Category: Non-Reviews
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Transformers One
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Full disclosure. I’ve not really been a Transformers fan, or if I have been then I’ve been the type that gatekeeping Transformer elitist snobs have been angrily keeping behind the gate so as to maintain their feeling of superiority. I happily grant them that position…
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Two Bits & Pepper (Part 2 of 2)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Let’s jump right in… The girl’s walkabout almost instantaneously shows us why this was a bad idea as she is immediately accosted by not one but TWO evil Joe Piscopos. Is no one safe from this multiplicitous terror!?! Thus we come to lesson two. Don’t…
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Two Bits & Pepper (Part 1 of 2)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay This came up at the almost end of a long line of films I’ve viewed, all of which would normally be cataloged into the “I’ll write about this eventually” file, but not this title. I want to write about this right now, while it’s fresh.…
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Pacific Rim/Pacific Rim Uprising
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay I used to draw giant robots for all my friends. How’s that for a cold start to an article? No big deal. Each friend had their own giant robot specific to them that reflected what they thought was cool. They were giant humanoid robots the…
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Oblivion
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Tom Cruise is weird. I don’t want to get into his personal life but professionally… he’s also weird. Could you imagine managing a Burger King and hiring a guy who’s already very rich yet still demands another life-time supply of money and then comes in…
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Queen of Katwe
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay “In chess, the small one can become the big one.” I recently attended a presentation about life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We brought the kids along as it was to be very informative and we’d like them to think about people other than…
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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”…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 