Monday, December 25, 2006

Flick picks (Movie theaters)

Here are some of Times-Union movie critic Matt Soergel's favorite movies in theaters:
In observance of Christmas, city offices in Toledo, Ottawa Hills, and Sylvania will be closed through Monday.
My sister Elaine and her husband Eddie treated us to a movie at the local Cineplex last weekend, and most of us voted to see Apocalypto , Mel Gibsons latest foray into that special genre well call "bloody, gruesome movies with strange languages requiring subtitles."
LOS ANGELES -- In the real world, Hollywood's on the warpath to fight movie pirates who bootleg films. On screen, the town kind of owes its business turnaround in 2006 to a gang of pirates led by Johnny Depp.