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Category: Black Heritage Month

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

December 29, 2015December 30, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘Chi-Raq’ Brings Greek Comedy to Chicago

September 6, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘American Masters: Althea’ gives Gibson her due

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 Jana J. Monji

Independent Lens: ‘Evolution of a Criminal’

December 27, 2014December 27, 2014 Jana J. Monji

Why ‘Selma’ should be screened in Pasadena

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  • ‘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
  • ‘Wreck-It Ralph’: Some Bad Guys Are Good✮✮✮✮ November 24, 2018
    I was out of state when the 2012 “Wreck-It Ralph” came out, but, in order to better understand the sequel, “Ralph Wrecks the Internet,” I watched the fun 3D animated film which is available on Amazon Prime. Not being a big fan of video games, I’m sure there are a lot of in-jokes that passed […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Native America’: Perfect Intellectual Fare for Thanksgiving✮✮✮✮✮ November 23, 2018
    In Season 1 of “Native America,” the PBS four-episode series left me wanting more–more information, more education and more episodes. What most people know about the Americas before the Europeans, is appallingly minute and what we learned in schools is sadly lacking. What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving or a belated Indigenous Peoples Day? In […] […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ – A Winning Sequel ✮✮✮✮ November 14, 2018
    If you missed the 2012 3D computer animated feature film, “Wreck-It Ralph,” you might feel a bit puzzled, but still you’ll be able to enjoy “Ralph Breaks the Internet.” This film is really a must-see for Disney princess fans. The premise for the first movie, “Wreck-It Ralph,” is that at night when the Litwak’s Family Fun […]
    Jana J. Monji
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