As we hurl towards another three-day holiday weekend in the USA, I’ve noticed a buzz trending soon to a theatre near you…(IMP)
Category Archives: Movie Poster Smackdown
Blood Runs Deep…
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…all the way back to the 70s (French Connection)! (IMP)
French Cape Fear!
Black Rock Friday!
The indie female-driven thriller, Black Rock, washes up at movie theatres this weekend — and I’m digging the new spin on a classic taken by Ignition Print for the one-sheet. Inspired by such designers as Bill Gold (Deliverance), Jason Munn (Treasure Island Music Festival), and Steve Frankfurt (Rosemary’s Baby), this Black Rock poster is solid! (IMP)
Ocean’s 17?
Even teenage thieves have to start somewhere…
Bar Nuns!
I don’t think Teresa is about Mother Theresa, but these two French beauties by Boris Grinsson and Jean Mascii are second to none!
Watts Up?
Although not a household name to casual moviegoers, Naomi Watts has made a strong impression in many memorable one-sheets, most notably Akiko Stehrenberger’s beautifully-designed Funny Games!(IMP)
Natural Blondes?
It appears that the new one-sheet for The Exquisite Corpse Project has a poster crush on the recent Hemingway relative pic, Starlet. (IMP)
Sexy Covers!
Movie posters are to movies what album covers are to albums — so here’s the Sexiest Album Covers of All-Time, according to Aidin Vaziri of SFGate.
It’s NOT A Movie Poster Disaster…
The new one-sheet for It’s A Disaster offers an updated take on one of my all-time favorite 80s movie posters — the Burt Reynolds starrer, Paternity (designed by Birney Lettick), as well as the Belushi-Spielberg comedy, 1941. (IMP)
Driving Miss Diva…
Spring Bling Ring Things!
Who needs a pretty face on your poster if your movie is about stealing pretty things? (IMP)
Classic Car Talk!
The new Gatsby poster adds some polish to the car movie poster.
But if you’re really serious about your automotive-inspired one-sheets, you’ll get plenty of mileage out of Paul Veysey’s Motorin’ Movie Posters book.(IMP)
A Kinder, Gentler Spring Breakers…
This new Spring Breakers poster reminds me of the 90s Big Chill ripoff, Indian Summer.(IMP)
War of the Movie Posters
War is hell…even for movie posters.
Remakes vs. Originals
So many remakes, so little time…If you have a hard time remembering (or even knowing about) the forefathers of some of today’s films — take a look at IMP’s excellent ‘Remakes vs. Originals’ movie poster breakdown! (IMP)
The Catcher in the Rye Returns
Anybody who went to English class in the past sixty years or so has probably read J.D. Salinger’s classic coming-of-age novel, The Catcher in the Rye (below, right).
And now there’s a documentary coming out soon about the notoriously reclusive (now deceased) author, which is aptly-titled, Salinger — and I’m liking the paperback cover-inspired poster. (THR)
Look For the Silver Linings…
If you need a visual to differentiate today’s movie posters with one-sheets from the 1940s, then look no further than last year’s Oscar darling, Silver Linings Playbook, compared with the Boris Grinsson-designed French poster for Look For the Silver Lining (1949)…
White House Downers?
Another disturbing trend: American disaster movies. (IMP)
Hudson Hawn!
Like mother, like daughter — or, if Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson were a tag team wrestling duo, you could call ‘em Hudson Hawk Hawn (not to be confused with Raquel Welch-port or Barbie Aniston)! Although neither family members have set the box office on fire recently, their history of romantic comedy movie posters are solid Gold-ie!(IMP)
