Category: Non-Reviews
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Super Mario Bros. & The Super Mario Bros. Movie
(1993) (2023) A non-review by Professor Popinjay The 1993 Super Mario Bros. film is widely regarded as a bad Mario movie. But is it a bad movie without Mario? Probably. But is it a fun bad movie? I like to think so. When I watch the 1993 Super Mario Bros.…
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay For a while it seemed like there was a Pinocchio craze going on. All Disney has to do is fart in the general direction of some public domain intellectual property and suddenly every half-funded production company out there starts cranking out replicas for the sole…
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James Bond 007: Dr. No to No Time to Die PART 4 of 4
A Non-Review of 27 films (also a cartoon series and a video game) by Professor Popinjay Final favorites! Aside from gimmicky henchmen, I think my favorite villain was Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun). Christopher Lee was Ian Flemming’s actual cousin for crying out loud,…
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James Bond 007: Dr. No to No Time to Die PART 3 of 4
A Non-Review of 27 films (also a cartoon series and a video game) by Professor Popinjay [About the cover photo: Top left: Monty Norman, composer of the theme for Dr. No used in all Bond films since. Top right: Shirley Bassey (Sang Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang…
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James Bond 007: Dr. No to No Time to Die PART 2 of 4
A Non-Review of 27 films (also a cartoon series and a video game) by Professor Popinjay The rest of the Pierce Brosnan films came and went and I was too preoccupied with girlfriends to pay them much heed. I did collect all the musical scores on cd though. I also…
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James Bond 007: Dr. No to No Time to Die PART 1 of 4
A Non-Review of 27 films (also a cartoon series and a video game) by Professor Popinjay When considering an entire franchise spanning 59 years there’s bound to be much said that could be said of any such franchise, few as they may be. Not all the films are going to…
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Liszt’s Rhapsody
The Composer Collection A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay There’s a great typo on IMDB in the synopsis for this film. His fork is transformed!?! Oh no! How will he eat!?! Hilarious. Obviously it was supposed to say work but now I’m interested in Franz Liszt’s silverware! When is someone going…
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Casanova’s Big Night
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I’m gonna level with you. I remember very little of this film. I had to take a refresher course. I know Bob Hope is a tailor and he keeps biting people’s lapels and cuffs apparently to tie up some loose thread after which he smiles…
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Jurassic World Dominion
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Ye Gods this was stupid! What a let down this was! Giant bugs? Seriously? That is not what we paid to see and I want my money and time back! When date night comes around I have only enough time for dinner, a movie, or…
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Death on the Nile (2022)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay As the second installment of Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Death on the Nile, I was expecting something as epic and thrilling as the previous Murder on the Orient Express. Frankly I found this one just kind of sad. It was well performed and…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 