The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

We all love rooting for our screen heroes but they would be nothing without a great villain to go up against. Almost since the very beginning, cinema has provided plenty of memorable antagonists for us to boo and hiss, as well as a fair few that give us sleepless nights.

This week we begin our two-part countdown of forty of the finest.

Over 30 years after it was first released, the almost universal love felt towards Shawshank is all the more remarkable considering it flopped hard at the box office.

Why does Frank Darabont’s prison tale strike such a chord with so many people?

Seeing as The Matrix didn't make our list of the greatest trailers, we thought we should redress the balance!

So, this week Lee Adams takes a look at how the Wachowskis’ groundbreaking cyberpunk action thriller became an iconic pop culture moment that still speaks to viewers today.

Blown away by the trailer for Danny Boyle's upcoming zombie sequel, 28 Years Later, Lee Adams decided to take a look back at some of the Greatest Movie Trailers Ever Made.

Did your favourite make the list?

It is thirty-one years since Schindler’s List swept the Academy Awards with seven wins, earning Steven Spielberg Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.

In the week that commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and to celebrate the important success of this landmark film, Lee Adams takes a look at its long journey to the screen and how the story of Schindler’s Ark continues today.

Since his eye-catching calling card Memento in 2000, Christopher Nolan has become one of the most influential and profitable filmmakers of the 21st Century.

Over almost 25 years, it hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that he repeatedly comes back to one obsessive theme: Time and its all-encompassing effect on our lives. 

Let’s take a look at the Nolan movies where chronology plays a major part in how the narrative unfolds.

Seven years after The Dude first appeared in the Coen Brothers' Big Lebowski, an entire religion had sprung up: Dudeism, or The Church of the Latter-Day Dude.

This made us wonder why another beloved ‘90s movie character doesn’t have more of a following in these terms: Forrest Gump. After all, he is arguably even more Dude than The Dude...

With Wicked wowing audiences and winning plaudits worldwide, we take a look back at the production of one of our favourite seasonal movies, The Wizard of Oz.

It may not be a film about Christmas, but is there a more traditional movie to watch over the festive period?

Christmas is traditionally a time for telling scary stories and Bob Clark gave us one of the finest festive horror movies ever made half a century ago.

That film is Black Christmas, and we celebrate its 50th anniversary by taking a look back at the seminal slasher and another seasonal shocker it inspired.

With Alien: Romulus gaining rave reviews this year, we continue our series looking back at the original four movies in the Alien franchise.

Next up, the most troubled, maligned, debated, and re-appraised film in the entire series: David Fincher’s Alien 3.

Bloodsuckers have appeared in movies since the 1920's, but between then and 1979, there was very little in the way of innovation.

This week we continue our countdown to Halloween with an exploration of the decade when vampires were everywhere and they didn't all wear capes..