Roast of the Movie
Films, series, streaming platforms and cinema habits, reviewed with a little patience and a low tolerance for expensive nonsense. The archive covers what works on screen, what collapses under its own marketing and why the experience around a story can matter as much as the story itself. Expect spoilers to be handled carefully, franchises to answer for themselves and cinema sound to receive the respect it keeps invoicing us for.
The End of Oak Street: Cinema Sound Killed the Dinosaurs
The End of Oak Street is watchable, but a bad ordinary-screen sound experience makes streaming at home feel better and leaves IMAX as cinema’s…
Spider-Man’s IMAX Snub Exposes Cinema’s Premium Problem
Spider-Man: Brand New Day deserved an IMAX premiere, but The Odyssey took the screens and exposed Britain’s premium shortage and uneven cinema sound quality.
The Odyssey: IMAX Glory Meets the Three-Hour Chair Test
The Odyssey fills IMAX screens and shakes every chair, but can Christopher Nolan’s three-hour spectacle survive beyond its cinema-sized thunder?
Evil Dead Burn Review: Shivers, Gore and Fishing Regret
Evil Dead Burn delivers savage gore, real shivers and one fishing scene capable of emptying lakes, while proving some horrors belong only in cinemas…
Moana (2026): The Ocean Called, Disney Sent Another Remake
Moana (2026) looks glorious in IMAX, but Disney’s live-action remake proves that colour, CGI and Dwayne Johnson still cannot invent a reason to exist.
The Invite Makes Marriage a Dinner-Theatre Therapy Trap
A dry roast of The Invite, where swinging becomes marriage therapy, cinema beats streaming, and four famous actors rescue a stagey dinner party from…
Minions & Monsters: Yellow Chaos on the Biggest Screen Now
Minions & Monsters turns silent-film history into bright IMAX chaos, but the biggest screen cannot hide plastic polish, thin plotting and franchise habits.
Supergirl Turns IMAX Into Streaming With a Cape and Dog
Supergirl brings grief, Krypto and cosmic scale to IMAX, but a stitched story, weak box office and streaming habits leave the cape doing overtime…
Toy Story 5: The Big Screen Funeral For The Toy Box Age
Toy Story 5 turns toys versus tech into a glossy family sermon, half playtime, half warning label for talking screens, AI friends and fading…
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