Category: Non-Reviews
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Phineas & Ferb
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2007-2025) The first time I heard the names Phineas and Ferb was from a group of my students. As speech impediments prevailed amongst these younglings, I was hard pressed to know what they were saying sometimes. So it took a minute to figure out who…
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Thunderbolts*
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2025) As we finish Phase WGAS? and move on into Phase WGAS? we find a new batch of “heroes/miscreants” who reluctantly want to be a team almost as much as the audience reluctantly wants to see Disney scrape from the bottom of the barrel to…
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Kate & Leopold
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I’ve ranted before on my thoughts regarding the time travel in this film. The short of it is: I think Kate and Leopold did it right. It did it better than Terminator, better than Back to the Future, even better than H.G. Wells’ The Time…
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Olive, the Other Reindeer
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1999) If you like the Simpsons you may as well like Olive the Other Reindeer. It was produced by Matt Greoning’s Curiosity Company and even features Dan Castallaneta (Homer Simpson) as the voice of the disgruntled postman. Futurama fans might also catch the voice of…
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Jack (Never Forgetting Robin Williams)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1996) An interesting tackle considering everything. Jack is the story of a kid who aged really fast. He’s played by a remarkable man who left too soon. The film is a perfect vehicle for the antics of beloved Robin Williams. He’s basically a big kid,…
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Melody Time
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1948) Disney’s Melody Time features a variety of animated shorts all set to original music. A few of them have appeared in other collections or stand-alone installments here and there. I’ve seen each of these throughout my childhood and they made a lasting impression. There’s…
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I Accuse My Parents
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1944) There was a time, long ago, when criminal scum was regarded simply as that. Anyone who might be so debased as to commit a crime like jaywalking or cursing in public has clearly been without a moral compass since birth and no amount of…
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Down with Love vs. Lover Come Back
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Yes, I’ve done a Non-review for Lover Come Back and yes, I mentioned Down with Love in that article. Now I’m writing an official comparison between the two. It’s a completely different article. I’m allowed to plagiarize myself. Okay, full disclosure, I didn’t recall writing…
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Hairspray
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2007) I had zero interest in this until I realized both Christopher Walken and John Travolta were in it. I don’t know what it is about Travolta that captivates me so. He has this strange charisma about him that just seems supernatural, whether he is…
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Littlest Rebel (The)
Released March 19, 1935 And for context, Temple’s film “The Little Colonel” was released one month prior to “Rebel”: February 22, 1935. I’m baffled. “Rebel” and “Colonel” have the same cast, are set before and after the Civil War respectively, and were both directed by David Butler. These came out…
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