Is 2026 going to be the year of the "prestige" reboot, or are we staring down the barrel of another year of hollow IP farming?

Wes and Lucas crack open the 2026 release calendar to separate the treasure from the trash. We’re looking past the family-friendly tentpoles to find the movies that actually matter to us—the gritty sci-fi, the unhinged horror sequels, and the cult classics in the making.

In this episode:

• The Heavy Hitters: Why 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Avengers: Doomsday might actually live up to the hype.
• The Horror Slate: Breakdown of Scream 7, the new Evil Dead spinoff, and Lee Cronin’s take on The Mummy.
• Sci-Fi Hopes: Can Mickey 17 and Project Hail Mary save the genre?
• The Wild Cards: Why we are unironically excited for Street Fighter and the Cliffhanger reboot.

Grab your popcorn and prepare for some "inside baseball" analysis on what we’ll be watching (and what we’ll be roasting) this year.

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