Category: Non-Reviews
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
A Non-Review By Professor Popinjay (1964) Based on the book written by Robert L. May in 1939 for Montgomery Ward department stores, and etched into our skulls by Johnny Marks’ song, there’s not a soul on this planet who hasn’t heard of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. That’s right, if…
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Glitter & Greed: The Lisa Frank Story
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Just so there’s no confusion, this article is a non-review of the documentary of the same title directed and co-produced by Arianna LaPenne. What do you get when you put three alleged narcissists in one office building? A neon colored shit storm apparently. I liked…
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Beetlejuice- The Animated Series
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1989) Spoiler warning for the Beetlejuice movie (1988). While my mom may have expressed her dislike of this show and even may have made me turn it off at times, I confess I watched Beetlejuice religiously. I think I may have seen the movie on…
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Man Who Invented Christmas (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2017) [I suppose I should indicate a SPOILER ALERT but this film is centered around A Christmas Carol, written 182 years ago. I’m pretty sure everyone has seen or read it by now.] The word “Dickensian” is often used to describe squalid and unfair working…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2025) This article shall be SPOILER FREE mainly because I never knew what the hell was going on anyway. The plot wasn’t hard to follow so long as you knew this is a sequel and that’s not hard to surmise thanks to the giant steaming…
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Napoleon Dynamite
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2004) I saw Peluca (2003) before I had ever heard of Napoleon Dynamite. Imagine my confusion when I would see a whole cubic display at Walmart consisting of nothing but copies of Napoleon Dynamite with the character “Seth” on the boxart. Upon inspecting the DVD…
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Call Me Madam
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1953) My wife brought this home from the library. Yes, physical media still exists. Yes, libraries still exist. Yes, I’m married. The first connection my brain made with this title was to a meme of a very masculine trans woman angrily insisting she is to…
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Mad Max Trilogy (1979-1985)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Three movies shall enter this article, none shall leave: Mad Max (1979) Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1981) Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdone (1985) If you’re a super fan of these films you may want to step outside. I’ll tell you now, while I thought Road Warrior…
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Lara Croft Films
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Exhuming the following films: Tomb Raider (2018) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life (2003) Doctor Strange (2016) was the first movie I went to see by myself. It was Thanksgiving Day, my kids were with their mom (that was allowed…
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Kazaam
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1996) I know the word “Fun!” on the poster art is an actual cited quote but the presence of the quotation marks makes it look like it’s implying this film is a facsimile of “fun” or something that could technically be considered a type of…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 