Tag: fridayonesheet
Friday One Sheet: WICKER
No, not that Wicker Man. Today's poster is from a different kind of folklore, based on the short story from Ursula Wills wherein an outcast woman in a fishing village commissions a husband to be made out of wicker. Pygmalion,...
Friday One Sheet: HOT SPOT
Ochre and clay and sulphur, oh my! The poster for Agnieszka Smoczynska's big budget Artificial Intelligence dystopian sci-fi thriller, Hot Spot, is from Gravillis, the design house who did yeoman's work on the campaigns for Sinners and Obsession in the past year. ...
Friday One Sheet: WOMAN, DYING
This is the third time that Spanish art director and designer Octavio Terol Bernabé has been featured in this column. Previous designs both made the Top 10 posters of 2025. It is safe to say that we are fans of...
Friday One Sheet: NIGHT NURSE
Is the erotic thriller back? Sundance entry Night Nurse makes a solid case for the return of a genre that peaked (peeked? piqued?) in the 1990s and then quietly disappeared over the past two and a half decades. The key...
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up...
Friday One Sheet: SKIN OF YOUTH
I am here for the vertical and the horizontal. I am here for the grain, and the juxtaposition of skin tones and jade. I am here for the simple connection of two human beings in shared repose. Sometimes, key art...
Friday One Sheet: EASY GIRL
Nore is a self-styled femme fatale who refuses to spend a night alone -- even if it means relying on strangers. Without a home of her own, she drifts from one pub rendezvous to the next, seducing admiring regulars. But...
Friday One Sheet: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN
What went wrong here, exactly? Normally, this column is a celebration of novel, or exceptionally designed key art from around the world. Today, however we shall take a look at one of the worst posters of the year, one that...
Friday One Sheet: KINDERGARTEN
The poster for this Quebec observational documentary on early childhood, through the titular jardin d'enfants (kindergarden), has at its centre a whimsical, but dense, illustration from France's Jean Millard. His work in watercolor and gouache (a water-based, opaque paint known for its...
Friday One Sheet: IL DIO DELLAMORE
Francesco Lagi's Il Dio Dell'amore weaves together the lives of several characters dealing with complicated relationships, hidden desires, and fragile emotional balances, in the fashion of Short Cuts or Magnolia. The film gets a classical, handsome piece of key art from Italian...
Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS
One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube...
Friday One Sheet: THE END OF OAK STREET
A fine vertical teaser is this, the key art for the long awaited return of David Robert Mitchell. After the instant cult success of It Follows, he failed to connect with a mass audience with the sprawling neo-noir conspiracy oriented...
Friday One Sheet: FACES OF DEATH
Exploiting on the one of the odder alleys of nostalgia, a modern remake of the American Mondo cult classic Faces of Death gets its turn in the meat grinder of capitalism.
Friday One Sheet: OBSESSION
We posted the trailer and poster for Curry Barker's darkly whimsical horror comedy, Obsession, earlier this week. However, the key art, from design house grandson, bears a bit more discussion in today's column. Sometimes, simply an iconic still from the...
Friday One Sheet: PHENOMENA
"A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe." The poster for Josef Gatti's visual science documentary, Phenomena (not to be confused with the Dario Argento's insect telekinesis movie) is busy and strange. Just like the universe, which if you expand your...
Friday One Sheet: LIVING THE LAND
There are some posters which communicate to the observer that, if they like their films with exceptional composition and visual mise en scène, then they are in good filmmaking hands. The key art for Huo Meng's Venice Silver Bear winner,...
Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA
Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...
Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground Film Festival 2026
Western Canada's ever-expanding genre extravaganza, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF for short) has put out its key art in anticipation of its April 16th launch. In keeping with its maximalist underground comix design ethos, and always using a...
Friday One Sheet: REMNANTS
This is the third time we have featured design house The Robot Eye in this column. Here, for Michael Catenacci's 23-minute short film around ranchers and environmental devastation, Remnants, we have the incongruent image of the noble cowboy in the foggy...
Friday One Sheet: The Best Posters of 2025
Welcome to the final Friday One Sheet column of the year. Like 2025 cinema, it was a great year for quality, but without too much thematic cohesion, so I will keep the text short and sweet. Presented in no...
