Fresh off his on-the-Moneyball portrayal, let’s hope that Jonah Hill’s new R-rated-looking PG-13 flick, The Sitter, is as funny and charming as the original PG’d Adventures In Babysitting (w/poster by Drew Struzan). (ImpAwards)
Category Archives: 1980s posters
Real Men Wear Black!
Is Sean Penn’s new one-sheet for This Must Be The Place an homage to the 1968 Italian film poster for The Bride Wore Black (by Ferracci)? (ImpAwards and EatBrie)
Of course, don’t confuse these titles with this Chuck Norris fashionable-action classic…
Drive Hard!
Ryan Gosling appears to be doing his best Steve McQueen in this weekend’s high-testosterone octane release, Drive.
Btw, here’s a few other scenic drives, including the classic Taxi Driver one-sheet, which features the graphic stylings of Guy Peellaert)…
Cavewomen!
Inspired by Raquel Welch’s sexy pre-historic One Million Years BC poster (which was also featured prominently in The Shawshank Redemption), a friend wrote in to mention Barbara Bach’s loincloth-clad turn in the classic — or, more likely, never-seen — 1980’s Ringo Starr comedy, Caveman…
Unhappy Labor Day!
Your Friends and Moderns?
Pop artist, Alex Katz, did this 1990’s movie poster for Neil LaBute’s urban-angst flick, Your Friends & Neighbors — which looks nicely paired with the 1988 one-sheet for The Moderns, a film that loosely covers that same territory of Woody Allen’s recent Midnight In Paris — proving once again that some posters are indeed timeless.
Crazy 4 Movie Posters!
If you’re into indie underground artists such as Eric Tan and Shepard Fairey, then you might be ready to get brainwashed by Crazy4Cult: Cult Movie Art ($34.95), a new movie poster book from UK publisher, Titan Books.
This book is based on a past celebrated art/film show that debuted a few years ago at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles
Hats Love?
Poster Ripoff Flashback!
My belated apologies, but methinks the first Oceans 11 remake poster (2001) took some very definite, ahem, creative license from a band called The Smithereens and their much, much lesser-known 1989 album cover, 11.
Movie Poster Museum 