Category: Non-Reviews
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Mysterious Museum
(Aka: Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum, Aka: The Search for the Jewel of Polaris, Aka: Night at the Mysterious Museum, Aka: Night at the Magic Museum, and many more!) A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1999) I like to do a bit of research about films before writing…
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Transylvania 6-5000
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1985) Suppose you’re in Yugoslavia and you have several million in Yugoslav dinar (the Yougoslavian currency from 1966-1989) and the only place you can legally spend said money is in Yugoslavia. Do you either: A: Live it up in Yugoslavia for a while until the…
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Flight of Dragons
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1982) Based on two books, Flight of Dragons (1979) by Peter Dickinson, and The Dragon and the George (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson, this animated feature takes its narrative and characters from The Dragon and the George but the book from whence the film’s title…
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Bad Guys (The) & The Bad Guys 2
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2022) (2025) [Possible spoilers for Ocean’s Eleven franchise (2001-2007), Changing Lanes (2002), and maybe The Bad Guys a little bit. Not so much The Bad Guys 2 though.] My wife had opinions on the Ocean’s Eleven franchise and heist movies in general wherein we as…
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Tuskegee Airmen (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1995) The Tuskegee Airmen is about the “experimental” program that trained African-Americans as wartime pilots. Ironic that they would fight in a war against hatred and racial genocide while enduring a similar hatred from many of their own countrymen. They defended their country regardless of…
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Selena
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1997) The first thing I learned while watching the movie “Selena” is that it’s impossible to dislike Selena. Not liking Selena is like not liking adorable puppies or a box of kittens. Obviously, I’m not going to get into this film and be like “This…
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Thirteen Days
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2000) I did some research on the accuracy of events portrayed in the movie “Thirteen Days” and found that Kevin Costner was not actually a pivotal influence during the Cuban missile crisis. He was only 7 years old at the time. Incidentally, the character Costner…
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Star Wars: Bad Batch
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2021) My son and I have endeavored to watch through all things Star Wars. With the rate at which we watch though we should wrap things up some where around 2046. He doesn’t watch things at 2x the normal playback speed so it’s slow going.…
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What’s To Be Done with Highly Anticipated Movies?
A Typographical Processing by Professor Popinjay (2026) I’m seriously re-evaluating how to present this type of blog for really popular films right when said films come out. Some films come out and I detect readers are genuinely curious about what to expect from a film even if the explanation contains…
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Cat in the Hat (2003)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay WARNING! THIS ARTICLE IS NO MORE APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN THAN THE 2003 CAT IN THE HAT MOVIE WAS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. I did it! I can’t believe it! I actually finished this movie! I have been trying to watch this all the way through since…
