Hasitha Fernando revisits Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River at 20… Ever since Clint Eastwood crafted the brutally beautiful revisionist western Unforgiven back in 1992, audiences were pining for something similar by the maestro. Flashforward to a decade later and the veteran Hollywood actor gave us an equally devastating, bleak-as-hell crime drama called Mystic River. Bolstered by exceptional […]
20 Years Back: The Films of 2003
It’s time to take a journey twenty years back in time to look at the cinematic landscape of 2003… Another year passes and another anniversary comes around. 2003 was 20 years ago. 20 years!!! Take a stiff drink people and come along with me to revisit a cinematic year that was stuffed with so so […]
Oscars: What Should Have Won – Mystic River over The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King for Best Picture
Graeme Robertson on why Mystic River should have won Best Picture over The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King… The Oscars celebrating the best of 2003 was one of those classic nights where one film ruled them all. Winning an incredible 11 Oscars (the third and, to date, last film to do […]
