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Category: Family

November 21, 2019November 22, 2019 Jana J. Monji

‘Frozen II’: Romance, Fashion and Family Secrets ☆☆☆

September 27, 2019 Jana J. Monji

‘Abominable’ Is Adorable! ☆☆☆☆☆

June 13, 2019June 21, 2019 Jana J. Monji

‘Toy Story 4’: What I Do for Love

May 22, 2019May 27, 2019 Jana J. Monji

‘Aladdin’ : Charming Cast Searches for a Better Director ☆

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 ✮✮

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  • PBS: Miss Scarlet and the Duke January 17, 2021
    The year is 1882 and Miss Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips of “The Crown”) has a tip, but from an undependable source and that ends with her in the possession of a glass eye. Miss Scarlet has ambitions to work on her own, but she’s not quite ready. In flashbacks, we see how her father has […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • The Melancholy of ‘Minari’ ☆☆☆☆☆ January 15, 2021
    During one of my May sojourns in pursuit of an AKC championship, I crossed a changing landscape, going from worrying about traffic jams in Los Angeles to worrying about having enough water in a two-hour traffic jam in Texas to worry about my car being waterlogged in Arkansas. Cities and signs became scarce. Arkansas was […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Law & Order: SVU, Season 22, Episode 5–‘Turn Me on Take Me Private’ Missed Opportunity January 14, 2021
    “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” began its 22nd season addressing racism and the uneasy relationship between the public and the police in New York City due to systemic racism, but that’s been limited to a binary of Black and White. This week’s episode, “Turn Me on Take Me Private” seems to be the perfect […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Law and Order: SVU’ Returns with a COVID-19 New Year’s January 8, 2021
    Are you feeling good on the seventh day into the new year of 2021? In “Sightless in a Savage Land,” you learn some icky things, that on New Year’s Eve, sex trafficking is big business and there’s lots of money to be made out of a 13-year-old girl. The missing girl, Nydia Davis (Vanessa Carrasco), […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Pondering on ‘The Midnight Sky’ ☆☆☆☆ December 27, 2020
    So much has been written about George Clooney’s beard in his new film, “The Midnight Sky,” you’d think it played a major role in the film. The beard is thick and grizzled and shaped with the expertise of a show poodle’s grooming, but the rest of Clooney’s coiffure has been shaped more like a careless […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Finding Yingying’: Listening to the Voices of Three Women ☆☆☆ December 24, 2020
    “Finding Yingying” begins with a howl of despair. It’s the voice of a mother, speaking the international language of a great tragedy–outliving one’s offspring. By the end, director Jiayan Jenny Shi has conjured up the image of a promising young scientist whose exciting adventure into a new world ended in death. At a time when […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Wonder Woman 1984’: A Woeful Waste of Time and Talent ✮✮ December 24, 2020
    Patty Jenkins’ sequel fo the 2017 “Wonder Woman” is a bloated excuse for reuniting Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman/Diana Prince with her true love, Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor. There are some moments that delight, a brief one about 1980s fashions and a special cameo by the 1970s Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, but that’s not enough to […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Letter to the NAACP: History of Lynching December 13, 2020
    hollywoodbureau@naacpnet.org washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org @NAACP   Dear NAACP: I noticed that on your page, “History of Lynching,” although you do not attribute your figures, you are using the numbers from the Tuskegee Institute. That means the history you present has a definite bias because it is well-known that the Tuskegee Institute divided people into a […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Letter to PBS SoCal: Race in America? December 13, 2020
    Comments@PBSSoCal.org @PBS on Twitter To Whom It May Concern: I was skimming through the offerings and you have a category for “Race in America,” however, with the exception of “College Behind Bars” all of the listed videos are about Black people. Central Park Five College Behind Bars East Lake Meadows Driving While Black T-Rex: Her […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘The Sound of Music’ Film Lyrics December 2, 2020
    If you’re watching the film version of “The Sound of Music” for the umpteenth time, and want to sing along, this post is for you. All of the songs from the original soundtrack are here in order. If there are problems, please send me an email.    Original Soundtrack Release: Prelude and “The Sound of […]
    Jana J. Monji
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