Movies – Moe Lane

Robert Eggers’s next Focus movie will be called WERWULF.

Gee, I wonder what that will be about? “Robert Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features after the phenomenal success of Nosferatu becoming the studio’s second highest grossing movie stateside with $90.5M behind Downton Abbey, and that is with the new genre movie Werwulf.”

Via Geek Tyrant. If you like horror movies at all, do not sleep on NOSFERATU. It is a good vampire flick, solidly based in its time period. I assume that WERWULF will be the same way, and that it will not be a happy-shiny werewolf movie. Eggars doesn’t roll that way.

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The S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of the Zone Kickstarter/Fan movie.

They crowdfunded this a couple of years ago: the movie is based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 video game. I’ve just started said movie, and so far S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of the Zone has been pretty dang good. I’m gonna go back to watching it now.

Game link: https://amzn.to/4hqlG3g

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The KRAVEN THE HUNTER Honest Trailer.

I’m surprised. Honest Trailers noted that there were some good action sequences in KRAVEN THE HUNTER. I was expecting them to pan the entire thing. Maybe it’s not entirely bad?

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The pilot episode to The Promised Land.

I clicked on it with quite a bit of trepidation, but The Promised Land is good! Fun without being disrespectful. They definitely know their Bible, too.

Check out this interview for more details, and check out the pilot, too.

Quote of the Day, It Fits The HELLDIVERS 2 Aesthetic edition.

Not likely to happen, but the thought made me laugh:

During a recent discussion in the Helldivers 2 Discord, Jorjani responded to a fan fan-casting Chris Pratt as a Bile Titan by saying: “We’re all hoping for as many A-list actors as possible. As long as they all get killed violently immediately.”

The thing, though? If the cameos are short enough, you could afford a lot of them. Like, a lot a-lot. I could see somebody doing a gory death in HELLDIVERS 2 for scale, just for the fun of it.

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The ‘Clever Idea’ UNTIL DAWN trailer.

This might be something to see with Eldest Son. Checking now. Anyway, the conceit of UNTIL DAWN is very TTRPG, which is a compliment in this context. May go to see this on my own.

The DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN trailer.

I admit, I never finished the series. I don’t even know why. DAREDEVIL was pretty good! Just wasn’t my style, I guess. But this looks promising.

Why the Russo brothers are doing MCU movies again.

Two reasons, really.

1). There’s a story they need to tell.
2). …for eighty million dollars.

Mind you, I don’t begrudge them the money. All that the traffic will bear, baby. Desperation deals are great, when you’re not the desperate one.

In the Mail: SATURDAY NIGHT.

I meant to see SATURDAY NIGHT in theaters, but it just wasn’t happening. Ach, well. …Huh. I was thinking of seeing a movie this week, too, but three days of school closings scuppered that plan, but good.

Again: oh, well. It’s not like these are actual problems.

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HELLDIVERS 2 to get god-awful movie adaptation.

…In your heart, you know I’m right: “The hit video game Helldivers 2 is getting the feature film treatment! Sony Pictures announced the project during their CES 2025 press conference.” It’s going to be very exciting, really. My eldest loves Helldivers 2, and hasn’t really experienced yet the special pain that comes when a movie studio takes one of your favorite video games, and drops it feet-first into a wood chipper. The life lesson will be good for his development, really.

Moe Lane

PS: Trust me, I could have been considerably more… visceral …in that imagery.

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