Tag: keyart
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
Friday One Sheet: OXANA
There is no point in subtlety in street protest. And the poster for French-Ukranian biopic of Oxana Chatchko aims to confront - in the movie poster context. Swearing, political slogans, and toplessness are all part of activist group FEMEN's modus operandi...
Friday One Sheet: TODO LO QUE NO SÉ
Typography so interesting that the lead character cannot help but stare at it. The warm, creamy key art for Ana Lambarri's Todo lo que no sé (translation: Everything I Don't Know) is from Spanish designer Octavio Terol Bernabé. It checks a lot of...
Friday One Sheet: UNDER THE BURNING SUN
Warm and desolate at the same time, Yun Xie's tight 75 minute science fiction picture, Under The Burning Sun is a road trip across the desert; a journey to an uncertain freedom by a solitary pregnant woman. The key art may...
Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground 2025
"Lowbrow maximalist illustrations brimming with thoughtful puns, juicy buns, and innuendo." This is how illustrator Hamburger Hands (aka Kyle Schneider) describes his work, here for the 22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival, and its key art. It is an ode to Underground Comix...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
