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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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  • Think Twice Before You ‘Ride’ with ‘American Dreamer’ ✮✮✮ September 29, 2018
    In this sharing economy, people seem to operate as if everyone could be trusted. That’s how many college students start out: They want to treat the dorm as one big happy family and as they move out into a big city like Los Angeles, why not just call someone who has a good rating to […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Brian Banks’: A Cautionary Tale in our #MeToo Times ✮✮✮✮ September 29, 2018
    The story of Brian Banks is a local one, but echoes national concerns about believing rape survivors in the wake of Christine Margaret Blasey Ford accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  Stephen Farber, writing for the Hollywood Reporter wrote, “The only thing wrong with ‘Brian Banks,’ a powerful film that had its world premiere at the [… […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Ms. Geek Speaks: Emily Post Institute’s Pet Etiquette Outdated (and Misocynist) September 24, 2018
    Dear Emily Post Institute: While I highly respect and even own your “Emily Post’s Etiquette (18th Edition),” this weekend I was alarmed to find that under the chapter “Living with Neighbors” (page 72-73) your subsection entitled “Pets” only deals with how dogs should be controlled.  Specifically, you detail that incessant dog barking, damaging neighbors’ pro […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Take Time for ‘The House with a Clock in its Walls’ ✮✮✮✮ September 21, 2018
    “The House with a Clock in its Walls” is an uncomplicated story about loss and the healing power of magic and love. An orphaned boy finds danger at school and home as he settles in with his uncle and learns to be a warlock. The movie has gentle delights and mild scares, making it good […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • The Fable of ‘Sweat’ Equity ✮✮✮✮✮ September 21, 2018
    Living in Los Angeles, you might not think that Reading, Pennsylvania has much in common with our local population, with theater goers at the Mark Taper Forum. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about working class friends in 2000 and 2008, explores the belief in sweat-equity and the betrayal by faceless CEOs that doesn’t stop with […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Was ‘The Predator’ Written by a Dog-Hating Cat Owner? ✮ September 12, 2018
    Going into “The Predator” my main question was: Can my beloved Sterling K. Brown from one of my favorite TV dramas, “This Is Us,” save this film. Leaving the film: I has a question about physics and physiometry and, more simplistically: Was this script written by a dog-hating cat owner? This is the sixth or […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • SDCC 2018: ‘Yellow Submarine’ Graphic Novel August 29, 2018
    “Yellow Submarine” turned 50 in July and for those who were born too late to truly appreciate the Summer of Love and the Beatles psychedelic phase, you can still celebrate: This week, Bill Morrison’s graphic novel of the movie comes out (Titan Comics) complete with a new poster and you can watched a cleaned-up restored […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Ain’t Too Proud’: The Temptations and Temptation, a Musical History ✮✮✮✮ August 26, 2018
    Opening night for “Ain’t Too Proud” was music and Motown memories. The audience included the man who made it happen, Berry Gordy (88); one of the original Supremes, Mary Wilson (74), and the man of the musical: baritone Big Daddy Otis Williams (76). The full name of the musical is “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Ms. Geek Speaks: Why US Citizens Don’t Recognize West Asia as…Well Asia August 25, 2018
    People seem to be confused on what is Asia. I know this because of a Twitterstorm around just where Egypt is (Hint: It is both in Asia AND Africa) and because I know where Asia is (including Israel) and I know the definition of Asian American (according to Merriam Webster: “: an American of Asian descent”). […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Searching’ for Normalcy ✮✮✮✮ August 24, 2018
    “Searching” will look oddly familiar. Filmed from the distorting perspective of smartphones and computers, vlogs and social media moments, “Searching” examines how one can have “friends” but feel isolated in a world dominated by social media. The focus is on a broken family–not through divorce but by death. David Kim (John Cho) is a widower, […] […]
    Jana J. Monji
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