Friday One Sheet: 28 YEARS LATER...
Skulls, and sunflowers, and Pantone Red, oh my! One thing that has been remarkably consistent with 28 xxx Later franchise has been this particular shade of distressed red in their posters. Here, a poster that seems to be highlighting the...
Friday One Sheet: M3GAN 2.0
Leaning hard into a magenta, back-lit, pop-star aesthetic, LA's design for the sequel to surprise horror hit M3GAN, has the most elegant alliteration tagline of the year, "Miss Me?" This could easily be a super hero or action movie poster, but that it...
TWO WOMEN Review: Like Trapped Birds, They Learn to Fly
Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Laurence Leboeuf, and Mani Soleymanlou star in director Chloé Robichaud's film.
Friday One Sheet: WICK IS PAIN
We love all things John Wick in these parts. You do not really need to sell us for a making-of documentary on the franchise, but a little meta elevator of film frames is a good way to do it. I...
Friday One Sheet: GOODBYE, FAREWELL
With its lush-urban greens and reds, and neon fonts, Evan Wijaya's key art design for Indonesian romantic drama Goodbye, Farewell (Sampai Jumpa, Selamat Tinggal) cannot help but evoke the 1990s cinematography work of Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express, Happy Together). The...
Friday One Sheet: HIGHEST 2 LOWEST
Give me a dominant colour, some architectural symmetry and a stylized title, and I am a happy boy. This cool blue teaser poster for the new Spike Lee Joint, Highest 2 Lowest, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic (and my...
SHARP CORNER Review: Drives Slowly With Purpose
Ben Foster, Cobie Smulders, Gavin Drea, and William Kosovic star in director Jason Buxton's psychodrama.
HONEY, DON'T! Trailer: A Coen Brother's Noir-Comedy
The Coen Brothers working separately have not exactly set the box office on fire, even if the films (The Tragedy of Macbeth, Drive Away Dolls) are well enough regarded. This may be about to change from Ethan Coen's Cannes bowing, star...
DARK MY LIGHT Review: Handsome Florida Neo-Noir with a Twist
A body, and a severed foot, which does not belong to said body, wash up on the beach of a small town outside of Jacksonville, Florida. The local police, who have only one detective on staff, suspect it might be...
Friday One Sheet: TOGETHER
There is close, and there is uncomfortably close. Perhaps there needs to be a third category, given the proximity of eyeballs in this poster for Together. Neon Pictures' head of design, Bianca Moran Parkes, has probably crafted the most disturbing...
Friday One Sheet: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Something that comes up in almost every entry of this column, lately, is the omission of the credit block in movie posters. As if to single-handedly compensate for this, the BLT Communications design for the latest Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: BROKEN BIRD, A Beautiful And Muddled Provocation
We meet Sybil confidently applying for a new job as undertaker’s assistant with the sharpest of black bangs, and a fashion sense that is both vintage and arthouse-modern. She is a seasoned pro with several references, and a balm for...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: TWO WOMEN, A Modern Remake of Quebec Sex Comedy
A tiny camera move during a scene at a Montreal Canadiens hockey game demonstrates what good direction can do: the storytelling happens via the camera itself, revealing the gag (which I will not) and surprising the audience with something possible...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes
Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: REVERIES: THE MIND PRISON, One Story Ends, Another Story Must Begin
You know that dream where you are running, to nowhere in particular, for no reason, and you trip, fall, and wake up? Reveries: The Mind Prison is the movie version of that dream. Only here, you are walking, and thus...
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Your mother wears combat boots in this high-grain poster for the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. Here it is less about the framing, credit-filling negative space, or the blocky stencil-ish typography, or anything else. The central...
Calgary Underground 2025: Curtain Raiser
Part fan-festival, with quietly subversive programming, and a gateway to oddness and offbeat cinema for Canada’s mid-west, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases a sampler of the highlights of indie, documentary and genre cinema from the festival circuit that...
SHARP CORNER Trailer: Ben Foster Loses His Mind and His Family
Happy National Canadian Film Day! To celebrate, Evolution Pictures has dropped the trailer for Sharp Corner, a Nova Scotia set film that takes a deeply psychological page out of an early 1990s style of filmmaking, which was popular in Canada...
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
Friday One Sheet: SPARE MY BONES, COYOTE!
We have featured the work of Dylan Haley before in these pages for his fine work on Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie 4K reissue some years ago. (Also we are big fans of his key art for The Belladonna of Sadness). His work...
