Category: Non-Reviews
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2016) I went into this film expecting a comedy. I assumed it was a movie about drinking and ballroom dancing. Imagine my disappointment. Naturally, it did have some humor here and there as any good script does. But this is by no means a comedy.…
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Ultraviolet
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2006) I remember liking Ultraviolet but I recall the ending being kind of tame. Like, did something just happen? Oh, that’s the end… okay, I guess. This could be due to a not very memorable villain. Just a guy in a suit, I think. Vampirism…
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Lizzie Bennet Diaries (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2012) The Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice “Bride & Prejudice” with a ‘B’, which I just recently non-reviewed, is a tolerable hour and fifty-one minutes. The very meta and self-aware 2013 film Austenland, which I have not seen but I feel a…
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Jurassic World: Rebirth
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2025) Alternate title: Jurassic World: Sorry About the Previous Film Seriously, if they (gnomes) had wrapped up Jurassic World: Dominion properly, would we even have Rebirth? Dominion was a nostalgia fest with hardly anything to do with dinosaurs, vicious or docile. It bugged me. Haha!…
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Superman (2025)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay NO SPOILERS!!! I’ve been working on a long-winded diatribe for the last two weeks and I’m in no mood to do another. I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. With Zack Snyder at the helm, for a brief instance Superman’s trustworthy Boy Scout image was…
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Tall Tale
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1995) I found this film strange, even when I watched it as a kid. I’d like to describe this as an “old west fables” version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That would have been a much cooler idea in my opinion. While it combined…
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Sahara (2005)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I would never assume to write a review of something I’ve not actually seen. I think that would be dishonest. I’ve detected such a practice amongst some well-published critics and I find it deplorable. Sometimes it’s easy to miss the point of a film but…
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Bride and Prejudice
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2004) Also known as Bride and Prejudice: the Bollywood Musical… as if we didn’t know. In keeping with the tradition of every woman I’ve ever met inundating me with variations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice thus making me seem a well cultured and sensitive…
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Shazam!
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2019) I did some homework on this one because I didn’t know a whole lot about Shazam going into the film and when it came to writing about it, I wanted to have some substance behind my thoughts, even if I don’t regurgitate all the…
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Raising Arizona
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1987) This is a movie about a man who steals a baby. It’s hilarious. I don’t mind movies where the “protagonist” is the one doing something wrong when his heart’s in the right place. And yet, obviously, I would never condone kidnapping in real life…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 