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Category: Outside of Pasadena

January 22, 2020 Jana J. Monji

‘Volta’ May Jumpstart your New Year’s Resolutions ☆☆☆☆

January 20, 2020January 22, 2020 Jana J. Monji

Tim Robbins’ ‘New Colossus’: Heartfelt Collective Storytelling

September 20, 2017 Jana J. Monji

‘Big Night’ Is Big Fun ✮✮✮

November 12, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Toruk: The First Flight’ Doesn’t Exactly Soar

July 7, 2016 Jana J. Monji

Different star-crossed lovers for Tanabata: Romeo & Juliet

September 12, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘The Object Lesson’ is a look at the objects in our lives

February 20, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘Cineastas’ is theater for filmmakers and multi-taskers

January 14, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘Half-Life’ at REDCAT creatively examines Fukushima nuclear disaster

September 5, 2014 Jana J. Monji

Dinosaurs invade Anaheim

September 5, 2014 Jana J. Monji

Don’t walk, run to see “Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular

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  • ‘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
  • A Winning ‘Kristina Wong for Public Office’ November 23, 2020
    If you think of elected officials as people who smile too much and practice saying the right thing instead of speaking with sincerity, Kristina Wong, is here to show you can have a prickly personality and win an elected office.   Wong begins “Kristina Wong for Public Office” dressed in a white pants suit that […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Jackie Chan in a Wildly Out of Touch ‘Vanguard’ ☆ November 21, 2020
    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to view a Communist-vehicle starring Jackie Chan to see if it is really as bad as everyone says it is and if there are any redeeming martial arts sequences because no one really goes to a Jackie Chan film for the plot (or the good acting). […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness’ and Tigers of SoCal ☆☆☆ November 20, 2020
    Animal hoarders are often animal rescuers gone wrong. I think that applies to people who handle tigers, now brought to light by the Netflix documentary limited series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”  You might not recall, but Southern California had a few tiger incidents, too. In 2003, a morning raid in Riverside County found […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2020: ‘Wolfwalkers’ ☆☆☆☆ November 15, 2020
    Watching “Wolfwalkers” reminded me of a brief moment when I started a howling chorus. In my case, it was coyotes at a zoo. With my initial howl, there was one, then two and then quickly more began to join in the chorus. It was oddly satisfying and less nerve-wracking than being part of a chorus […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Revisiting Orwell’s ‘1984’ in the Twilight of the WH Trumpian Era November 14, 2020
    After an exhausting five days around the presidential election, I spent Saturday (7 November 2020) watching the CBS Westinghouse Studio One version of George Orwell’s “1984.” On Sunday, I reviewed my 2016 essay (“Watching ‘1984’ in Trump’s America” and on my blog)After nearly four years under the smog of Trumpland, the weekend saw a hopeful […] […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Netflix: A Wonderful Modern Twist on a Legend in ‘Over the Moon’ ☆☆☆☆ October 23, 2020
    Produced by Pearl Studio and Netflix Animation and animated by Sony Pictures, “Over the Moon” is a lovely computer-animated adventure, suitable for little kids and adults who are still kids at heart. If you love bunnies, you may squeal with delight. This film is the perfect treat to watch while eating mooncakes with voices provided […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Netflix ‘Rebecca’: Gothic Gone Mild ☆☆ October 23, 2020
    In the quieter moments of the 2020 Netflix adaptation of “Rebecca,” the chemistry between Lily James and Armie Hammer as newlyweds could set a house on fire and the malevolent spitefulness of Kristin Scott Thomas as the first wife’s bestie is pure poison. Yet those moments of cinematic fire are few. Director Ben Wheatley doesn’t […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2020: ’76 Days’ ☆☆☆☆☆ October 21, 2020
    When someone asks you what you did during the COVID-19 lockdown, you probably won’t come up with this doozy. Chinese American filmmaker Hao Wu reached out and had virtual meetings with two Chinese reporters (Weixi Chen and Anonymous) and together this threesome made a documentary about the panicky 76 days in Wuhan, China in four […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • AFI FEST 2020: ‘Sound of Metal’ ☆☆☆☆ October 21, 2020
    British Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed stars in a movie about loss and discovery: “Sound of Metal.” As you can probably guess from the title, this is about heavy metal. Ahmed, with an artistic goatee and bleached blond hair with defiantly black roots, plays punk-metal drummer Ruben Stone, who lives in a classic retro motorhome with […]
    Jana J. Monji
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