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Friday One Sheet: THE ROOSTER
This dark, moody and minimalist key art from Australian design house Barlow.Agency injects some metaphor and iconography into Mark Leonard Winter's feature film debut, The Rooster. We have featured the design work of Timothy Barlow's company a few years ago for...
SXSW 2024 Preview: Genre Film Fans, Get Excited About This Dazzling Dozen
It must be spring, because in just a couple of days thousands of tastemakers will descend upon Austin, Texas, for the SXSW Film & TV Festival. Providing a home for everything from big budget Hollywood premieres like The Fall Guy...
Friday One Sheet: Eyes Wide Shut @ 24
Three times make a tradition, right? It is (now) a holiday tradition of sharing a poster variant for Stanley Kubrick's final film, an alternate Christmas movie classic. Modern movie lovers may go to The Apartment, Die Hard, Gremlins, or Chungking Express (perhaps even...
Friday One Sheet: LIMBO
The pull quotes filling the open sky here say as much about the film as they do about Australian Carnival Studio's design ethos for the film's key art. Ivan Sen's striking, monochrome new cold case, outback noir Limbo is a...
Friday One Sheet: Scandinavian Film Festival
Every now and again, the poster for a film festival overshadows that of the films screening. Such is the case for the 9th annual Scandinavian Film Festival, which takes place in Australia, and screens contemporary films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland,...
Friday One Sheet: CONSECRATION
We always love a bit of blasphemy here at Friday One Sheet, and today's key art for Chris Smith's Consecration fits the bill. This design from The Refinery immediately evokes Ken Russell's 1971 masterpiece, The Devils. Not so much that...
Pretty Packaging: The STINGRAY Blu-ray Boxset Stuns
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson are known as legends in the field of science fiction television series, and rightfully so. While they are probably most famous for their live action series Space: 1999 and the puppet series Thunderbirds, they have been...
Celebrating David Cronenberg: A New Century
From 'Spider' to 'A History of Violence' to 'Eastern Promises.'
Now Streaming: THE OUTLAWS Serve Their Sentence, THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Sends Text Messages
Stephen Merchant's newest comic series features Christopher Walken; Elle Fanning stars in a series torn from text messages.
Now Streaming: REYKA Grabs, MARVEL'S HIT-MONKEY Splats, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Flies
Two new series and a returning show debuted this week on BritBox, Hulu and Paramount Plus.
Genre Seeds: I START COUNTING, Bolstered By a Teen
Jenny Agutter and Bryan Marshall star in director David Greene's great adaptation of a noteworthy novel, now available on Blu-ray from Fun City Editions.
Friday One Sheet: ENCOUNTER
Design house B O N D's key art for Encounter (currently getting buzz on the festival circuit, before heading to cinemas and Amazon Prime in December), continues a trend I highlighted here, about this relatively recent poster trope: The Vortex....
Friday One Sheet: GREEN
Why is it that you do not often see green movie posters? I could not tell you for certain, other than the colour is rather neutral and blends into the landscape of most multiplex aisles where these types of one...
Friday One Sheet: A Tale Of Two Posters
Consider this column, one of the last before the year-end round up of 2020s key art designs, a lesson on what to do, and what not to do in all things One Sheet. Here, we have two posters for a...
Now Streaming: PATRICK, It's All in the Eyes
Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, and Rod Mullinar star in director Richard Franklin's original telekinesis thriller, now streaming on Shudder.
Friday One Sheet: SAINT MAUD
With its ultra high-grain photography aesthetic, black background, and minimalism, aspects of the new key art for this tense little British horror-psychodrama resembles the paperback boom of the 1960s and 1970s, the surge of horror and supernatural themes that brought...
Friday One Sheet: MAKE UP
This striking, lo-fi, key art for Claire Oakley's debut feature, Make Up, does unlikely things with colour. Mixing red and green is a one-way ticket to evoking Christmas, but here, it is cosmic and ethereal, like the stargate sequence of...
Friday One Sheet: GREED Is Good
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the tagline of the year, "The Devil Is In The Retail." Michael Winterbottom's stylized take-down of the fashion retail industry (by way of planning and throwing a megalomaniac-vanity party) may have had some woes...
Los Cabos 2019 Dispatch: Festival Galas THE IRISHMAN and JOJO RABBIT
The eighth edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival kicked off with the Latin American premiere of Martin Scorsese’s latest gangster masterpiece The Irishman. At the opening gala, the legendary Robert De Niro himself presented the film, though his...
Now Streaming: ANOTHER LIFE, WHITE CHAMBER, Sci-Fi, Sorta
Katee Sackhoff leads the series; Shauna MacDonald stars in the film.
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