Category: Non-Reviews
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Haunting in Venice (A)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2023) Hey! I finally watched this! The third installment of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films! This was based on a short story by Agatha Christie called “Hallowe’en Party” but has been fleshed out into a full length film. There was an installment of the David…
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Nosferatu (2024)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Yee! This was rated R for good reason! Don’t take the kids. I’ve seen some rated R stuff that might have the kids shaking in a cold sweat in the corner of their room but this… yikes! There’s blood. There’s boobs. There’s sex. Sometimes all…
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Sonic 1, 2, 3, and the Knuckles miniseries
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Well they (gnomes) have certainly found a winning formula, haven’t they? How long before there are more cgi characters in these than actual live action characters? At what point are we just watching the Sonic cartoons again? Not that any of this is a complaint.…
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Elf (at the Elsinore Theatre)
(2003) You’re probably wondering why I would write a non-review for Elf. Hasn’t everyone seen it and loved it? The answer to that is a unanimous “Yes!” So this isn’t necessarily a non-review of Elf per sé. Similarly to my non-review of the experience of seeing the Five Nights at…
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Immortal Beloved & Beethoven Lives Upstairs
(1994) (1992) A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay SPOILERS! Immortal Beloved is a huge budget production with A-list acting giant Gary Oldman. Beethoven Lives Upstairs is a low budget 45 minute short film told from the perspective of a child. Both might be about the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, but…
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Wicked (Part 1)
(2024) A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Isaiah 5:20 says “Woe to those who call Wicked good…” Mary Shelly wrote “No man seems evil when you allow him to tell his story.” It’s also been said “Everyone is the bad guy in someone else’s story.” The modern prevalence of the misunderstood…
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Red One
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2024) SPOILERS UNLESS YOU’RE WELL VERSED IN ICELANDIC FOLKLORE I wanted to like this movie. I liked most of it. I liked maybe 73% of it. Incidentally I thought it was 27% too long. I guess that works out. So here’s what I liked. J.K.…
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Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of) (1960) & Huck Finn (The Adventures of) (1993)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Mark Twain’s book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with Huck and his friends sneaking off at night to make plans for the future. Their plan, as it reads, is to rob and kill passers-by and kidnap the women and hold them for ransom. Of…
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Quiet Man (The)
(1952) A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay You want to see a dang good movie? I don’t care who you are or what you’re into. You could be a dude of 30, a woman of 22, a lady of 12, a child of 67, or a class of 2000, you will…
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Madagascar Franchise
(2005-2020) A Non-review by Professor Popinjay This non-review encompasses everything Madagascar or Madagascar spinoff on or between the aforementioned years. Here’s a nifty list: Madagascar Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted Penguins of Madagascar movie Penguins of Madagascar series All hail, King Julian All hail, King Julian:…
