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Category: Mark Taper Forum

April 4, 2019 Jana J. Monji

‘Lackawanna Blues’: How to Color Your Life with Love

November 8, 2018 Jana J. Monji

‘Valley of the Heart’: Earnest But Unfocused☆☆

September 21, 2018 Jana J. Monji

The Fable of ‘Sweat’ Equity ✮✮✮✮✮

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Jana J. Monji

‘Head of Passes’: God and Getting What You Ask For ✮✮✮✮

July 8, 2017 Jana J. Monji

Less Science and More Chaos in ‘Heisenberg’ ✮✮

October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘Appropriate’ needs editing to strengthen this look a ghosts of the past

August 12, 2015 Jana J. Monji

The bittersweet revelations of ‘Bent’

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  • ‘Andhadhun’: Beware the Blind Man ☆☆☆☆☆ April 21, 2019
    This 2018 Indian black comedy “Andhadhun.” which in Hindi means, according to Wikipedia, “The Blind Melody,” is too good a thriller not to pique some Hollywood hack. Surely it will be redone in English before a decade passes, but don’t wait for that. This Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Matchbox Pictures production stars the legendary actress […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Love and One ‘Photograph’ ☆☆☆☆☆ April 21, 2019
    There are some mothers with whom one should never shop. Living at home, Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) doesn’t even get a choice of the colors she wears. Her mother prefers pink. The daughter prefers a vibrant yellow. You have to wonder what she is allowed to do by herself. Although she is shopping together with her […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Bi Gan’s Latest Is a Poetic, Poignant ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ ☆☆☆☆☆ April 21, 2019
    In this world, you can’t go home. Things will not be the same and everywhere, memories linger in places that once were and place remain. “Bi Gan’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night” ( 地球最後的夜晚) takes the name of a famous 1957 Pulitzer Prize winning play that earned the playwright Eugene O’Neill a 1956 Tony. The O’Neill […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • 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
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