Category: D
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Death on the Nile (2022)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay As the second installment of Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Death on the Nile, I was expecting something as epic and thrilling as the previous Murder on the Orient Express. Frankly I found this one just kind of sad. It was well performed and…
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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Weird. Just weird. This was as weird as Time Bandits or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen or Brazil. That might be because all these were directed by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame. I mention these particular films because these were part of a trifecta…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Saw The Last Voyage of the Demeter tonight. For those who haven’t read Bram Stoker’s book, the Demeter is the ship what ran aground in the London harbor with no surviving crew. Little did the investigating constabulary know, this ship carried in its cargo the…
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Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a Half Century: The Series
Fantastic from beginning to end. Thirty-eight episodes of pure genius comedy gold. Every episode starts with the theme sung by Mr. Thunderball himself, Tom Jones. That alone would make this show worth it. I loved/was triggered by the episode where Cadet Porky is inexplicably replaced by a buxom bombshell in…
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The Dark Tower
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay —–I’ve not been able to decide for a long time. Is Stephen King a good writer? I think he must be. His books are very popular after all. I’ve never read them as I am not a fan of horror. There’s obviously a call to…
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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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“The Legend of Drunken Master”(aka: Jui Kuen II)
A Non-review by Prof. Popinjay It’s a masterpiece.