Friday One Sheet: THE NIGHT IS DARK AND COLDER THAN THE DAY
Here is a beautiful use of text and negative space, from IFFR, The International Film Festival Rotterdam in south Holland. Christina Friedrich's film may have a lengthy, and debatably cumbersome title, The Night Is Dark And Colder Than The Day,...
Friday One Sheet: I LOVE YOU FOREVER
For Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani's anti RomCom, I Love You Forever, the key art is all about the blank white wall. I know I have been going on for some time about the death of movie credit blocks on...
On David Lynch
It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and remembering that I've not seen the like...
Friday One Sheet: THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
Giving off a serious Greek Tragedy aesthetic, the key art for James Ashcroft's psychological thriller, The Rule of Janny Pen, leans into hollowed eyes, textured porcelain, and creepy doll vibes. There is a kind of shadowy minimalism going on here,...
HARD TRUTHS Review: Scathing, Searing, Loving
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a blistering performance in Mike Leigh's piercing drama.
Friday One Sheet: A Japanese Four Poster Tribute to David Lynch
I will not say too much in this column on the passing of cinematic master and icon, David Lynch, as there will be more on the subject to follow in the coming days. Few filmmakers left a more lasting impression...
Friday One Sheet: A WORKING MAN
Is there a more succinct description of Jason Statham's career than the title of David Ayer's latest collaboration with him? The graphic designer of the poster seems to think that there is not, given how prominently it features here. The...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2024
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it's time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total...
Friday One Sheet: The Best Posters of 2024
If there was one trend I saw when selecting Key Art for this column in all of 2024, it was nearly every designer doing their utmost to not include the credit block. Either there was an unusual number of teaser...
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT @ 25
As is tradition for this column, the penultimate entry before the year's end is an alternate poster for Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. I like this one for its simplicity of execution. Take a postcard for the famous...
THE BRUTALIST Review: Big Canvas, Real Intimacy, Human Grace
Brady Corbet directs; Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn star.
BLACK BAG Trailer: Michael Fassbender Does Not Like Liars in Steven Soderbergh's Spy Potboiler
It is pleasing to see how effortlessly director Steven Soderbergh makes the kind of of low-key espionage potboilers Black Bag, or previously with Michael Fassbender, Haywire, seem. Collaborating again with screenwriter David Koepp (Presence, Kimi) this spy drama about George Woodhouse (Fassbender)...
Friday One Sheet: 28 YEARS LATER
As the long awaited third chapter in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later franchise gears up its marketing machine (the superb teaser trailer dropped earlier this week), it is worth looking back at over 20 years since the birth of the...
28 YEARS LATER Trailer is Grim, Poetic and Medieval
If ever there was a franchise that deserved a third part, it is Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's "Days Later..." concept. The first one, 28 Days Later... was the pop cultural birth of both the 'fast zombie' as well as...
Friday One Sheet: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Brutalism is back, baby! Behold the mighty Winnipeg mortar arches, and thin veneer of snow that together form one of many visual motifs in Matthew Rankin's superbly dry dramedy Universal Language. A large part of the film's delights come from...
SEPARATED Review: The Past Is Prologue on US Immigration Policy
In the first half of the first Trump administration, several thousand children were forcibly separated from their parents in a ‘zero-tolerance’ deterrence policy that was cynically designed to discourage Latin American migrants from seeking entry into the United States of...
Friday One Sheet: 100 Years of NOSFERATU
The above German poster from 1922 by Albin Grau (scanned from trade magazine Der Film: Zeitschrift für die Gesamt-Interessen der Kinematographie) sold for $21,000 in July 2014. A jack of all trades, Grau was largely responsible for not only the key art,...
Friday One Sheet: HOT FROSTY (Sorry)
I apologized in the title, and I apologize again here, for propagating the deluge of Christmas themed romantic and family slop on the various streaming services. Recently this is providing much needed work for Lindsay Lohan, albeit Lohan does not appear the...
GHOST CAT ANZU Review: Jaws Will Drop
To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...
Friday One Sheet: PĂRVULOS
After featuring a number of key art that left the standard credit block out the design, it is nice to see this poster from Mexico's festival darling coming-of-age plague-zombie film, Párvulos, has a more traditional sense, where they are tucked...
