Dial M For Ripoff?

Eagle-eyed Neil Jaworski spotted the Saul Bass (The Human Factor) homage on this new book cover for Tom Watson’s Dial M For Murdoch, which ironically chronicles the Fox founder’s hacking scandal…(MOPO)

Hipster Disney Posters?

Looks like Liverpool graphic designer, Rowan Stocks-Moore, has pared down the Disney classics with some intriguing new hip, minimalist takes on the enduring children’s storybook tales…available on Etsy.

Hop-kock!

Anthony Hopkins (pictured right) is slated to become Alfred Hitchcock (aka Hop-Kock!) in an upcoming biopic on The Master of Suspense. Hopefully, the one-sheet won’t go to The Birds and will be as mysteriously elegant as vintage French-Cock.

Pretty In Pink

Pink is the new black — at least when it comes to the trendy font flavor of the movie poster. Needless to say, the color has been around for a while ever since it got its start on Jack Rickard’s Pink Panther one-sheet back in 1963 and continued its hot streak up through the 1980s with a string of John Hughes movies. (ImpAwards)

Mondo Movie Posters!

“It’s sexy time!”, to paraphrase Borat, as we delve into the strange, sensational, hyper-sexualized film genre known as Mondo (not to be confused with the other Mondo gang at Alamo Drafthouse).

Before Reality TV, the creation of Italian mondo cinema in the 1960s gave birth to a weird world of exploitation documentaries that covered many taboo subjects, including sex, death, and pretty much anything else that could either turn you on or creep you out (thank you, Russ Meyer!).

But the one good thing to come out of all this depravity is a remarkably gorgeous portfolio of movie posters, featuring artwork from such mainstream International designers as Manfredo Acerbo and Constantin Belinsky. (Images courtesy of Film Art Gallery and EMP.)

On The Road…Again?

I love Jack Kerouac –– but surely the studio can come up with something more original than this one-sheet for such an American literary classic as On The Road, right? (ImpAwards)

Posters of Valor

Keep Calm and Cary Grant

If you’re a graphic design/poster aficionado, then you no doubt have seen those vintage British-anthemed ‘Keep Calm and Carry On‘ posters here and abroad. But have you seen the Hitchcock-inspired Cary Grant spoofs from North By Northwest ? (Etsy)

Real Scary Women Wear Black!

They say real men wear black, but I beg to differ as Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe gets a little dark in this weekend’s Woman In Black