February 2026 Reviews
This is an index of all the reviews I wrote and posted in February 2026:
Film
The Librarians (2025) - 4/5 - "clear, calm-headed and thorough"
Code Unknown (2000) - 5/5 - "his masterpiece"
A Haunting in Cawdor (2016) - 2.5/5 - "Not a great outcome"
Cognitive (2025) - 2.5/5 - "a good first draft"
The Control Group (2014) - 1/5 - "nuh uh"
Archons (2018) - 4/5 - "vivid and relatable"
Stoker Hills (2020) - 3.5/5 - "I cackled throughout"
Short Films
This Must Be The Place (2019) - 3/5 - "I wish there was a place to breathe before dinner."
The Moths Will Eat Them Up (2021) - 4/5 - "you still understand what's happening through feeling"
Piggy (2018) - 4.5/5 - "Galan...draws us in completely"
Her House (2024) - 2/5 - "Ultimately insubstantial"
Chomp (2023) - 3.5/5 - "A gem"
Pop Monsters (2024) - 2/5 - "less than it seems"
To Hell With You (2024) - 4/5 - "Pure goofball energy"
The Remnant (2019) - 4/5 - "A real find"
Breadwinner (2025) - 4/5 - "we never know, exactly, what's next"
While Mortals Sleep (2022) - 2/5 - "An interesting vignette"
Doom Scroll (2024) - 5/5 - "the lowest budget and shortest 5 star movie on my list"
The Retreat (2021) - 3.5/5 - "rated lower on paper"
Trial 22 (2023) - 3/5 - "more than the sum of its parts"
Video Games
Portal (1986)(not a typo) - 5/5 - "whoever heard of a visual novel?"
Bejeweled 3 (2010) - 5/5 - "bling!"
The Complex (2020) - 3.5/5 - "Infectious"
Scanner Sombre (2017) - 4/5 - "cold and lonely"
Cardinal Chains (2018) - 4/5 - "up and down"
Books
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940) - 5/5 - "a tragic, wonderful yarn"
Blind Run by Brian Freemantle (1985) - 4/5 - "Charlie's back, baby!!"
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1957) - 3.5/5 - "A completely cold-blooded killer"
Understanding and Implementing Inclusion in Museums by Laura-Edythe Coleman (2018) - 3/5 - "We're on the other side of DOGE"