background color problem and text alignment problem

My page so far can be seen here:

http://immeldesign.com/test/archiveTest.html

As you can see I'm making a movie site. My problem is the horizontal light colored bars. Right now I'm calling them through the text attribute archiveTitle. I couldn't figure out a way to make them move all the way across the whole width of the box without using tons of  . Does anyone have a easier way I can achieve this? Thanks!