Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Articles by Becquer Medak-Seguin:
All students should attend ‘Prom Night’
Paul Saltzman's first documentary feature, Prom Night in Mississippi, which ...
Music video meltdown: Prepubescent birthday edition
Movie Reviewer Bécquer Medak-Seguín tears apart three of pop music's most recent videos.
Minor problems don’t keep Saffron from offering solid, if untraditional Mediterranean fare
Critiques aside, my date and I enjoyed our visit to Saffron. The menu is focused and delivers, albeit sometimes untraditionally, many of the wonderful flavors ...
2010 Oscar predictions
I wholeheartedly disagree with the Academy nearly 100 percent of the time and believe the Oscars are nothing but a laughable, luxurious series of cameos, ...
‘Juno’ creator finds success with no-frills ‘Up in the Air’
If there's one thing I've learned from watching an exorbitant amount of films every year it is that good ones, though not necessarily great ones, ...
T. Maccarone’s new Olive Marketplace and Café taps into excitement, experiments with café/marketplace hybrid
Your nostalgic yearning for large baguettes may not be satisfied by Maccarone’s new establishment, but this eatery’s penchant for bold, creamy sauce flavors may more ...
New director Cooper garners Oscar buzz with ‘Crazy Heart’; ‘American Radical’ captures professorial life
“Crazy Heart” is unwaveringly predictable and too schematic to merit the hearts and minds of so many members of the Academy.
The Age-Old Film Debate: Formalism or Realism?
A recent post by New Yorker film blogger Richard Brody sparked a worthwhile debate (in which I participated) that ...
New on DVD: ‘The Cove’
A excellent film that somehow made it as near as Pasco this fall (don't ask me how) has redefined activist documentary filmmaking. Louie Psihoyos's The ...
