Category: Non-Reviews
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Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Big Foot
A Non-Review by Prof. Popinjay With a title like “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot” you’d think I’d know what to expect. Frankly I was clueless. They don’t title movies this way anymore. I mean there’s movies like “Sharknado” which is kind of a self explanatory title.…
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Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
A Non-Review by Prof. Popinjay It’s fascinating to me how the regard for a film can be so based on time and chance. So many films didn’t do well simply because of the other films against which they were forced to compete at the time they were in theatres. Other…
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Little Miss Marker (1934)
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay All throughout this film I’d felt like I’d seen it before but then I could have sworn it was Bob Hope playing the male lead and Shirley Temple was not in it. Some research solved my riddle. For whatever reason, this story has been made…
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Mummy’s Ghost (The) & The Mummy’s Curse
A Non-Review by Prof. Popinjay These are two entries from the myriad of follow-ups to the original 1932 universal film. Strange that they would still star Karloff or Lon Chaney and in many cases still be produced by Universal and yet not be considered official sequels but I think this…
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MUNSTERS (The) TV SHOW AND MOVIES
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay -As my usual goal with my non-reviews is to introduce readers to old movie gems they might have missed, I debated whether I should do a treatise on the Munsters at all. Who hasn’t heard of them? Then I met a guy who hadn’t heard…
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Mulholland Falls
A Non-Review by Prof. Popinjay [To adhere to the author’s original vision, this article is purposefully presented in black and white.] (A sad saxophone plays)I’ve been working this job for sixteen years. It’s the kind of job you can turn your brain off and just do; the kind of job…
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Bright Eyes
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay Yes, this is a Shirley Temple film. Yes, they tacked on reprisals from her other musicals. It’s also a sweet story. I’ve seen it before but when I realized I put it into my watchin’ queue I watched it again because, dang it, I like…
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Dark Phoenix
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay Hmmmmm. Yeah? I mean… I liked the last ones. Days of Future Past was cool. I don’t know… this one? Dark Phoenix? Didn’t we do this one already? Feels like we did this one. Michael Faßbender is in this one! Christopher Plummer 2, as a…
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Cars 2
A Non-Review by Prof. Popinjay I don’t know where to start with this one. Ultimately I liked it but it perplexes me. It’s kind of strange critiquing a movie where cars are the characters when I am not myself a mechanic. Do I criticize their acting performance or their mechanical…
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Just Around the Corner
A Non-Review by Prof. Popinjay I’m sorry. I promise, I’m almost through them and then we can move on to Pokémon and Terminator films. I didn’t mean for it to be this way. It’s just that my phase one movie collection is all these old song and dance numbers. There’s…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 