Category: Non-Reviews
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Romance on the High Seas
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I’m having trouble differentiating this film from Road to Rio which I watched just before this. The plots were very dissimilar but they still had a lot in common. They both involved time on a cruise ship and a trip to Rio de Janeiro. And…
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Road to Rio (1947)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Another in the “Road to” comedy series with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby doing their usual hijinks and fighting over the same woman. That is a full endorsement by the way. These films are all pretty enjoyable and this one, so far, has quickly become…
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Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Original Animated Series)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay It might be because I only recently finished watching the mediocre The Replacements animated series, but Rescue Rangers holds up really well. The animation is superb, the stories are varied, the characters, be they main, recurring, or appearing only once, are well rounded and interesting.…
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Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay I’d like to start this article by saying I did zero research prior to writing it. So at face value this is a film about a man (Pedro Pascal) who loves Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage plays a semi-fictional version of himself who is seemingly at…
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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…
