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Category: Black Heritage Month

January 20, 2018 Jana J. Monji

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: ‘Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart’ ✮✮✮✮

November 24, 2016 Jana J. Monji

AFI FEST 2016: ‘Carmen Jones’ ✭✭✭

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise’

October 10, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Roots’ 2016✭✭✭, ‘Django’ and #BlackLivesMatter

October 10, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

Remembering Robert Shaw and the 1989 ‘Glory’✭✭✭✭✭

October 7, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘The Birth of a Nation’ Continues Legacy of Controversy✭✭✭

September 21, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Free State of Jones’ an Important, But Flawed Film ✭✭✭

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  • ‘Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse’ : In Sci-Fi, Bad Housekeeping Multiplies the Spider-verse☆☆☆☆ December 14, 2018
    At the end of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” you’ll be convinced that no one learned from the 1957 George Langelaan’s short story, “The Fly.” No matter how mad you are as a scientist, you need to think about good housekeeping and that includes flies and spiders. In the case of Spider-Man, you have to think […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Aquaman’ : Hard-Drinking Hunk of the Sea ☆☆☆ December 14, 2018
    Growing up coastal, I dreamed of swimming with dolphins and yet recognized both the horror and the wonder of the oceans. What person leaving coastal hasn’t known someone or heard of someone who drowned on what was to have been a joyful day at the beach? In his first DC universe outing, James Wan gives us […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Mary Poppins Returns’: Cheery Note for Our Times ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ December 14, 2018
    “Mary Poppins Returns” won’t replace the original 1964 “Mary Poppins,” but it does ask for a corner in the carpet bag of your heart as a glowing homage to the Julie Andrews-Dick Van Dyke pairing and the music by Sherman Brothers. Director Rob Marshall provides us with plenty of Easter eggs, nods and winks to […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Come From Away’: A Ticket to Hope ✮✮✮✮✮ November 30, 2018
    On that morning, I was driving up the hill to a job teaching a set of spoiled young women. I was working the wrong job, living in the wrong place and involved with the wrong guy. In the next year, all that would change. There was a moment when I was united in horror, transfixed […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Mary Queen of Scots’: The Tale of Two Queens in a Man’s World ✮✮✮ November 24, 2018
    The tale of the ill-fated queen of Scotland is really the story of two queens–Mary and Elizabeth, cousins of different religions.  “Mary Queen of Scots,” which made its world premiere as the closing gala of AFI FEST 2018, follows some of the conceits of the 1971 movie of the same name, but also gives us […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Rob Marshall and ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ at AFI FEST 2018 November 24, 2018
    Although I still cringe at every mention of “Memoirs of a Geisha” (and I’ve read the book, but not seen the whole movie), my childhood affection for Disney’s “Mary Poppins” and Dick Van Dyke made me an eager attendee of “Razzle Dazzle ‘Em! A Conversation with Rob Marshall ” at the TCL Chinese on Monday […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2018: ‘Bird Box’✮✮ November 24, 2018
    Even on what appears to be a clear day, when the sky is a turquoise blue with a few wispy clouds, what you can’t see can hurt you. I was talking to another AFI FEST attendee who was suffering since the weekend from burning eyes from the ash-filled atmosphere due to the nearby California wildfires. […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2018: Two Oscar-Winners a Fine Odd Couple in ‘The Kominsky Method’ November 24, 2018
    Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas) is three-times divorced and struggling to find guest-starring roles on TV as he hits old age. His agent and best friend, Norman (Alan Arkin) becomes widowed after 42 years in the first episode. Together they struggle to get through life in Chuck Lorre’s new Netflix series about Hollywood has-beens and wanna-bes: “The […] […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2018: ‘On the Basis of Sex,’ A Super Hero Origin Tale ✮✮✮ November 24, 2018
    Every super hero needs an origin story and almost half a year after the documentary “RBG” raked in $14.3 million,  “On the Basis of Sex,” a film that tells how Ruth Bader Ginsburg  began her trailblazing Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, made its world premiere as the opening gala movie for […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2018: Plunging into Human Darkness in ‘I Am the Night’ ✮✮✮✮ November 24, 2018
    A Reno, Nevada high school girl with grey eyes lives teetering on the border between black and white, girlhood and womanhood. Her mother is black, but she is light-skinned and has hair that curls, but isn’t kinky. Fauna Hodel (India Eisley) has eyes for a dark-skinned boy named Lewis whom her mother claims is no […]
    Jana J. Monji
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