Category: Non-Reviews
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Hell Comes to Frogtown
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1988) Hoo-boy! What have we here? This film is a piece of work if there ever was one! And I have some history with it! Hell Comes to Frogtown is a post apocalyptic sci-fi/action flick starring Roddy “Rowdy” Piper as Sam Hell, one of the…
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White Chicks
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2004) The Just “The” That’s all I had written for a week straight, while I stared at my screen wondering which direction to go from “The”. It’s not that the film was particularly mind bending. It was a serviceable script with a funny premise. Two…
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Naked Gun (2026)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Usually I’d do a treatise on the entire Naked Gun franchise when a new modern installment comes about but I really haven’t seen the originals recently enough to remember them all too well. A lot of people may not realize the Naked Gun movies are…
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Porco Rosso
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1992) A film with a huge pig man in a trench coat did not interest me for a long time. Of course, once I had become more familiar with Hayao Miyazaki and the work of Studio Ghibli, I knew I had to see this and…
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Mysterious Island (2005)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay There are many cinematic incarnations of this classic Jules Verne story dating as far back as 1929 and even earlier depending on what you consider to be a movie. Most of these interpretations involved giant animals or even dinosaurs. Yet only a sparse and rudimentary…
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Buddy
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2026) MAJOR SPOILER WARNING FOR THIS FILM. I PRETTY MUCH GO THROUGH THIS ENTIRE FILM WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB POINT FOR POINT. BASICALLY, YOU CAN EITHER WATCH THE MOVIE OR READ THIS BLOG AND YOU WILL HAVE THE SAME EXPERIENCE, I AM THAT THOROUGH.…
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Merlin’s Apprentice
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2006) Just a couple days ago I wrote about Merlin: The Return (2000), a stand-alone film despite its title implying otherwise. It has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING else aside from stupidly being boxed and sold in a collection of other titles that happen to…
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Last Leprechaun (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1998) I can’t. I just can’t be kind to this one. I’m sorry. I could barely pay attention to it. It was terrifying! IMDb has this listed as an adventure/fantasy/drama/family film. Google has it listed as Family/Horror. FAMILY/HORROR!!! A better description of this film there…
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Shrunken City (The)
(Aka Shandar: The Shrunken City) A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1998) I know I said I don’t want to be super critical of low-budget kids’ films but yikes! The Shrunken City is REALLY low budget. It’s lower than a shoestring budget. It’s lower than a two-strings-and-a-button budget. I’d say The…
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Merlin: The Return
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2000) The Return? Is this a sequel? Research reveals it is NOT a sequel. So why Merlin: The Return? Well, because Merlin was somewhere else at the beginning of this film and then he came back. Duh. By this logic any film where someone goes…
