Category: Non-Reviews
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Tron to Tron: Ares (Part 3 of 4)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay !!!WARNING! POSSIBLE AND/OR DEFINITE MILD AND/OR PICANTE SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING TITLES¡¡¡ The animated series “Tron: Uprising” would come out on Disney XD (😆?) in 2012 but would take place chronologically before “Legacy”. In “Uprising” we learn that the Tron program (again voiced by Boxleitner)…
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Tron to Tron: Ares (Part 2 of 4)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay !!!WARNING! POSSIBLE AND/OR DEFINITE MILD AND/OR PICANTE SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING TITLES¡¡¡ Arcade game tie-ins with Tron were an obvious direction for the merchandising even in a then fledgling (and soon to be crashing) video game market. The original “Tron” cabinet was festooned with neon…
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Tron to Tron: Ares (Part 1 of 4)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay !!!WARNING! POSSIBLE AND/OR DEFINITE MILD AND/OR PICANTE SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING TITLES¡¡¡ First conceived as a completely animated feature, postulated as having little practical value beyond a brief runtime, and eschewed by most production companies until Disney saw its potential, Tron (1982) would become a…
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The Monkey King Reborn (2021)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Sorry I haven’t posted feverishly throughout the week like I usually do but I’m on a Tron kick right now and the research has led me down some pretty crazy rabbit holes. Also, I ate some really weird cake and grew to a hundred times…
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Jack Frost (1964)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Also known as: Father Frost Russian title: Морозко (Morozko “Frosty” in English) There are a lot of movies called “Jack Frost”. There’s the one where Michael Keaton becomes a snowman and teaches us to live, laugh, and love. There’s the terrible horror movie and its…
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Repo! The Genetic Opera
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2008) Anyone ever wonder what Alexa Vega got into after Spy Kids? Me neither but here we are. Ironically the thing that caught my attention for Spy Kids is the same thing that caught my attention for Repo! The Genetic Opera. Ten points if you…
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Lucy, The Funny World of…
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1997) Yeah, it was manufactured in 1997 but the 7 or so clips from 1955, used in this multi-hour long “special” documentary were clearly dug out of the bottom of the cutting room refuse barrel scheduled for disposal. I assume this reel fell out as…
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City of the Lost Children
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1995) Mon Dieu! This was a weird movie! I liked it though. The French film industry tends to eschew special effects, often considering it diluting the cinematic artform. City of the Lost Children directors Jean-Pierre Juenet and Marc Caro threw this predilection to the wind…
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Warm Bodies
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2013) When I started watching this, I couldn’t imagine why I had missed it. I speculated maybe I deemed it as not my cup of tea. I’m sure it’s well established here, I’m not a fan of certain types of horror. I must have decided…
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1996) I wrote about how this influenced me back in the 90’s. Guh, that’s ambiguous. It did influence me back in the 90’s but I did not write about it back in the 90’s. I wrote about this film’s influence on me when I was…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 