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Friday One Sheet: Soderbergh’s Prescription [Side Effects]
You’ve got to give credit for such an obvious, yet elegantly simple design of this poster. Fashioned as a prescription form with a very crisp, anxious looking, red tinted photo of Rooney Mara with a...
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Friday One Sheet: Family Portraits [STOKER]
Reminiscent of some contemporary Korean movie posters (typically in family portait style), the latest of several posters of Park Chan-Wook’s forthcoming english language debut, Stoker is pretty darn...
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Friday One Sheet: Bloody Macramé [Sightseers]
This German key art for Ben Wheatley’s delight-fully immoral comedy Sightseers is not only cute and wonderful, it’s also perfectly in line with the films crafty leading lady and her endless supply of...
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Friday One Sheet: A Girl and a Gun and a Balaclava
I‘m not sure if good ol’ Jean-Luc was thinking of Harmony Korine when he coined the phrase, “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl,” but it makes for great marketing angles. Spring Breakers,...
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Friday One Sheet: Beautiful Watercolours
We have seen nothing from the long gestating 47 Ronin since the movie was originally announced in 2008. It’s been four years, and two release date changes, hopefully the December 25th date is final,...
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Friday One Sheet: February Blues [Groundhog Day]
With tomorrow being perhaps the silliest North American ritual (that is saying something) of watching a rodent come out of a hole to see if he goes back in or stays out, I offer you some alternate...
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Friday One Sheet: Rewind This Nostalgia
For those quite familiar with hand-drawn VHS sleeves, and many movie posters of the 1980s, this poster for Rewind This, a documentary on the impact of VHS technology, will be familiar, if somewhat...
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Friday One Sheet: Furious Minimalism
The Fast and the Furious franchise is not known for its restraint or subtlety. Nevertheless, here they surprise us with this rather tasteful, minimal poster that makes great use of the open-road...
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Friday One Sheet: Mondo Master
Mondo Tees ads another unique and interesting design to the plethora of quality poster artwork for P.T. Anderson’s The Master. Highlighting the both the charisma and processing techniques of Lancaster...
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Friday One Sheet: Accessories! [Spring Breakers]
Far from the first film to make a poster from a layout of the tools of the trade, but I wish more films would take this elegant approach. The lollypop and condoms are a nice touch. Crowds may have...
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Friday One Sheet: Zero Charisma
With the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival kicking into high gear, we offer this handsome poster for Zero Charisma. A comedy From the folks behind popular movie-focused documentaries Best Worst Movie...
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Friday One Sheet: Shine On You Crazy Diamond!
Nicely echoing the original minimalist poster for The Shining, the new poster for Room 237, is simply lovely. Keeping the color (albeit a shade darker yellow) and typeface intact, but replacing the...
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Friday One Sheet: Newman!
It’s already that time of year again to be thinking forward to the most prestigious celebration of cinema (and often, celebrity, wealth and glamour) on the planet, The Cannes Film Festival. The...
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Friday One Sheet: World War Z
While this is a very eye catching one-sheet, it compares Zombie’s to bugs, and while the idea is quite scary, the CGI execution in the film leaves a bit to be desired. Prediction: This poster will be...
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Friday One Sheet: Text and The Kings of Summer
I don’t know who started the trend in movie posters of splashing big font text across the front of the movie posters. Was it the Italian movie, I Am Love? Was it Michael Clayton or The Social Network?...
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Friday One Sheet: Don’t Snort Your Ladder! (FILTH)
Irvine Welsh gets another big-screen adaptation of this satirical outlook on junkies and low-lives. Here it is a cop played by James McAvoy who is in therapy for his less-than-acceptable predilections...
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Friday One Sheet: Time to Meet the Neon [Only God Forgives]
I love the simplicity of the design here in yet another teaser poster for Only God Forgives. Scratched glass and pale neon, and the tagline in the maw of the dragon. Everything marketing-wise has been...
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Friday One Sheet: Not Criminally Responsible
With Canada’s Hot Docs festival underway, I feel it is worth highlight good poster design for documentaries. Playing this years festival is one called NCR. It is aa film about a woman who was stabbed...
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Friday One Sheet: Blood in the Water
While I like the typographical simplicity of Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac teaser poster, this weeks highlighted poster goes to the Sam Mendes produced triller, Blood. Desaturated color and a bright...
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Friday One Sheet: Type.
Both in their films and in their marketing, the Coen Brothers seem to always have a love and respect for good old fashioned typesetting. From the art deco of The Hudsucker Proxy to the wanted poster...
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