Category: Non-Reviews
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Gnomeo & Juliet
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2011) Just when I thought the story of Romeo and Juliet couldn’t get any weirder than Troma Team’s “Tromeo & Juliet” (1996) or Hallmark’s “The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns” (1999), they (gnomes, obviously) go and make something like this. I was avidly avoiding this…
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Leprechauns (The Magical Legend of the)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1999) While starting my Non-review of “Gnomeo and Juliet” I realized this treatise on “The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns” never made it over to this platform. First published July 22, 2017. Enjoy. Ah, Halmark movies! Each one is three hours long because what else…
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Half Baked
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1998) Friends at school would ask me if I had seen movies like this. My knee jerk response was “Why would I want to watch a movie about people doing drugs?” Then one day Kevin Bacon taught me to dance! That’s not a euphemism for…
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Philo Vance Mysteries
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay WARNING! THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MULTIPLE PICTURES OF OLD WHITE GUYS! This Non-review will focus on the following titles: I hope I don’t get demonetized for using the word “murder” so many times. Haha! Just kidding. I’m not monetized. Murder murder murder! Say, what’s the angle…
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Gattaca
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1997) WARNING! THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND THE WORD “EYELASHES” ABOUT 20 TIMES PER PARAGRAPH! IF YOU HAVE ANY AVERSION TO SPOILERS OR EYELASH COMMENTARY OR EYELASH RELATED HUMOR AVERT YOUR EYESLASHES NOW! YOU WERE WARNED! Hey! Do you love eyelashes! I know! Who doesn’t,…
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Top Secret!
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1984) I suppose I’ll have to put this warning here: SPOILERS! ALOT OF SPOILERS! OMG SO MANY SPOILERS! I SPOIL SO MUCH OF THIS FILM AND I’M SORRY! JUST GO WATCH THIS FIRST AND COME BACK AND READ IT, OKAY!?! THEN I WON’T FEEL SO…
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Fantasia & Fantasia 2000
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Fantasia (1940) Fantasia 2000 (1999) Disney’s Fantasia was meant to be an ongoing project with new featurettes being constantly added and other parts gradually being retired with every new theatrical release. Personally I thought this was a neat idea but sadly Disney kicked this off…
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An Endearing Reply from Peter S. Beagle, Author of The Last Unicorn
Exciting news! I have had the distinct pleasure of receiving a reply from Peter S. Beagle in response to my Non-review regarding The Last Unicorn which I sent to him for his approval. I have attached his response to the original Non-review and I post his response again here: “Dear…
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Last Unicorn (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1982) Sorry it’s been a minute since my last blog, I’ve been drawing a pickle car and building medieval weaponry for my children. Wow, this was deep! Deeper than I care to go right now. There are countless videos on YouTube which go into the…
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Edward Scissorhands
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1990) As I was still identifying through my parents when this first came out, I turned my nose up at this just like they did. It looked dark and spooky and NOT for the likes of us! This is not to present my parents as…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 