II, New Jersey mini-mart clerks and best friends Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) are forced to find new jobs in the fast-food universe - and they're bringing their in-your-face attitudes, outrageous vulgarities and unbridled love of screwing with the customers with them.
Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) pushes his nothing-is-sacred humor right to the edge and then takes a leap as Dante and Randal invade the world of Mooby's fast food restaurant, where the slogan is "I'm Eating It." Behind the counter, where the only other employees are an uber-nerd (Trevor Ferhman) and an entirely too sexy manager (Rosario Dawson), Dante and Randal are free to offend anybody and everybody who so much as orders fries in their inimitably irreverent way.
But, even as riotous debates rage between them over such burning matters as George Lucas v. Peter Jackson v. Jesus, change is on the horizon. When Dante announces that he's going to leave Jersey forever and marry Emma Bunting (Jennifer Schwalbach), Randal plots a going-away party so shocking it will draw the police, the fire department and possibly even protests from PETA, while altering their lives forever. It also features the triumphant return of Leonardo, New Jersey's inimitable duo Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith).
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff play wealthy Los Angeles celebutantes Tanzie and Ava Marchetta, who live in a whirlwind of glamour and notoriety. Ava is about to announce her engagement to TV hunk Mic Rionn (pronounced "Mike Ryan") while Tanzie harbors secret dreams of following her late father Vincent Marchetta into chemistry.
Real trouble for the two Marchetta sisters descends when a consumer reporter reveals that participants in a test study for Marchetta's Everdew formula suffered life-long disfigurement and scarring from the product. In the ensuing chaos of the scandal, Marchetta stock takes a drastic drop and the girls' assets are frozen. Since the girls have no discernible practical skills, they have left the running of the business to Tommy Katzenbach (Brent Spiner), who urges the girls to sell the company to Fabiella (Anjelica Huston), their father's arch-rival. But Ava senses something fishy about the offer and is determined to find out what's going on.
Penniless, the Marchetta sisters will have to do the detective work themselves. But the girls have glimpsed the truth about their predicament and will use every trick they've learned, and some that just come naturally, to unmask the culprit, and reclaim the future they want for themselves.
Genre: Thriller
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis: Based on a true story, prepare to relive the terrifying rampage of the Hillside Strangler as Psychiatrist Samantha Stone (Brittany Daniel: White Chicks, Joe Dirt, Club Dread) interviews Kenneth Bianchi (Clifton Collins Jr.: Mindhunters, Tigerland, The Rules of Attraction) to try and decipher the motivations behind his frightening reign of fear.