The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

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..

We have a 4th Century monk and a 6th Century Pope to thank for the seven deadly sins.

And, we have David Fincher to thank for 1995's serial killer thriller Seven.

Nearly thirty years later, we continue our countdown to Halloween with a look back at a dark masterpiece that still has the ability to surprise, shock and make us look at modern society a little differently.

A month out, we are starting our countdown to Halloween!

Let’s start by taking a look at a classic ghost story, its terrifying big-screen adaptation, and.. Ahem… slightly less effective big-budget remake.

There have always been hit songs from movies in the music charts but the ‘90s took it to a whole new level. It was the decade when a string of mega chart-toppers were wall-to-wall on the radio and formed an integral part of the soundtrack of our lives.

Let’s take a look at some of the biggest movie-related hits of the decade.

One is a darkly comic film noir. The other is an evergreen Technicolor musical.

Yet taken together, Sunset Boulevard and Singin’ in the Rain form a consistent narrative about one of the greatest innovations to hit the movie industry: recorded sound…

The 1990s was a hugely successful time for American independent cinema and in 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez took guerrilla film-making to its logical extreme. The result was The Blair Witch Project, a shoestring horror that became one of the most influential and talked about movies of the decade.

Let’s take a look back as the movie celebrates its 25th anniversary…