New Artwork by Paco Pomet!
Paco Pomet’s work appears in Jet Fuel Review’s Issue #19! Check it out here! Social, 2016 Diptych Oil on canvas 120 x 280 cm Paco Pomet (Granada, Spain, 1970) lives and works in his hometown. Bachelor...
View ArticleSteven’s Science in Cinema: Armageddon (1998)
https://imdb.to/2JAxLoQ I promised in my first blog that I would do equal amounts of STEM reviews on various movies. I have since realized that I have yet to do a physics review. I was actually...
View ArticleNew Artwork by Lizzy Lunday!
Lizzy Lunday’s work appears in Jet Fuel Review’s Issue #19! Check it out here! LA Hot Tub Lizzy Lunday (b.1992) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Lunday received her MFA from Pratt Institute...
View ArticleFilm Feature: Analysis of The Exorcist by Chris J.Patiño–Lighting the Darkness
“The Exorcist: Lighting the Darkness” a film analysis by Chris J.Patiño There are many ways to paint a picture of fear. For some filmmakers, it’s all in the monster, in showcasing the boogeyman at the...
View ArticleSpangler’s From Sentence to Screen: Brokeback Mountain
https://apple.co/33sUJrx Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama directed by Ang Lee and stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway. The movie starts off in the year...
View ArticleMeet the Editors: Chris J. Patiño
Hello subscribers! The Jet Fuel Review blog returns with its ongoing series, Meet the Editors. Every semester our literary journal gets new staff, and we love introducing them in this way. For our...
View ArticleChristian’s Cinematic Syntax: A Review of “The Cranes Are Flying”
Welcome back, readers. Christian’s Cinematic Syntax is back for the fall semester, and I am excited to share my thoughts on a new batch of films that really caught my attention. Unlike last semester,...
View ArticleMusings of a Future Librarian: Minor Feelings- An Asian American Reckoning
https://bit.ly/3kfVElV Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Korean poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong, is a novel that consumes readers with the prickling realities of Asian Americans, and...
View ArticlePatiño’s Lores and Myths in Film: The Introduction
Do you like scary stories? The tales that send a wriggling, crawling feeling beneath your skin. The kind that has you skirt the edge of a forest, look under your bed, check the closet and cower...
View ArticleMeet the Editors: Madeline Brzeczek
Hello again! For our second entry to the Meet the Editors series for the Fall semester, we present our prose editor, assistant art and design editor, and copy editor— Madeline Brzeczek. They are...
View ArticleSpangler’s From Sentence to Screen: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 fantasy film co-written and directed by Andrew Adamson. The film is based off of the 1950’s novel, The Lion, the Witch and the...
View ArticleMeet the Editors: Brittney Crosse
This semester is going quick, and this is the third Meet the Editors post already! This week we present a member of Jet Fuel Review who is our assistant fiction and nonfiction editor and copy editor....
View ArticleMusings of a Future Librarian: James Baldwin- Giovanni’s Room
https://bit.ly/2GiXnIt Based in 1950’s Paris, Giovanni’s Room is a novel that expresses the realities of requited love, destroyed by social ideologies concerned with man and his sexuality. Told from...
View ArticleAdaptation Analysis: It Happened One Night (1934) and “Night Bus”
In addition to writing film reviews, I will use my Cinematic Syntax to engage in Adaptation Analysis. This semester, my film adaptation course, Stories Into Film with Dr. Christopher Wielgos, gives me...
View ArticlePatino’s Lores And Myths In Film: Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse
WARNING: Slight spoilers ahead. Seagulls. Mermaids. Farts. Oh, my. Welcome, dear reader. https://imdb.to/30p4PZT The Lighthouse, directed by Robert Eggers, is a black and white nautical thriller...
View ArticleMeet the Editors: Cassidy Fontaine
Hello subscribers! Here is another Meet the Editor for you all. This week’s featured editor is Cassidy Fontaine and she is in quite a few editorial positions this semester. She is a layout editor,...
View ArticleSpangler’s From Sentence to Screen: Practical Magic
https://bit.ly/350NRCi Practical Magic is a 1998 American romcom fantasy film, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra...
View ArticleMusings of a Future Librarian: “The Cheater’s Guide To Love” by Junot Díaz
https://amzn.to/3j3leJH “The Cheater’s Guide To Love” by Junot Díaz, is a short story that shines a light on the position of the Dominican man raised in the United States. Via the protagonist, Yunior,...
View ArticleAdaptation Analysis: “Killings”& In the Bedroom (2001)
https://imdb.to/34Hmihf Like my previous entry, my focus is again on Adaptation Analysis, which I will continue to categorize as either close, loose, or intermediate. This week my goal is to compare...
View ArticleMeet the Editors: Sean Darke
For the final “Meet the Editors” for the semester, we are excited to present Sean Darke, who is a poetry editor for Jet Fuel Review. I hope you all enjoyed getting to know our wonderful new editors,...
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