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Category: Family

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Jana J. Monji

‘How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World’: Love and Family ☆☆☆☆☆

December 14, 2018 Jana J. Monji

‘Mary Poppins Returns’: Cheery Note for Our Times ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎

November 24, 2018 Jana J. Monji

‘Wreck-It Ralph’: Some Bad Guys Are Good✮✮✮✮

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 Jana J. Monji

‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’: Window Dressing Without Substance ✮

June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 Jana J. Monji

Worth the Wait: ‘Incredibles 2’ ✮✮✮✮✮

November 24, 2017 Jana J. Monji

‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ Not Inventive Enough ✮✮

September 30, 2017 Jana J. Monji

‘Victoria & Abdul’: A Loving Look at a Friendship that Threatened an Empire ✮✮✮

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  • ‘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
  • ‘Shazam’: Goofy Good Guy Learns Family Values ☆☆☆☆ March 25, 2019
    “Shazam!” isn’t so much a name as a catchy acronym for a superhero (once known as Captain Marvel before legal difficulties  nixed that nom de guerre) who has the “wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury.” For reasons that will become clear […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Captain Marvel’ a Blast at 270-Degree ScreenX Format March 24, 2019
    ScreenX sounds suspiciously like this would be a made-for-adults format, but with family-oriented action movie like “Captain Marvel” you have a bit more of a rush. What is ScreenX? You still face forward without special 3D glasses and are watching on a big screen. The room is a black box and you’ll notice the dark […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘The Photographer of Mauthausen’: Spanish Refugee and POW to Nuremberg Witness ☆☆☆☆ March 24, 2019
    “The Photographer of Mauthausen” (“El fotógrafo de Mauthausen“) is an elegantly solemn 2018 Spanish biographical film that should be seen by every student of history and photography. Currently, the film is streaming on Netflix, but has nudity (male), violence and troubling issues of race, ethnicity and medical ethics as it recounts the story of Francisco Boi […]
    Jana J. Monji
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