Dry British satire with receipts.
Film, AI, books, power and modern nonsense checked with sources and served dry.
Roast of the AI
AI hype, AGI theatre, model worship and machine-shaped confidence tricks.
Film Roasts
Corridors, remakes, sequels, streaming sludge and cinema pretending it found religion.
Sense Checks
Modern nonsense checked with numbers before it gets promoted to wisdom.
Society and Power
Politics, work, money and public power checked before the slogans settle.
Latest Roasts
Fresh nonsense, checked with sources before the roasting begins.
Independence Day: Advanced Aliens, Basic Computer Problems
Independence Day returns to cinemas with 1990s charm, giant alien ships and a computer virus that makes interstellar travel seem the easier part to believe.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: One Broom, More Magic Than Potter
A loving roast of Kiki’s Delivery Service, where one broom, a cat and a simple story create more cinema magic…

The Dog Stars: IMAX Wins While Cinema Waits for Extinction
Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars works in IMAX, but why ordinary cinemas still lag behind as smart glasses, home screens…

Spa Weekend and the Strange Luxury of Not Pressing Pause
Cineworld Unlimited got me into Spa Weekend, a film I would have saved for streaming. Somehow, its silly chaos became…

Mutiny (2026): Jason Statham’s Same Old Formula Still Works
Mutiny gives Jason Statham another highly trained ordinary bloke to unleash, and somehow the familiar formula still works better than…

AI Superintelligence Meets a Scientist With Feet on Earth
Michio Kaku cuts through AI doom and abundance fantasies with a grounded view of robots, jobs, quantum computing, human evolution…
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The Modern Hermit: Be a Sinner, but Make It Holy
A brief manifesto for staying human, keeping receipts and refusing modern nonsense with a straight face.
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