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Jet Fuel Jukebox for 7/19/16
And we’re back to updating our regularly scheduled Jet Fuel Jukebox! Pitchfork Music Festival 2016 is officially over, and it was an amazing experience filled with incredible performances. I already...
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Pick-a-Poem: “Techno-Origami”
http://riverwalkmamas.com Hello, blog readers! It’s time for another installment of our Pick-a-Poem series here on the blog. On Wednesdays, we feature a new poem from the website Poetry Daily. This is...
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? : A Review of “Lights Out”
http://bit.ly/1W1QPNV Back in 2013, a measly two-and-a-half minute horror short called Lights Out went viral and gained some recognition for its creator, David F. Sandberg. It’s a simple short, but it...
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It’s Not Just The Villains That Are Bad: A Review of “Suicide Squad”
http://bit.ly/2bknxYE Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ attempt at rivaling Marvel Studios’ Cinematic Universe is a valiant effort, and I can’t stress that enough. The execs at WB and DC are in a position I...
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I Love The 80s: A Review of “Stranger Things”
http://bit.ly/2bAxEaO You’ve likely already noticed, but the 2010s have somewhat become a 2.0 update of the 1980s — at least in terms of our media. In video games, retro-style 8-and-16-bit graphics are...
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Jet Fuel Review Fall 2016 Reading Period
Hello, blog readers! Things have become rather quiet here on the blog, but this post may be a sign that we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon. As the summer draws to a close and the...
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Are Video Games Art?: A Review of “Inside”
http://bit.ly/2980ssD In Playdead’s Inside, you’ll spend your short time with it roaming a side-scrolling, dystopian world that’s quite alien to the one that we live in. It’s a world that’s almost...
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See No Evil: A Review of “Don’t Breathe”
http://bit.ly/2bNrRmn For decades in cinema, we’ve watched the seemingly secure homes of the innocent intruded by ravenous murderers, most recently in Netflix’s Hush, a film I previously lauded as “one...
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Basement Dwelling: “My Woman” by Angel Olsen
Welcome to Basement Dwelling, where I review new records that should be on your musical radar. What sets Basement Dwelling apart from other music review columns is that these are all albums that are...
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Jet Fuel Jukebox: Summer 2016 Edition
Remember in the last Jet Fuel Jukebox update, when I wrote, “we’re back to updating our regularly scheduled Jet Fuel Jukebox!” Yeah, that was two months ago, and the feature has been dormant ever...
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Selections from Sabrina Parr’s Chapbook, “Letters to the Girl Forged from...
The cover to Parr’s chapbook, “Letters to the Girl Forged from Glass and Gold” “Sabrina Parr’s work delves into worlds of destruction and deterioration, but through lenses of admiration described via...
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Haley’s Poetic Playlist: “Morning in America”
http://bit.ly/2d1fKBP Hi readers! I am so excited to be back and blogging, and I hope everyone enjoyed their summer! By the end of the year, I aim to introduce you to plenty of amazing songs that...
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Meet the Editors: Olivia Radakovich
Olivia Radakovich Hello readers! Since it’s the start of a new semester, we have a bunch of new editors to interview for our “Meet the Editors.” This week we have Olivia Radakovich. Olivia Radakovich...
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In Which I Write About My Favorite Films: A Look at “Mean Creek”
http://bit.ly/2cMu2pj Jacob Aaron Estes’ 2004 film Mean Creek is, at the outset, what seems to be a simple, predictable coming-of-age tale. In reality, though, it’s much more than that. You could say...
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Jet Fuel Jukebox for 9/20/16
Happy Tuesday, everyone! This is our second week in a row updating this playlist, so I think it’s safe to say that we’re officially back in action. Since we so scarcely did this over the summer, my...
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Selections from Sarah Ford’s chapbook, “Perversions & Saplings”
The inside cover to Ford’s chapbook, “Perversions & Saplings” “Sarah Elizabeth Ford’s collection, Perversions & Saplings, is hauntingly vivid and shows us the destructive path that nature has...
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Meet the Editors: Ashley McCann
Good evening, readers! Today we have Ashley McCann, who is a writer for Lewis University’s newspaper and was a former volunteer for JFR. Ashley McCann Ashley McCann is a junior at Lewis University....
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Not Just Any ‘Cartoon’ Film: A Review of “Grave of the Fireflies”
http://bit.ly/2d65eXP Grave of the Fireflies (1988), though animated in its appearance on screen, is far from first assumptions of it being made for children. If anything, children should avoid this...
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Sigh: A Review of “Blair Witch”
http://bit.ly/2dhahnf I can say with certainty that I’ve never had a more frightening experience watching a film than the first time I saw The Blair Witch Project. Revolutionary in its time for its...
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Editor’s Notes #182
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Good afternoon, blog readers! As the summer dragged on, I’m afraid the “weekly” Editor’s Notes updates got away from me a bit. Now that the fall is...
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