The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

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…

The Godfather is a rare thing: An artfully made crowd-pleaser that smashed it at the box office and delighted both critics and a mainstream audience.

Over half a century since it premiered, Lee Adams takes a look back at Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus.

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel!

After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now plunge back into an era before the term “cult movie” even existed.

This week we complete our list with N to Z.

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel!

After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now plunge back into an era before the term “cult movie” even existed. This week, A to M.

The world of super-hero franchises moves quickly and nothing stays the latest version of anything for very long. Sometimes it blows my mind that we’re already two Batmans (three if you count Will Arnett’s Lego version) down the line from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy!

With the middle instalment sitting third in the IMDb Top 250, is it the definitive screen version of the Caped Crusader?

Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns were made roughly equidistant between the origins of the genre and the present day. It is hard to think of another series of films that so definitively drew a line under what came before and set the tone for everything that came after.

This week, Lee Adams explores why the Dollars Trilogy remains so popular today.

In 2002, film critic Colin McCabe ruffled feathers by submitting Carry on Cleo and Carry On Up The Khyber among his picks for the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made.

They may not be fine art, but we Brits loved a Carry On on a bank holiday!

This week Lee Adams takes a look at the cultural impact of the much-loved and equally much frowned-upon comedy series.

Movie franchises come and go, some rumble on forever, and others are landmark moments in film.

As Lee Adams explores, over 20 years since the first instalment of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy hit theatres, it still feels like a monumental achievement.

Every year, many great movies, directors and performances miss out on nominations and these snubs have dominated the Oscar narrative over the past decade or so, increasingly so this year!

So, Lee Adams takes a look back at some of the greatest (or worst) snubs in Oscar history.

Who doesn’t love a good tearjerker?

As Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation turns 21, Lee Adams takes a look at some superb movies that never leave a dry eye in the house…