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Not So Fast: Actors and Ethics

They say that celebrity deaths come in twos. True to form, in the past two years there were two deaths that made headline news. Paul Walker died in a tragic car accident in 2013 and Philip Seymour...

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Marvel’s Intense Future Planning

Me, being an excited child So I know this topic seems like a pretty surface-level thing to cover, which doesn’t really fit with the whole “Depth of Field” thing I’m going for here. And it would be! But...

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Bad Dads and Favorite Children: An Analysis of Familial Relationships in King...

Photo from i.telegraph.co.uk The painfully complex and utterly ridiculous play, King Lear by William Shakespeare, scrutinizes dysfunctional parent-child relationships in a way that seemingly...

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Meet the Editors: Grant Mazan

Grant Mazan Welcome back, readers! This week we’d like to introduce you to Grant Mazan, our Assistant Poetry Editor and Assistant Arts and Design Editor. Originally from a town in Kansas just outside...

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Editor’s Notes #152

Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Good evening, blog readers, and welcome to another wrap-up post. We’ve had a quite busy couple of weeks, so there are plenty of posts to catch you up on....

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Kids With Agency: Rushmore and the Child Civilization

Photo from nonamemovieblog.wordpress.com This past weekend, my sister and I dove back into the wonderful world of Wes Anderson and came out with another gem. This was great, considering the previous...

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Literary Heroine Spotlight: Tris Prior

Photo from latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com With the new movie Mockingjay Part 1 coming to theaters, we cannot forget the other up-and-coming heroine who had a movie released recently. The...

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Meet the Editors: Miguel Gonzalez

Miguel Gonzalez Hello readers! In this week’s installment of Meet the Editors, we’re going to change things up a bit. We’re excited to introduce one of our film bloggers, Miguel Gonzalez. Instead of...

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Writing Advice: Be Adaptable

http://lagemoyen.blogspot.com When we set out on writing projects, we all typically have a certain mindset that we enter or certain tools that we consider to be at our disposal. These are tools and...

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Kerouac’s Margarita

Photo from i.telegraph.co.uk Jack Kerouac often wrote about alcohol-fueled escapades in his mostly autobiographical novels. In his numerous travels, the beat author took frequent trips to Mexico, where...

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Is All Fair in Love and War?

Photo from goodreads.com Hello Readers, and welcome back! This week we will be talking about The Last Princess by Galaxy Craze. Set in a futuristic England, this book’s world is a bit of a mess. A...

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Pick-a-Poem: “Night Text”

http://riverwalkmamas.com Welcome, blog readers, to another Wednesday and another installment of our Pick-a-Poem weekly feature. In these weekly posts, we feature a new poet and his or her work in an...

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Photo from filmemagazine.mx (WARNING: Spoilers Ahead) Christopher Nolan is known for thinking outside the box. His movies reflect his innovative way of thinking and executing his ideas. All of his...

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Festen and Dogme 95

Photo from http://ecx.images-amazon.com/ Okay, so normally I would write about whatever Wes Anderson film my sister and I watched over the weekend (this time it was Bottle Rocket). But last Wednesday,...

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In Defense of Lady Macbeth

Photo from tumblr.com All too often scholars and thespians cast Lady Macbeth as a power-hungry, domineering witch who, through acts of coercion, forces her husband to carry out regicide. However, a...

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Meet the Editors: Mike Egan

Mike Egan Welcome back readers! We’re going to continue to switch things up this week by introducing our other film blogger, Mike Egan. Mike is a Communications major with a focus in Electronic Media...

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Jet Fuel Review Issue #8

Jet Fuel Review Fall 2014 Nonfiction – Fiction – Poetry – Art Also available in eBook format! Issue #8: Live NOW!

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Editor’s Notes #153

Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello, blog readers! I hope you’ve all been having a great weekend. It’s time once again to look back at the posts we’ve been featuring here on the blog....

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Writing Advice: The Brambles

http://lagemoyen.blogspot.com As I think you already know, writing is not always easy. In fact, the moments when it’s hard more than outweigh the moments when it’s easy. For the most part, writing is...

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Birdman Rising, or The Unfortunate Occurrence of Differing Perceptions

Photo from wired.com Alejandro Iñárritu’s new film, Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), has been getting a lot of positive press lately, so I figured I would jump on the bandwagon and talk...

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