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.
Fuze and the Quiet Downgrade of Cinema Once IMAX Is Gone
Fuze is a brisk British thriller, but once IMAX is gone, standard cinema starts competing with the sofa on comfort, price and reasons to…
They Will Kill You review: Satanic splatter on autopilot
They Will Kill You roast, a 94-minute satanic splatter film that mistakes blood for wit, noise for style, and cult chic for anything like…
The Magic Faraway Tree and the big-screen babysitter problem
A fact-led roast of The Magic Faraway Tree, a family fantasy that sells nature, wifi withdrawal and countryside virtue with more sofa charm than…
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…
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 captivity
A dry roast of The Good Boy, where teen panic, forced reform and prestige gloom collide in a thriller that says more about fear…
The Revenant review: frozen misery on a giant IMAX screen
The 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 money
Colleen 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 gone
A dry roast of How to Make a Killing and the shrinking gap between cinema and streaming, where only IMAX still gives leaving home…
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