The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

In Home Alone, screenwriter John Hughes and director Chris Columbus combine to take every parent’s nightmare and turn it into twinkly holiday fun.

Now 35 years old, it has become an annual tradition for many families and perhaps, Home Alone is just about the perfect festive film.

First broadcast on Channel 4 in 1982, The Snowman has aired every festive season since.

Like millions of families across the UK, the warm and melancholy adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ wordless picture book is a staple of our Christmases.

A Ghost for Christmas was a beloved series of BBC supernatural dramas broadcast through the 1970s, bringing eerie, atmospheric ghost stories to television audiences each winter. 

Often adapted from classic writers such as M.R. James, the series became a festive tradition, chilling, sometimes beautifully made and perfectly timed for those dark December nights.

The Hallmark Channel has been producing Christmas movies for over twenty years. There are now over 300 to choose from and 29 new offerings this year!

If you haven't yet seen one, which one do you choose? Well, we decided to start with 2023's A Biltmore Christmas.

Santa is well-known for being jolly, of course, but what if that guy turns out to be a homicidal maniac?

That is the fear we tap into with the peculiar horror sub-genre of Santa slasher movies.

Like many families in the UK, we would always have a cupboard full of goodies and sweets ready for Christmas. Invariably, one of the offerings would be a big tin of Quality Street chocolates.

The artwork on the tub evoked vintage times and perhaps due to this, I always thought of Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis as the Quality Street of movies.

Once broadcast and swiftly buried, the Star Wars Holiday Special has since gained mythic status among sci-fi fans. 

Let's take a look at why the part musical, part sitcom, and entirely surreal TV show refuses to fade from pop-culture memory.

It’s the festive season once again and movie buffs are gearing up for that big annual debate: Is Die Hard a Christmas film?

But there are voices out there also making a case for Lethal Weapon as an action-packed alternative to the standard Christmas fare...

The earliest days of cinema were a time of pure experimentation and wonder, a period when moving images first flickered to life before astonished audiences.

Over one hundred years later, cinema has evolved into a global art form that blends storytelling, technology and culture on an unprecedented scale.

The Vintage Tribute's 100 Years of Cinema is a fantastic reminder of the power of cinema.

Just as the artwork of Uma Thurman smoking on a bed was one of the most iconic movie posters of the ‘90s, the eclectic selection of tunes that Tarantino assembled for the soundtrack was one of the must-have CDs of the decade.

Let’s take a look at that track list and the story behind the songs.

As one of England’s loudest and most punctual bands make their glorious return to the big screen in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, we head back four decades to the “Smell the Glove” tour and take a look at Rob Reiner’s original cult classic.

Let’s boogie!

With Alien: Earth taking plaudits and wowing audiences on Netflix, we conclude our retrospective of the original Alien quartet with a look back at the divisive Alien Resurrection.

Let’s get freaky!