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From ‘Avatar’ to ‘Sherlock Holmes’ – Few films stand out this year

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 18, 2010

Review: “The Last Song” and “A Prophet”

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 17, 2010

Even on its own terms, ‘The Back-Up Plan’ remains unimaginative

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 27, 2010

‘Kick-Ass’ spoiled by seriousness; ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ deserves its Oscar win

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 22, 2010

Oscar-winning documentary to screen at Kimball

Becquer Medak-Seguin
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’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 15, 2010

Predictability, cliché bog down stellar cinematography in ‘Green Zone’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 8, 2010

Get carried away by “Jules and Jim”

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 7, 2010

Burton, Depp combo botches ‘Alice in Wonderland’; bad accents ruin ‘Shutter Island’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 30, 2010

All students should attend ‘Prom Night’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 11, 2010

Music video meltdown: Prepubescent birthday edition

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 10, 2010

Minor problems don’t keep Saffron from offering solid, if untraditional Mediterranean fare

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 1, 2010

2010 Oscar predictions

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 1, 2010

‘Juno’ creator finds success with no-frills ‘Up in the Air’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 24, 2010

T. Maccarone’s new Olive Marketplace and Café taps into excitement, experiments with café/marketplace hybrid

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 17, 2010

New director Cooper garners Oscar buzz with ‘Crazy Heart’; ‘American Radical’ captures professorial life

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 17, 2010

Get ‘Lost,’ It’s Worth It

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 15, 2010

The Age-Old Film Debate: Formalism or Realism?

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 12, 2010

New on DVD: ‘The Cove’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 11, 2010

Marshall’s Oscar-nominated ‘Nine’ fails to meet basic requirements of film

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 10, 2010

‘Avatar’ hindered by heavy-handed allegories, pathetic plot

Becquer Medak-Seguin
January 24, 2010

Top Films of the Decade

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 24, 2009

Top Films of 2009

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 24, 2009

Review: ‘The Messenger’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 24, 2009

Holiday films: What to see, what to skip

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 7, 2009

‘Precious’ deserves an honest chance, despite harsh criticism

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 7, 2009

Is the (lack of) early Oscar buzz worrisome?

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 2, 2009

‘Broken Embraces’ not to be missed

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 27, 2009

Humor simmers in ‘Pirate Radio,’ Emmerich lugs ‘2012’ plot along

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 18, 2009

Films to watch (or not to watch) over break

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 17, 2009

‘Damned United’ shines, ‘Couples Retreat’ flops

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 9, 2009

‘Paranormal Activity,’ ‘This Is It’ make amateur mistakes

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 2, 2009

‘In the Loop’ pokes fun at Iraq war

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 28, 2009

‘Where the Wild Things Are’ captures child’s psyche, avoids children’s movie traps

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 21, 2009

On the cinematic horizon

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 20, 2009

Current cinema: “The Informant!” and “Away We Go”

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 20, 2009

The best of current cinema: ‘District 9’ and ‘Inglourious Basterds’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 17, 2009

Summer flicks

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 3, 2009

‘The Great Buck Howard’ shies away from all-out satire

Becquer Medak-Seguin
June 2, 2009

‘Rudo y Cursi’ misses the goal

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 27, 2009

A failed eulogy to print media in ‘State of Play’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 7, 2009

‘Dry Creek’: Second episode creates romantic parallels

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 6, 2009

Postmortem meditation drives ‘Dry Creek’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 5, 2009

Subtlety lacks in conceptual ‘Thinking of You’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
May 2, 2009

Artistic weight drowns ‘EmPlosive’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 28, 2009

‘blue moon’ short films leave much to be desired

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 28, 2009

‘Hunger’ satiates

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 26, 2009

Hey Panhellenic: give the rest of Whitman a vote

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 23, 2009

Festival de Cannes Selection Announced

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 23, 2009

Iron Mike is Back in ‘Tyson’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 22, 2009

Welcome…

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 20, 2009

Don’t ‘Observe’ this film

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 16, 2009

Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Ricks on campus

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 2, 2009

Foreign, ‘art-house’ cinema provide much-needed escape from Hollywood

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 2, 2009

Obama has a Latin American obligation

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 5, 2009

Who knew these buttons could be so creepy?

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 5, 2009

The predictable, ‘It’s-About-Time’ Oscars

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 26, 2009

I’m ‘Just not that into’ this movie

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 19, 2009

Top twelve non-Oscar nominated movies of 2008

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 5, 2009

Too many sparkling vampires spoil this adaptation

Becquer Medak-Seguin
December 4, 2008

Core discussed at ASWC Town Hall

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 20, 2008

U.N. must act in Congo

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 20, 2008

‘Titanic’ still sinks, stinks

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 13, 2008

ASWC solicits student input

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 6, 2008

Residence life must amend contracts, apologize

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 6, 2008

Fire prompts Clinton Court evacuation

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 4, 2008

Justice Dept. steps in after research by ’06 alumnus

Becquer Medak-Seguin
November 4, 2008

The song-and-dance routine is over for these ‘tweens

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 30, 2008

Will a relook at civil war bring closure for Spanish families?

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 23, 2008

Bon Appetit considers going trayless

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 23, 2008

Library shuts doors during crunch

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 16, 2008

Umatilla tribe to reclaim Maxey artifacts

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 16, 2008

A look at Sarah Palin by a true Alaskan

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 15, 2008

The New Classics: hard times in the ‘City of God’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 15, 2008

The Mbeki legacy and the Zuma prospect

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 14, 2008

ASWC Reviews $344,000 Surplus

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 9, 2008

Bailout is a burning house

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 1, 2008

Hand count determines firstyear Senate election results

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 25, 2008

Bush’s Pakistan policy

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 24, 2008

Penelope Cruz dazzles audience in Woody Allen’s latest feature

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 24, 2008

The example of our power

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 18, 2008

Construction workers injured

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 18, 2008

Whitman only U.S. college to stream Al Jazeera English

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 18, 2008

The new gold rush

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 30, 2008

Presidential debates’ ‘lip service’

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 23, 2008

Congress needs new fiscal diet: Use earmarks sparingly

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 23, 2008

Nepal’s choices: Bad government or bad government

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 16, 2008

A tale of two currencies: The fall the the U.S. Dollar

Becquer Medak-Seguin
April 2, 2008

A necessary presidential library

Becquer Medak-Seguin
March 6, 2008

Stop supporting dictators

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 28, 2008

Rethinking Sarkozy’s senseless suggestion

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 28, 2008

Educating away religious hostility

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 14, 2008

Goodbye Mitt Romney, R.I.P.

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 14, 2008

Kenya: The next Darfur

Becquer Medak-Seguin
February 7, 2008

The forgotten BRIC: Why Brazil might be the next world superpower

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 25, 2007

Belgium’s government needs to unify to prevent civil war

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 17, 2007

Why Zimbabwe’s problems are our own

Becquer Medak-Seguin
October 3, 2007

Petraeus-Crocker report slaps America with harsh reality of Iraq

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 19, 2007

Chavez’s rise in Venezuela contains his own seeds of destruction

Becquer Medak-Seguin
September 12, 2007

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