The Modern Hermit: Roasts and Sense Checks
RM, author and modern hermit
A quiet corner of the web for film roasts, streaming nonsense, tech hype, and reality checks on modern life.
Latest Roasts
- Wuthering Heights (2026): Bronte, but make it thirstier
Emerald Fennell turns Bronte into a glossy, carnal IMAX event. A fact-led roast of the 2026 adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, with pop music. - Emily Bronte: one novel, infinite homework for everyoneA positive roast of Emily Bronte: one novel in 1847, a lifetime of cultural aftershocks. Why her work still bites, and how to start reading – plus poetry.
- Wuthering Heights the book: love, obsession, and revengeA sense-check review of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: love as obsession, class warfare, and revenge. Read this before you call it romance, spoilers light.
- Send Help (2026): Corporate Hell Meets Desert Island ComedySam Raimi strands Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien on an island and lets office politics bite. A dark comedy horror that loves gore more than logic, sometimes.
- The Strangers: Chapter 3 and the recap it dodged entirelyChapter 3 clocks 91 minutes, hits 18 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, and still skips the recap. A sequel that makes you do homework before the horror, again.
- AGI Without Fact-Checking Is Just A Confident Lie Engine
AGI talk is cheap when models still guess. If truth is optional, science and society pay. Fact-checking should be default, not a premium add-on for everyone. - Is This Thing On? (2025) | Open Mic Therapy, Sofa Screen RealityA comedy-drama that treats stand-up like duct tape for divorce and loneliness, then dares you to pay cinema money for a living-room problem – in 121 minutes.
- Shelter (2026): Statham punches up the tired template againJason Statham delivers the usual fists, dog, kid, and MI6 panic in Shelter. A formulaic action thriller where the only surprise is the green-screen drive.
- Why I roast films in IMAX from a Cineworld Unlimited seatA personal note on why I started roasting films: Cineworld Unlimited, IMAX highs, sticky-floor lows, and why I want more Korean cinema on UK cinema screens.
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