Category: Non-Reviews
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Godzilla: Planet of Monsters and Sequels
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay This review will focus on the anime directed by Hiroyuki Seshita and Kôbu Shizuno: Godzilla: Planet of Monsters (2017) Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) Godzilla: Planet Eater (2018) When I wrote my 10 part Godzilla treatise in 2025 (Godzilla: Who is this…
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1961) I’d always avoided this movie because it was described poorly to me. The descriptor explained, “It’s about a male prostitute who meets a female prostitute and they fall in love.” This description horrified me as I had just given a copy of the film…
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Zootopia 2
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2025) THIS ARTICLE IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!! NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF 81 SHOULD READ THIS BLOG!!! Also, this is NOT a raunchy fan fiction, just so you know. I pulled a Christopher Nolan’s MEMENTO on this one and watched the last half before…
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Stroker Ace
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1983) Apparently Burt Reynolds does comedies that involve driving and/or racing. And the understatement of the year award goes to Professor Popinjay. Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II, Smokey & the Bandit, Smokey & the Bandit 2, White Lightning, White Lightning 2-in-1, Driven, Gumball 3000. Okay…
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Backrooms (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2026) A word started getting tossed around a while back. “Liminal spaces” was the topic of the month amongst my children. They had become entranced with computer generated videos of long blank hallways, endless tile-covered echoey corridors with impossibly deep pools of water strewn about,…
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Roman Holiday
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1953) My wife couldn’t believe I’d never seen this film. I couldn’t believe I was going to watch it. I’m kidding of course. Roman Holiday is a classic and the fact that I missed it truly is a travesty that needed rectified. Plus, sometimes you…
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Mandalorian and Grogu and SCREEN X
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2026) This was my son’s first theatrical Star Wars experience. Knowing this, I sought to make it particularly special by going for the Screen X tickets. More on that later. My son and I have been plowing through Star Wars stuff as chronologically as possible…
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Mortal Kombats I & II & I & II
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Test your might as we fight our way through: Pearl Clutchers the world over were appalled at the violence depicted in the Mortal Kombat arcade 1v1 fighting game when it first showed up in 1992. Capcom’s Street Fighter 2 had come out just a year…
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay What better way to celebrate this year’s May the 4th (Star Wars Day) than with a trip to the Eugene Hult Center to see Return of the Jedi (1983) accompanied by the amazing Eugene Symphony Orchestra providing John Williams’ musical score! Tickets had been afforded…
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Zoolander
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2001) I’m realizing there was an era in my life when, if a good comedy came out, the intersecting social circles I ran in would each watch said movies at various intervals and I would often find myself present at each one of those intervals.…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 