Category: Non-Reviews
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Man Alone (A)
First published Aug 14, 2017 —–I liked A Man Alone while the man was actually alone. Unfortunately he was only alone for about five minutes. Even the METAPHOR of him being alone didn’t last act one. They should have called this A Man Surrounded by a Bunch of Trigger-Happy Accusative…
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (A) (1949)
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay So I was today years old when I learned how to spell “Connecticut”. It still doesn’t look right. I’ve always pronounced it “Cuh-NEH-TIH-cut”. Oh well. I get this film mixed up with Danny Kaye’s The Court Jester which I found to be a bit unfocused…
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Cricket on the Hearth
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay This is a Rankin and Bass animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale. This is a hand drawn animation as opposed to the usual stop-motion Rankin and Bass production such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the like. Nevertheless the art style is recognizable.…
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Cowboys (The) (1972)
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay An elderly John Wayne plays an elderly cattle rustler who can’t find a trustworthy crew of semi-elderly men to help him move a huge number of cattle a great distance to market. Rather than hire the local band of lying no-good semi-elderly misfits, elderly Wayne…
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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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