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All content by Becquer Medak-Seguin
From ‘Avatar’ to ‘Sherlock Holmes’ – Few films stand out this year
May 18, 2010
Review: “The Last Song” and “A Prophet”
May 17, 2010
Even on its own terms, ‘The Back-Up Plan’ remains unimaginative
April 27, 2010
‘Kick-Ass’ spoiled by seriousness; ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ deserves its Oscar win
April 22, 2010
Oscar-winning documentary to screen at Kimball
April 16, 2010
‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ not as self-conscious as its title suggests; Dreamworks still lags behind Pixar with ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
April 15, 2010
Predictability, cliché bog down stellar cinematography in ‘Green Zone’
April 8, 2010
Get carried away by “Jules and Jim”
April 7, 2010
Burton, Depp combo botches ‘Alice in Wonderland’; bad accents ruin ‘Shutter Island’
March 30, 2010
All students should attend ‘Prom Night’
March 11, 2010
Music video meltdown: Prepubescent birthday edition
March 10, 2010
Minor problems don’t keep Saffron from offering solid, if untraditional Mediterranean fare
March 1, 2010
2010 Oscar predictions
March 1, 2010
‘Juno’ creator finds success with no-frills ‘Up in the Air’
February 24, 2010
T. Maccarone’s new Olive Marketplace and Café taps into excitement, experiments with café/marketplace hybrid
February 17, 2010
New director Cooper garners Oscar buzz with ‘Crazy Heart’; ‘American Radical’ captures professorial life
February 17, 2010
Get ‘Lost,’ It’s Worth It
February 15, 2010
The Age-Old Film Debate: Formalism or Realism?
February 12, 2010
New on DVD: ‘The Cove’
February 11, 2010
Marshall’s Oscar-nominated ‘Nine’ fails to meet basic requirements of film
February 10, 2010
‘Avatar’ hindered by heavy-handed allegories, pathetic plot
January 24, 2010
Top Films of the Decade
December 24, 2009
Top Films of 2009
December 24, 2009
Review: ‘The Messenger’
December 24, 2009
Holiday films: What to see, what to skip
December 7, 2009
‘Precious’ deserves an honest chance, despite harsh criticism
December 7, 2009
Is the (lack of) early Oscar buzz worrisome?
December 2, 2009
‘Broken Embraces’ not to be missed
November 27, 2009
Humor simmers in ‘Pirate Radio,’ Emmerich lugs ‘2012’ plot along
November 18, 2009
Films to watch (or not to watch) over break
November 17, 2009
‘Damned United’ shines, ‘Couples Retreat’ flops
November 9, 2009
‘Paranormal Activity,’ ‘This Is It’ make amateur mistakes
November 2, 2009
‘In the Loop’ pokes fun at Iraq war
October 28, 2009
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ captures child’s psyche, avoids children’s movie traps
October 21, 2009
On the cinematic horizon
September 20, 2009
Current cinema: “The Informant!” and “Away We Go”
September 20, 2009
The best of current cinema: ‘District 9’ and ‘Inglourious Basterds’
September 17, 2009
Summer flicks
September 3, 2009
‘The Great Buck Howard’ shies away from all-out satire
June 2, 2009
‘Rudo y Cursi’ misses the goal
May 27, 2009
A failed eulogy to print media in ‘State of Play’
May 7, 2009
‘Dry Creek’: Second episode creates romantic parallels
May 6, 2009
Postmortem meditation drives ‘Dry Creek’
May 5, 2009
Subtlety lacks in conceptual ‘Thinking of You’
May 2, 2009
Artistic weight drowns ‘EmPlosive’
April 28, 2009
‘blue moon’ short films leave much to be desired
April 28, 2009
‘Hunger’ satiates
April 26, 2009
Hey Panhellenic: give the rest of Whitman a vote
April 23, 2009
Festival de Cannes Selection Announced
April 23, 2009
Iron Mike is Back in ‘Tyson’
April 22, 2009
Welcome…
April 20, 2009
Don’t ‘Observe’ this film
April 16, 2009
Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Ricks on campus
April 2, 2009
Foreign, ‘art-house’ cinema provide much-needed escape from Hollywood
April 2, 2009
Obama has a Latin American obligation
March 5, 2009
Who knew these buttons could be so creepy?
March 5, 2009
The predictable, ‘It’s-About-Time’ Oscars
February 26, 2009
I’m ‘Just not that into’ this movie
February 19, 2009
Top twelve non-Oscar nominated movies of 2008
February 5, 2009
Too many sparkling vampires spoil this adaptation
December 4, 2008
Core discussed at ASWC Town Hall
November 20, 2008
U.N. must act in Congo
November 20, 2008
‘Titanic’ still sinks, stinks
November 13, 2008
ASWC solicits student input
November 6, 2008
Residence life must amend contracts, apologize
November 6, 2008
Fire prompts Clinton Court evacuation
November 4, 2008
Justice Dept. steps in after research by ’06 alumnus
November 4, 2008
The song-and-dance routine is over for these ‘tweens
October 30, 2008
Will a relook at civil war bring closure for Spanish families?
October 23, 2008
Bon Appetit considers going trayless
October 23, 2008
Library shuts doors during crunch
October 16, 2008
Umatilla tribe to reclaim Maxey artifacts
October 16, 2008
A look at Sarah Palin by a true Alaskan
October 15, 2008
The New Classics: hard times in the ‘City of God’
October 15, 2008
The Mbeki legacy and the Zuma prospect
October 14, 2008
ASWC Reviews $344,000 Surplus
October 9, 2008
Bailout is a burning house
October 1, 2008
Hand count determines firstyear Senate election results
September 25, 2008
Bush’s Pakistan policy
September 24, 2008
Penelope Cruz dazzles audience in Woody Allen’s latest feature
September 24, 2008
The example of our power
September 18, 2008
Construction workers injured
September 18, 2008
Whitman only U.S. college to stream Al Jazeera English
September 18, 2008
The new gold rush
April 30, 2008
Presidential debates’ ‘lip service’
April 23, 2008
Congress needs new fiscal diet: Use earmarks sparingly
April 23, 2008
Nepal’s choices: Bad government or bad government
April 16, 2008
A tale of two currencies: The fall the the U.S. Dollar
April 2, 2008
A necessary presidential library
March 6, 2008
Stop supporting dictators
February 28, 2008
Rethinking Sarkozy’s senseless suggestion
February 28, 2008
Educating away religious hostility
February 14, 2008
Goodbye Mitt Romney, R.I.P.
February 14, 2008
Kenya: The next Darfur
February 7, 2008
The forgotten BRIC: Why Brazil might be the next world superpower
October 25, 2007
Belgium’s government needs to unify to prevent civil war
October 17, 2007
Why Zimbabwe’s problems are our own
October 3, 2007
Petraeus-Crocker report slaps America with harsh reality of Iraq
September 19, 2007
Chavez’s rise in Venezuela contains his own seeds of destruction
September 12, 2007
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