http://www.post-gazette.com/movies/ Movie news, reviews and features, Family Film Guide en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:43:15 -0500 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/09310/1011183-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml "Precious" screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher will be among the guests at a Pittsburgh panel tomorrow tackling thorny questions at the heart of Hollywood: "Getting Started: Where Do Good Ideas, Great Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011184-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly's "The Box": Press a button on a mysterious container, they'll get $1 million, and someone they don't know will die. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011185-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnival-like hokum. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011191-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Jim Carrey joins the legions of actors who have played Ebenezer Scrooge. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011192-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Robert Zemeckis may just be the father of the performance-capture, 3-D mania sweeping through Hollywood. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011193-121.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011195-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Watching snow on an IMAX screen with 3-D glasses is like being inside a snow globe. Just lovely. Observing performance-capture characters on such an enormous canvas is something else. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011202-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Movies about Coco Chanel are as timeless as little black dresses accented with strands of genuine pearls. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011203-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml You have to like a movie that ends with this caveat: "The filmmakers ask that no one attempt walking through walls, cloud-bursting while driving, or staring for hours at goats with the intent of Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011206-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml First Paris, now New York and, soon, Rio, Shanghai, Jerusalem and Mumbai. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010798-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Denzel Washington seems constitutionally incapable of turning in a bad performance, and he and John Travolta make the remake of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" a very respectable popcorn movie. ... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010799-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml n "I Love You, Beth Cooper" (HH): Larry Doyle ("The Simpsons") turns his novel into a movie about a nerdy valedictorian (Paul Rust) who proclaims his love for the most popular girl (Hayden Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010817-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Gabourey Sidibe isn't ashamed to say she was wrong. It's a mistake she will carry to ruby red carpets from now until Oscar night and beyond. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010818-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml The Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Dollar Bank, opens Friday with a robust, diverse mix of movies. It continues through Nov. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010819-60.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml The comic center may be an Indian-born physician and sometime filmmaker, but in "If It Ain't Broke, Break It," he's reminiscent of Bob Hope or Don Knotts. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010820-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml If the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons, the sins of the brothers fall hardest on each other. But exactly whose father, son or brother is Pawel? Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010840-120.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml Here is a sampling of reviews of movies playing during the first week of the Three Rivers Film Festival. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500