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
- Ready or Not 2 turns satanic satire into sequel sludge
Ready or Not 2 piles satanic parody, gore and sequel noise onto a follow-up that forgets recaps, injuries and why the first film worked at all. - Project Hail Mary and the Great Cinema Seat Nuisance Tax
Project Hail Mary dazzles in IMAX, but the real sci-fi horror is modern cinema: cramped rows, popcorn warfare and premium prices for neck strain. - The Good Boy sells teen panic as therapy through captivityA dry roast of The Good Boy, where teen panic, forced reform and prestige gloom collide in a thriller that says more about fear than democracy itself.
- Pay Them Properly and Billionaires Start Looking NormalA fact-led roast of low pay, billionaire wealth, startup fantasy and AI hype: when wages trail prices and rent climbs, capital still calls it freedom.
- The Revenant review: frozen misery on a giant IMAX screenThe Revenant is glorious in IMAX and exhausting almost everywhere else – a beautiful endurance test about revenge, colonisation and money dressed as art.
- Reminders of Him forgets why cinemas charge actual moneyColleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him reaches for tears and redemption, but lands in the soft middle: watchable enough, costly enough, and built for streaming.
- How to Make a Killing proves the mid-budget gap is goneA dry roast of How to Make a Killing and the shrinking gap between cinema and streaming, where only IMAX still gives leaving home a real reason in 2026.
- Trump’s tyrant-cleaning fantasy ends at his own front doorA roast on Trump’s strongman logic: he may batter tyrants abroad, but he will not leave quietly when voters finally come for him at home in the next reckoning.
- AI Job Gurus Forget Who Still Signs Off the Whole SystemA fact-led roast of AI doom merchants who say coding will vanish, while real systems still need humans to judge, audit, verify and sign off in practice.
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