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 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 and AI doom close…
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 a reminder that adults…
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 its reviews suggest.
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…
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