Category: Non-Reviews
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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…
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Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The) (2015)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–This was the new movie, not the old show. My advice, go brush up on the cold war history before watching this because most the humor is based on the absurdity of a Russian spy working together with an American spy. In fact you may…
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Man from Snowy River
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–Kill me! This film was clearly not made for one such as myself. This was made evident by the fact that nothing happened but character development for the first 45 minutes! I came into this thinking it was a Western like “A Fist Full of…
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Man from Planet X (The)
A Non-Review by Professors Popinjay —–It made sense to film westerns in the 40’s and 50’s. Much of the country looked like a desolate ghost town and everyone still dressed like cowboys anyway. Okay so that’s an exaggeration but seriously, did they have to build giant sets to create the…
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Major Barbara
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–Imagine Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory but replace the Chocolate with Cannons and replace Charlie with a Professor of Greek Mythology. Finally replace charming children’s author Roald Dahl with one who supports mass-murder. This is what you get when you watch George Bernard Shaw’s…
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Lemon Drop Kid
A Nom-Review by Prof. Popinjay My modern sensibilities see these old posters and my initial thought is words. A lot of words. I stare at the poster and I see the words and they do not enter my mind. I think they’re names? Then there’s a picture of Bob Hope…
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Kid from Brooklyn (The)
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay I like Danny Kaye’s films. I like the segments where Danny Kaye is allowed to be Danny Kaye for an extended period of time. Sometimes I wish these two things weren’t combined though. The plots of his films are humorous and enjoyable but the segments…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 