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
- The Modern Hermit: Divine Love, SEO, and 248 Pages of Hustle
A roast of the Modern Hermit archetype: 248 pages of divine love, 202 posts, and a browser screaming for keywords. Spiritual work meets daily SEO panic. - Crime 101 (2026): a streaming thriller in borrowed IMAX glory!A starry LA heist thriller that sings in IMAX, yet still plays like a Prime Video sofa job. Heat echoes, Highway 101 pure glamour, overlong adult swagger.
- Trump’s Board of Peace: the billion-dollar kneel club in DCTrump’s Board of Peace sells ‘world order’ at $1bn a seat, while autocrats and hangers-on plan troops, money and a Gaza makeover. Satire, with receipts.
- Wuthering Heights (2026): Bronte, but make it thirstierEmerald 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.
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