Category: Non-Reviews
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It’s a Great Feeling
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay By now you’re probably wondering if I watch anything but Shirley Temple and Doris Day films. I confess, I’m getting kind of sick of them but I’m swallowing the frog here so once I’m through with them maybe I can get on to films pertaining…
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I’ll See You in My Dreams 1951
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay No this is not a Nightmare on Elm Street film as one might assume from the title. Gus Kahn was a real-life songwriter who wrote such memorable songs as “It Had to Be You”, “Makin’ Whoopie”, “Love Me or Leave Me”, “Memories”, “Ain’t We Got…
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Great Santini (The)
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay Alright, strap in because I’m about to get nasty. I know most films I see inspire a quickly scribbled paragraph and a joke or two but this is not one of those. This one gripped me. Fair warning: If you’re not in the mood for…
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Good Neighbor Sam
A Non-Review by Prof Popinjay I’ll get right into the plot. It’s a little complicated but funny. Jack is a visionary working and not making much progress in an advertising firm. Edward G. Robinson, in an unusual casting, is a clean upstanding moral family man and dairy farmer seeking an…
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Gang Busters
A Non-Review by Prof Popinjay There’s a lot to unpack here. This is a 1952 serial played in episodes at the start of a feature presentation back when for 15 cents you got a live dance, a newsreel, and a cartoon before the movie or you could legally burn down…
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Facing the Giants
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay It’s a sports movie… therefore it’s good. This is another film directed by Alex Kendrick along with Courageous, Flywheel, and most notable Fireproof with Kirk Cameron. Some of these films deal with heart wrenching subjects and while those subjects are important to deal with, I…
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Covenant Rider
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay There was nothing I didn’t like about this movie. It was a gripping story with plenty of humor and drama and a good ending. The part I appreciated most was the fellow who, even though he was pressured to join a band of misfits against…
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Court Martial of Billy Mitchel
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay As soon as I realized this wasn’t an Abbott and Costello film I was so disinterested. But I watched it anyway and I’m so glad I did. The title “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell” conjures images of some goof-off in the military getting canned…
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Count of Monte Cristo (1974)
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay I used to be a fan of the 2002 version of “The Count of Monte Cristo” with Jim Caviezel. That is until I saw the 1974 version. The 2002 version had a Hollywood ending where all the good guys were happy and the bad guys…
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Cold River
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Another movie about two kids lost in the wilderness? Oh no! Did Pa find his Super 8 camera again? And after we tried so hard to hide it from him after his last cinematic masterpiece Black Thunder Mountain. Okay so it’s not the same “film…
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