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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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  • Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’ Season 1, Episode 3: ‘John Chinaman’ April 20, 2019
    You’ve heard of John Doe, but that is, at least in Cinemax’s “Warrior” reserved for unidentified white people. Our “John Chinaman” of the episode’s title is unidentified not because he’s dead and has no identification papers, but because he wants to be incognito. The theme of this episode is who knows and who does not. […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Between Science Fiction and Real Fears: PBS ‘Cyberwork and the American Dream’ a Must-See☆☆☆ April 19, 2019
    Science fiction has become a major genre in our society where we use WiFi every day and kids no longer use analog clocks and you’re more likely to use GPS to figure out your car routes than a map, and through science fiction we see our technophobic nightmares. That is nothing new. Even before everyone […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Not a False Note in ‘Falsettos’ ☆☆☆ April 19, 2019
    “Falsettos” helped define a new type of family, a blended one that included a gay dad leaving his wife for life and love with a man and instead of being emotionally scarred the son from his heterosexual union is what brings the family together. The production at the Ahmanson which opened last night, (Wednesday, 17 […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Missing Link’ Misses the Mark ☆☆ April 14, 2019
    The “Missing Link” hasn’t been missing at the local comic book conventions. The three main characters–Mr. Link, Sir Lionel Frost and Adelina Fortnight–were at the September 2018 and February 2019 Long Beach Comic-Cons and March 2019 WonderCon, but this fifth feature film from from LAIKA Studios doesn’t seem to have a particular audience in mind […] […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’ Season 1, Episode 2: ‘There’s No China in the Bible’ April 14, 2019
    Not being that familiar with the Bible, I can’t be sure, “there’s no China in the Bible,” but at least there should be Asia because Jesus Christ was Asian, but there is, of course, plenty of Chinese in Chinatown in San Francisco, but the problem comes when the Chinese venture outside of their assigned ghetto […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’ Season 1, Episode 1: ‘The Itchy Onion’ April 14, 2019
    Cinemax bills “Warrior” as “what Bruce Lee would have wanted” and in the credits notes this is “based on the writings” of San Francisco’s own native-born legend. Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, his only surviving child, is on board this production as a producer so that’s a plus, but do we really know what Bruce Lee […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’ : Racial Tension during the Rise of Yellow Perilism in San Francisco April 14, 2019
    Cinemax’s “Warrior” is San Francisco history of racial tension served from a Chinese point of view with a good helping of Chinese martial art fighting and some soft porn on the side. F-bombs frequently explode along with racial epithets. Full frontal female nudity is presented in the forgiving soft light while male back sides displayed […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Lackawanna Blues’: How to Color Your Life with Love April 4, 2019
    It’s unlikely that I will ever make it to Lackawanna, New York. The beauty that Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes in “Lackawanna Blues”  may have disappeared with the woman who created it. Santiago-Hudson’s one-man show (with musical accompaniment provided by Chris Thomas King on guitar and some mean harmonic playing by Santiago-Hudson himself) is just the tic […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • El Capitan: The Place to View Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ ☆☆☆☆ March 26, 2019
    First, the bad…I was incredibly disappointed that the Disney Store–online and off–had no special character Dumbo (or even Timothy the Mouse) hoodie for kids. I was prepared to purchase one just to set the mood for the press screening of the new live-action Dumbo on Monday, but the circus (in a good way) mood was […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Naila and the Uprising’ : Filling the Gaps about the Palestine-Israeli Reality March 25, 2019
    You might think that a 2017 documentary about an event that took place in the 1980s would be old news, but consider the recent accusations against Ilhan Omar. It’s not easy even in the US to criticize Israel without being called anti-Semitic and that’s what makes “Naila and the Uprising” (Tuesday, March 26 at 9:00 […]
    Jana J. Monji
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