This Week in the Mercury
Friday, April 30, 2010
Brendan Fraser / Film This Week's Mercury Film Section.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:12 PM
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror: Thanks to space limitations, I didn't have room in my review to mention two things that're pretty important: (A) Birdemic features the most jaw-dropping jump cut I've seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey, and (B) Birdemic also features the following dialogue: "Hi. The eagles killed our friends. Do you have a phone I can use to call the police?"
Furry Vengeance: The film that broke Ned Lannamann's heart.
A Nightmare on Elm Street: At some point, Hollywood's gonna run out of things to reboot. What will happen on that fateful day? No one knows.
The Secret of Kells: Seeing only one thing this weekend? See this. It's just fantastic, all around, and since it's an animated film that has neither Pixar's name attached nor Mike Myers voice in it, I wouldn't count on it sticking around on the big screen for very long. You want to see this, and you want to see it in a theater. Here's the trailer.
Meanwhile, the perennially great Pulp Fiction is at the Fifth Avenue Cinema, and the Wordstock Books-to-Film Festival takes over a McMenamin's or two.
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