Category: Non-Reviews

• Non-Reviews

  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…

  July 28, 2025
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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!…

  July 27, 2025
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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…

  July 26, 2025
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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…

  July 25, 2025
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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…

  July 24, 2025
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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…

  July 8, 2025
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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…

  July 1, 2025
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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…

  June 26, 2025
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  White Christmas

  

  A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1954) Yeah, it was December and I was dating this fly ass honey, see? And she’s like “Dude! We should totally watch White Christmas, yo!” And I’m like “For real? Cuz I always thought White Christmas was just a stale Christmas special with no story.”…

  June 26, 2025
• Non-Reviews

  Quiet Place (A) & A Quiet Place Part 2

  

  A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2018) (2021) I hate slasher flicks but I love monster movies. Some might assume horror is horror is horror but the idea of some psychopath running around wantonly poking people with sharp objects just disgusts me. Monster movies are different though. Take human psychology away…

  June 25, 2025