International: US & Canada Features
(Good) Friday One Sheet: HUMANE
Curious timing on the Christian calendar for today’s column. We are not at the resurrection yet on Good Friday, only the sacrifice, and the death-heavy poster for Humane shows that. Perfect ordered body bags, in an neutral grey setting, suggest...
Friday One Sheet: MONKEY MAN
No beating about the bush with this one. With its saturated reds, high grain, and brooding intensity, the key art for Dev Patel's Monkey Man signals blood and tightly bound bombast. Eschewing a standard credit block, and putting all text...
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: THE BIKERIDERS
Exuding casual mid-century mid-western cool, freedom and wide open space, the key art for Jeff Nichols' biker saga, spanning the 1950s and 1960s rise of The Vandals, wears its iconography with ease. No credit block for this bad boy, just...
Friday One Sheet: SEAGRASS
A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a remote British Colombian island in Meredith Hama-Brown's Seagrass. This distressed, lonely key art, with its almost letterhead typography and design at the top makes...
Friday One Sheet: TENET (Re-Release)
Apologies for two re-releases in a row, however, this new key art for Christopher Nolan's Tenet is so, so good. This Saul Bass inspired free fall from design house B O N D is a country mile (forwards or backwards) ahead...
Friday One Sheet: CORALINE (Re-Release)
Arguably the scariest film aimed at children in the past 15 years, Coraline, the animated classic from Laika Studios, writer Neil Gaiman, and director Henry Selick, is getting a re-release in August. The poster designer, whom I have had bit...
Friday One Sheet: MOTHER SAIGON (Má Sài Gòn)
Quebec/Vietnamese filmmaker Khoa Lê's documents a portrait of the LGBTQ+ in modern Vietnam in Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon). The hazy orange and pink key art offers its own kind of public intimacy, and sends out a strong core visual on...
Friday One Sheet: BUSHMAN 1971
In the twilight of the 1960s, America was frothing with political unrests, assassinations, and racial tension. David Schickele's hangin' out movie cum documentary slash film essay from 1971, Bushman, gets a 4K restoration, and a handsome, grainy black and white poster....
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: YEAR ONE
The feature film debut of Lauren Loesberg gets noticed courtesy of this expertly designed piece of key art. Tori Huynh, the designer based out of Los Angeles, has been featured in this column previously this year for her work on...
Friday One Sheet: We Need To Talk About EXPENDABLES 4 Tagline
At first glance, the new key art for Expendables 4 (or Expenda4bles if the never-good-to-begin-with trend of swapping letter for numbers in the title card has to be brought into the aging action franchise) is a similar design on the...
Friday One Sheet: STRAYS
Here is the tail (sorry...) of two very different marketing campaigns for a Universal Studios R rated talking dog movie, Strays. USA versus Germany. In the United States, the movie star names are almost as big as the photos of...
Friday One Sheet: HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE
Let there be no criticism of clarity on the key art for Daniel Goldhaber's eco-thriller, How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Large fire-engine red stencil letters, overlaid onto black smoke, foreground the title of the film that tells any prospective...
Friday One Sheet: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
In spite of its incredibly clunky title, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh film in Tom Cruise's M:I franchise has its first piece of key art, and it is lean and minimal. This teaser poster, from Concept Arts,...
Friday One Sheet: JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4
The mountain of John Wick: Chapter 4 marketing has been fun and colourful, as is the franchise it supports. Recently, the film had a series of artists do different takes on key art, and while there are several of these...
Friday One Sheet: INFINITY POOL
I rarely do character-style posters in this column; however, Mia Goth is having a moment, so here we are. Design house AVPrint did a series of posters for Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool, in ultra-tight closeup with a very high grain. This one,...
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...
Friday One Sheet: SCREAM VI
When your slasher franchise is getting long in the tooth, you can bring it to New York, or Europe, or Space. The Scream franchise, with its sixth entry coming out in 2023, chose the first option. This is not terribly...
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT
Yes, this has been floating around movie-nerd internet for some time, however, in the tradition of this column, that the last Friday before Christmas shall be an alternate Eyes Wide Shut poster, here we are. This 'Hallmark Christmas Movie' spoof...
