Category: Non-Reviews
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Monet: Shadow & Light
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Imagine Tommy Lee Jones playing Claude Monet while putting no effort into emulating a French accent aside from the occasional “Entre” and “Merci” and you’d have a close facsimile to the performance phoned in by Stuart Hughes in The Artists’ Special: Monet: Shadow and Light.…
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Mighty Joe Young (1998)
a Non-review by Professor Popinjay …or as I like to call it, King Kong Lite. This is a story of a not quite small but not quite so big gorilla. He’s bigger than the average gorilla but smaller than your average giant gorilla. He’s medium. He’s the littlest giant. That…
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Mighty Ducks 3
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay ——-Who would have thought a far reaching cash grab would actually have a fairly original story line? WHO!?! ——-While sports movies tend to be focused on powerful emotions and diligence, they tend to suffer in the courtroom drama department. Courtroom dramas are easy to crank…
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Mighty Ducks 2
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay This movie was a cookie cutter of the first film just with higher steaks. The allusion to the Bad News Bears is so strong they even went so far as to use the standard excerpt from Bizet’s “Carmen”: “L’more es un Oiseau Rebelle” in the…
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Mighty Ducks (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay ——-Time for a walk down nostalgia lane. I’d seen The Mighty Ducks about a thousand times as a kid but I’d never seen the sequels as far as I can remember so I thought I’d take a refresher course with the first film. You know?…
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Monkey’s Uncle & Misadventures of Merlin Jones
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay First published June 10, 2020 Tommy Kirk would pass away Sept 28, 2021 When it comes to movies I’m a bit of a completionist. I also like to do a bit of research after watching something because I find the trivia fascinating. So when my…
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Marty
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–If I said anything that might make a person want to see this movie, it would likely be a lie. This film had no robots. It had no super-powered people fighting other super-powered people. No aliens. No rocket powered jet packs. All it had was…
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Man Who Wasn’t There (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–It’s nice to see some directors get their wish and actually film a movie in black and white. There’s not a director out there who doesn’t want to do this but movie marketing always shuts it down. The Man Who Wasn’t There is done in…
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Man Who Knew Infinity (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–This was a biopic about Srinivasa Ramanujan, probably the most brilliant mathematician of the previous century. The finding of another notebook full of his mathematical theories long after his death has been equated with the finding of Beethoven’s tenth symphony. —–I like math movies as…
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Man of LaMancha (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–Wow! To think I went into this with little to no interest! This. Was. Great! I’m almost sad to include this in a half-assed quickly slapped together article. It deserves analysis. Maybe I still will someday. The Man of LaMancha is a musical version of…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 