Tag: posters
Friday One Sheet: THE DARK AND THE WICKED
The title of Bryan Bertino's latest film is evocative all on its own. The Dark And The Wicked has a minimal, handsome poster, to compliment such a moniker. A film that begins with the description, "On a secluded farm in...
Tribeca 2019: Poster Debut for Mexican Thriller THE GASOLINE THIEVES (HUACHICOLERO)
One of our most anticipated movies at the upcoming Tribeca Film Fest is Edgar Nito's thriller The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero). With the producing power of Joshua Sobel, Tom Davia, Annick Manhert, Pablo Guisa, Hugues Barbier, Victor Leycegui, and Mario...
Friday One Sheet: SLICE And Brand Humor
The minimal teaser posters for A24's 'pizza delivery boy slasher film,' Slice, get right to the meat and cheese of the matter. B O N D, one of my favourite key art design houses who did the tropical Star Wars:...
Friday One Sheet: CAM And A Meltdown In Pink
This eye-catching pink hybrid of eroding paint and digital pixelation, exudes 'disturbed.' It feels like a modern take on the rich history of Polish poster designs. It is a surprising bit of key art to be released from Blumhouse pictures,...
Friday One Sheet: Design and Posture in A SIMPLE FAVOR
This strikingly handsome design for Paul Feig's latest film, A Simple Favor, feels as much like a teaser as the mainline poster, offering little but a look at its stars in perfect posture, a cocktail, and a staircase in the middle...
Friday One Sheet: TO THE NIGHT
This striking hand-painted key art for Peter Brunner's latest, takes one of the most interesting visages, that of Caleb Landry Jones, and renders it in hand-painted abstraction, with emotion intact. Many of you are probably familiar with the hard-working actor...
Friday One Sheet: Design Homage in SIBERIA
When is a design a homage to an iconic previous design, and when is it just lazy theft? I have no idea if the new Keanu Reeves movie, Siberia, mirrors or echoes content from the 1969 Robert Redford skiing drama....
Friday One Sheet: FIRST MAN
What struck me most about this poster for the IMAX release of an upcoming Neil Armstrong biopic, is that at first glance it looks less like a rocket launch, and more like a religious pyre for some early Clan of...
Friday One Sheet: 93QUEEN and THE RUSSIAN JOB
Hot Docs is currently happening in Toronto, and while researching what to see, and what to include in our previous Curtain Raiser post, I came across a few well designed posters for films at the fest. One publicist was kind...
Friday One Sheet: WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR And The Halo Gradient
The first time I saw the 'halo gradient' character poster was in the marketing for Judd Apatow's The 40 Year Old Virgin. Since then, it has become kind somewhat of a key art cliche. This is mainly due to the...
SXSW 2018 Wrap: All Our Coverage + Some Awesome Posters
That's a wrap on SXSW 2018. We've got a collection of photos of the coolest posters from the festival's poster gallery below right after links to all our coverage. See you next year, Austin! (Or, you know, at Fantastic...
Friday One Sheet: Text As Image UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
It has been an interesting week in text focused teaser posters, and we have selected the key art for David Robert Mitchell's follow-up to It Follows to capture this. The reason why I love this design (notwithstanding the cliché of...
Friday One Sheet: LOWLIFE
It is a good day if you like the Character-Collage style poster, as indie-LA picture Lowlife has released a good one in anticipation of their April 6th release. Warm yellow-orange colour tones showcase the Luchador at the centre of the...
Friday One Sheet: YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
Three colour, simple, and bloody, this is one of several pieces of key art for Lynne Ramsay's take on Taxi Driver, featuring Joaquin Phoenix, which at one point was called A Beautiful Day, but will be released as You Were Never...
Friday One Sheet: PACIFIC RIM (pink) UPRISING
The trend of pink posters bleeds into 2018 from last year's significant use of the colour in key art. Here, for one of three Pacific Rim: Uprising IMAX posters, the bold combination of hot pink and electric lime is used...
Friday One Sheet: PIERCING
This eye-catching design for the film adaptation of Murakami Ryu's 1994 novel, making its debut at Sundance, has a kind of Jack Davis sort of look. Davis, most famous for Mad Magazine, had a long good run on movie posters...
Friday One Sheet: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
Kicking off a new column here, in which we will look at the most interesting, or conversation-worthy poster of the week, every Friday morning. Sometimes we will talk about design, other times about influences on other iconic films, or historical...
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: Coverage Wrap Up & Killer Poster Gallery
Reviews 68 Kill Review by J Hurtado Baby Driver Review by Peter Martin Bad Lucky Goat Review by Peter Martin California Dreams Review by Peter Martin David Lynch - The Art of Life Review by Zach Gayne The Disaster...
Check Out This Collection Of IP MAN 3 Character Posters!
With the release of Wilson Yip's Ip Man 3 drawing ever closer a collection of six individual character posters have been released for the film. You want your Donnie Yen in the title role? That's in there. A bit of...
THE LOBSTER: First Posters From Lanthimos' Latest
Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos heads to Cannes with his English language debut, The Lobster, and the first posters have arrived online in advance of the big fest.THE LOBSTER is the highly anticipated English language debut of internationally acclaimed Greek director...
