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
- Why I roast films in IMAX from a Cineworld Unlimited seat
A 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. - Mercy (2026): An IMAX Trial Trapped on Laptop Screens Only
Amazon MGM sells Mercy (2026) as IMAX sci-fi, then traps you in a screen life courtroom: 90 minutes of surveillance dread and flat spectacle – on a big ticket. - Rental Family (2025): Japan, impostor syndrome, and 8 million godsRental Family sells rented connection in Tokyo, drops a writer-thief line, then ends at a shrine mirror: God is in you, even the person you’re faking.
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), Unlimited, and Unholy HypeA sense check of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple in the subscription era: cult vibes, franchise drift, and why IMAX feels like a surcharge at the till.
- No Other Choice (2025): Park Chan-wook’s job market guillotinePark Chan-wook turns redundancy into a 139-minute corporate slasher. A roast of No Other Choice, UK cinema subs, job-market panic, and the streaming squeeze.
- Smart-Dumb AI: Layoffs Now, Rehires LaterAI can write a memo, but it can’t run a business. Why firms betting on chatbots will quietly rehire humans next quarter and pretend it was always the plan.
- “You’re Lucky to Have a Job”: Pay Rises in Robotland Ltd
Managers say you’re lucky to have a job while inflation bites. We count UK pay, CEO ratios and UBI hype, then roast the AI manager replacement plan in 2026. - The Housemaid (2025): When love turns into property deeds
A fact-led roast of The Housemaid (2025): obsession sold as romance, sex scenes chasing prestige, and a cinema-only watch made affordable by Unlimited. - Elon Musk: The Everything App for Everything Going WrongElon Musk once sold us the future: X, Tesla, Grok, SpaceX. The pattern now looks like hype, weak guardrails, and public risk dressed up as progress.
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