Category: Non-Reviews
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New Gods: Nezha Reborn
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2019) Hey! Finally a Chinese folklore film with a very specific title! And this one DOES have a sequel with New Gods: Yang Jian. Incidentally, this film has nothing to do with The Monkey King Reborn (2021). I’m guessing “Reborn” in China is like “Mt.…
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Nezha (2019)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Like Sun Wukong (Aka The Monkey King) there are many movies about Nezha. Some of these stories are pretty accurate to the original folklore. Others have elements from the original stories but kind of take their own path. Nezha (2019) is one of these. Before…
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2025) MILD SPOILERS! Don’t worry! I’m not here to wax philosophical about this big-budget well-to-do soap opera. I watched the first episode of season one and that was just a couple months ago. The only reason I was curious at all was because I thought…
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Tron to Tron: Ares (Part 4 of 4)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay !!!WARNING! POSSIBLE AND/OR DEFINITE MILD AND/OR PICANTE SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING TITLES¡¡¡ With the Blu-ray release of Tron-Legacy we got a short called Tron: The Next Day. This 11 minute video sets up a sequel in a very non-committal way, throwing us bones but with…
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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…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 