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SOULM8TE: The M3GAN Movie We DIDN’T See Coming (And Might Not Get To See) Okay, let’s be real for a second. After the first  M3GAN  movie dropped, what did we all want? More M3GAN, obviously. More of her chaotic TikTok dances, more of her brutally efficient childcare methods, more of that terrifyingly perfect bob. I, for one, had my popcorn ready for a straight-up sequel. But the universe had other, infinitely weirder plans. When the news hit that the next film in this world would be called SOULM8TE , a sci-fi erotic thriller spin-off about a guy and his murderous AI girlfriend… my brain broke. I think I actually said “Huh?” out loud to my empty living room. This wasn't just a left turn; it was a full 180 into a genre we haven't seen these production houses touch in this way. And you know what? After the initial shock wore off… I got it. I am now, fully and completely, on board the SOULM8TE hype train. Even if, as of last week, that train got mysteriously rerouted to an unknow...

Why “The Plague” is the Most Important Movie of 2026 (And Why It's Not About a Virus) Let’s get this out of the way first: I was completely, embarrassingly wrong. A while back, I wrote a blog post gushing about a movie I called my “comfort watch,” a film about a fungal apocalypse I was certain was called The Plague . I rhapsodized about sound design, survivalist found families, and a bleak, ambiguous ending. I was so, so deep in my own fan theory that I built a whole cinematic universe in my head. Turns out, I had somehow imagined an entire movie that doesn’t exist. The actual 2025 film titled The Plague premiered at Cannes and is expanding wide on January 2, 2026 . And friends? It’s nothing like what I dreamed up. It’s better. It’s real. And it’s about a terror far more intimate than any zombie horde. This is a movie about the quiet, vicious plague of adolescence. Specifically, the kind that festers in the locker-room humidity of an all-boys water polo camp in the summer of 2003...