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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 ✭✭✭

September 15, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Queen of Katwe’ Brings a Powerful Message ✭✭✭✭

August 5, 2016 Jana J. Monji

SDCC 2016: ‘An Animated Life’ of a Comic-Con Regular

August 3, 2016August 21, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold’: Continued Inequalities

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    If you think of elected officials as people who smile too much and practice saying the right thing instead of speaking with sincerity, Kristina Wong, is here to show you can have a prickly personality and win an elected office.   Wong begins “Kristina Wong for Public Office” dressed in a white pants suit that […]
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    Produced by Pearl Studio and Netflix Animation and animated by Sony Pictures, “Over the Moon” is a lovely computer-animated adventure, suitable for little kids and adults who are still kids at heart. If you love bunnies, you may squeal with delight. This film is the perfect treat to watch while eating mooncakes with voices provided […]
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    In the quieter moments of the 2020 Netflix adaptation of “Rebecca,” the chemistry between Lily James and Armie Hammer as newlyweds could set a house on fire and the malevolent spitefulness of Kristin Scott Thomas as the first wife’s bestie is pure poison. Yet those moments of cinematic fire are few. Director Ben Wheatley doesn’t […]
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    When someone asks you what you did during the COVID-19 lockdown, you probably won’t come up with this doozy. Chinese American filmmaker Hao Wu reached out and had virtual meetings with two Chinese reporters (Weixi Chen and Anonymous) and together this threesome made a documentary about the panicky 76 days in Wuhan, China in four […]
    Jana J. Monji
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