Category: Non-Reviews
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Alien to Alien Romulus (Part 3 of 3)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay SOME SPOILERS STILL… BUT NOT FOR ROMULUS!!! Finally and none too soon we come to Alien: Romulus. Taking place chronologically after Alien but before Aliens with an S. I’ve always enjoyed the historical and mythological ties each of these movies has. In Alien, their ship…
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Alien to Alien Romulus (Part 2 of 3)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay SPOILERS! But not for Romulus… if I ever get to it. Now we come to Prometheus, chronologically taking place long before Alien. Pretty sure I had to sneak and watch this on my laptop in a hole somewhere to keep from traumatizing the kids and…
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Alien to Alien Romulus (Part 1 of 3)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay OOF. Yeah SPOILER ALERT, I guess… for just about every film in the franchise. Although I’m going to try to keep the details of Alien: Romulus under wraps. I freaking LOVE the Alien franchise. I saw the second and third before I sat down to…
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Nacho Libre
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay This movie was so weird. It wasn’t Eraserhead weird, thankfully. Or The Forbidden Zone weird. Nacho Libre was Napoleon Dynamite weird. I suppose there’s good reason for that. It had a plot. The plot made sense for the most part. It had a “feel good”…
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Twister/Twisters
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay For my wife, if she doesn’t watch Twister at least once between June and August, then summer didn’t happen as far as she’s concerned. Naturally, when Twisters with an S was announced I knew we’d be getting tickets or I’d be sleeping in the bathtub…
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Mac and Me
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay SPOILERS AS IF THIS MOVIE HASN’T ALREADY BEEN SPOILED SIMPLY BY EXISTING! My dad rented this on vhs from the Four Corners Rental Store because he thought it looked cute. I watched it unironically and found nothing bizarre about it whatsoever. This is not a…
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Lake Placid
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Dude. This movie was rad. Betty White. Huge Crocodile. What’s not to love? Casting Oliver Platt didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Just didn’t seem like his kind of movie. Maybe he just needed the work. The scene with the grizzly bear!…
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Karate Kid (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Every kid I know either wanted to know karate or claimed they did know it just before embarrassing the crap out of themselves and breaking their hand on a fresh piece of lumber. I was the latter. I remember running around the neighborhood playing tag…
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Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Also known as Jack et la Méchanique du Cœur (Zhak eh la mekaneek doo sewer) in its original French, this is an animated rock opera written and performed by Matthias Malzieu and his band Dionysos. There is definitely a cognitive story here but there are…
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I Am Legend
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Apparently I Am Legend is what The Omega Man with Charlton Heston was based on? There were some similarities. I think I liked this movie. The effects with the hordes of zombie guys (hemocytes) were pretty impressive. They were just pummeling things to oblivion with…
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