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
- Exit 8 Finds Horror in One Corridor and Eight Bad Choices
Exit 8 turns one sterile subway corridor into a Japanese soul audit, proving a tiny game adaptation can haunt harder than loud western spectacle films. - Michael: The IMAX Moonwalk Through Cinema’s Funeral Ads
Michael dazzles in IMAX, while pre-film streaming adverts make cinema look like it is rehearsing its own funeral in surround sound, one subscription at a time. - Streaming Ate Cable, Then Became Cable With More Apps AgainStreaming was sold as freedom, then became cable with apps, adverts, price rises, and one modest salary asked to fund every logo on Earth each month now.
- Council Tax Bullies And The Peaky Blinders Payment TrapCouncil tax arrears turn one missed payment into a yearly threat, while public services plead poverty and richer players keep loopholes polished and legal.
- Foundation: Asimov Finally Gets a Galaxy-Sized TV Budget
A full roast of Foundation on page and screen, from Asimov’s books to Apple’s series, and why only modern VFX could finally sell that scale. - Lee Cronin’s The Mummy: IMAX Gauze, Small Scares, No Soul
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is roasted as IMAX-sized possession horror: gross, loud, overlong, and barely a mummy beneath all that expensive gauze and dust. - AI Got Smarter While Politics Found Ancient Stupidity AgainAI has reached the public square, but politics still sells anoesis in loud packaging: old Greek wisdom meets new machine intelligence and civic theatre.
- AI Finally Learnt Design, And Humans Look Truly NervousAI image tools are finally becoming useful design partners, not magic gods. The promise is real, but so is the slop parade pretending to be art today.
- When Peace Talks Become a Pillow for Strongmen in EuropeEurope needs diplomacy, not surrender with table manners. Peace with Russia cannot mean asking Ukraine to smile while empire checks the old map again.
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