http://www.post-gazette.com/movies/ Movie news, reviews and features, Family Film Guide en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:40:22 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10253/1086381-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml TORONTO -- In Pittsburgh, the opener on Sunday means only one thing: Steelers vs. the Atlanta Falcons. Here, the opener on Sunday also means one thing: TIFF Bell Lightbox will throw wide its doors and welcome the public for free tours and a block party in honor of the new five-story home of the Toronto International Film Festival. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10253/1086382-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Film review: "Are you carrying any plants or animals or drugs or firearms?" the U.S. Customs officers ask. The problem -- here -- is getting in. "Are there any family members in the last three generations that you'd consider class enemies?" the officials ask in China. The problem -- there -- is getting out. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10253/1086383-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Film review: As a child in Oregon, Misha Pemble-Belkin wasn't allowed to have sugar, toy guns, violent video games or movies. His labor-organizer father and hippie mom even confiscated his turtle squirt gun. As a young man, he's an Army specialist in the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous postings of the war. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10253/1086384-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Atop most best-of lists of video-game-to-film adaptations, you're sure to find "Resident Evil," an impressive feat when you consider that Hollywood has had so little luck turning games into box-office gold. Witness "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," which saw a big budget ($200 million plus), a big studio (Disney) and a big name (Jake Gyllenhaal) declared one of the flops of summer 2010. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10253/1086388-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Film review: It seemed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had it all: Handsome, charismatic, talented, smart, befriended by the iconic Andy Warhol, his paintings exhibited internationally and his exhibitions sell-outs. And he was only 25. By age 27, he was dead of a drug overdose. "He was one of the people I was truly envious of but ... he was too fragile for this world," said Madonna, who had been his lover. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10253/1086389-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Film review: If you've been wrestling with life, with the Big Questions, with guilt over your father's death, with the local bullies in your high school -- the place for you, as a character, is "Legendary." The place for you as an audience member, however, is probably at the screen next door. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10252/1085950-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Trying to recover from a sudden breakup, Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl) believes she'll never fall in love again. But she meets the man of her dreams (Ashton Kutcher) on the French Riviera and marries him, without knowing he's an international superspy. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10252/1086090-53.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml In Kaz Rahman's new film of Muslims at prayer, the camera follows five women through the day as each pauses for prescribed prayer. From one who ritually washes in a paradisiacal garden pool, to one shopping in a crowded city to another bundled against ice and snow, each takes time for God. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085703-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml 2.4 million tickets were sold last year for the live transmissions Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085720-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml "Abduction" is looking for one more round of paid extras for the thriller starring Taylor Lautner being shot in Pittsburgh. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400