Category: Non-Reviews
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Jack Frost (1964)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Also known as: Father Frost Russian title: Морозко (Morozko “Frosty” in English) There are a lot of movies called “Jack Frost”. There’s the one where Michael Keaton becomes a snowman and teaches us to live, laugh, and love. There’s the terrible horror movie and its…
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Repo! The Genetic Opera
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2008) Anyone ever wonder what Alexa Vega got into after Spy Kids? Me neither but here we are. Ironically the thing that caught my attention for Spy Kids is the same thing that caught my attention for Repo! The Genetic Opera. Ten points if you…
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Lucy, The Funny World of…
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1997) Yeah, it was manufactured in 1997 but the 7 or so clips from 1955, used in this multi-hour long “special” documentary were clearly dug out of the bottom of the cutting room refuse barrel scheduled for disposal. I assume this reel fell out as…
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City of the Lost Children
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1995) Mon Dieu! This was a weird movie! I liked it though. The French film industry tends to eschew special effects, often considering it diluting the cinematic artform. City of the Lost Children directors Jean-Pierre Juenet and Marc Caro threw this predilection to the wind…
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Warm Bodies
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2013) When I started watching this, I couldn’t imagine why I had missed it. I speculated maybe I deemed it as not my cup of tea. I’m sure it’s well established here, I’m not a fan of certain types of horror. I must have decided…
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1996) I wrote about how this influenced me back in the 90’s. Guh, that’s ambiguous. It did influence me back in the 90’s but I did not write about it back in the 90’s. I wrote about this film’s influence on me when I was…
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Gnomeo & Juliet
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2011) Just when I thought the story of Romeo and Juliet couldn’t get any weirder than Troma Team’s “Tromeo & Juliet” (1996) or Hallmark’s “The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns” (1999), they (gnomes, obviously) go and make something like this. I was avidly avoiding this…
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Leprechauns (The Magical Legend of the)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1999) While starting my Non-review of “Gnomeo and Juliet” I realized this treatise on “The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns” never made it over to this platform. First published July 22, 2017. Enjoy. Ah, Halmark movies! Each one is three hours long because what else…
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Half Baked
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1998) Friends at school would ask me if I had seen movies like this. My knee jerk response was “Why would I want to watch a movie about people doing drugs?” Then one day Kevin Bacon taught me to dance! That’s not a euphemism for…
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Philo Vance Mysteries
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay WARNING! THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MULTIPLE PICTURES OF OLD WHITE GUYS! This Non-review will focus on the following titles: The Canary Murder Case (1929) The Greene Murder Case (1929) The Bishop Murder Case (1929) The Benson Murder Case (1930) Paramount on Parade (1930) The Kennel Murder…
