Roast of the Day
The roasts take a current claim, film, product, institution or public performance and ask the impolite but useful question: does any of this make sense? Each article separates the judgement from the evidence, checks the important factual claims and leaves the sources in view. Expect dry British satire, modern incentives and the occasional three-panel sketch. Start with the newest receipt or use the topic links to narrow the archive.
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…
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…
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…
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.
The Feed Is Filling Up With People Who Were Never There
AI impersonation accounts are flooding feeds faster than rules can catch up, leaving real creators to compete with synthetic charm and industrial-scale fakery.
AI Is Not the Villain. The Profit Model Behind It Is Broken
People do not hate AI for existing. They hate a profit model that automates work, hoards the gains, and leaves workers holding the economic…
Super Mario Galaxy and Cinema’s Premium-Format Fossil Club
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie made a billion while cinemas still ration sharp projection and strong sound through costly premium-format upgrades in 2026.
Democracy for the Passport, Strongmen for the Headspace
A roast of the absurd habit of taking the wages and freedoms of democracy while still making excuses for the strongmen, censorship and fear…
The Drama turns wedding nerves into an upscale headache
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson headline a wedding meltdown that confuses provocation with depth, turning subscription cinema into a very expensive shrug.
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