The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

It is a little over nine years since legendary film critic Roger Ebert passed away.

In the first of a two part article, Lee Adams takes a look back at his work, influence, and some of his favourite films.

Forty years after it crashed and burned at the box office, John Carpenter’s masterpiece The Thing recently made a triumphant return to the big screen.

To celebrate, we take a look at the career of the incredibly influential “Master of Horror”.

While the U.S. has majored on the portrait format One Sheet movie poster, for nearly a century of cinema, the U.K. has stuck to its own unique poster format, the Quad.

But, why is it called a Quad?

The answer lies in two hundred years of paper history.

After recently binge-watching the second season of Russian Doll, Lee Adams found himself in the mood to travel... to time travel!

So let’s take a journey back in time with him and check out some of the most interesting time travel movies of the past sixty years…

The instantly recognisable Jurassic Park logo is one of the most iconic movie titles of all time.

With the release of Jurassic World: Dominion, we take a look at the evolution of a design that has lasted over thirty years.

Can you believe that we are nearly half way through the year already?

This week we take a look back at the blockbusters released so far and preview the best of the films yet to come.

You can watch all of their trailers here!

Premiering in New York City on May 12, 1986, Top Gun would open at 1028 U.S. movie theatres a few days later. At the end of its theatrical run, it had taken $357M at the box office.

Now, after thirty-six years, it is time to zip up our flight suits, climb in to our cockpits and fire up the after-burners. It is time for Top Gun: Maverick!

This month sees the release of Firestarter, a remake of the 1984 pyrokinetic horror starring Drew Barrymore.

This film is just one of dozens based on the works of Stephen King, so Lee Adams braced himself for jump-scares and put together a list of his favourites…

On its December release, we will have waited thirteen years for Avatar: The Way of Water.

To give a taste of what is to come, an official teaser trailer has just been released. It is breath taking. The level of realism takes computer generated imagery and movie making to another level.

You can watch it here!

Wherever there are items of value, there will be people trying to take advantage. The world of movie posters is no different.

From Star Wars to Pulp Fiction, from Back To The Future to Apocalypse Now, reproductions, bootlegs and fakes have surfaced for many collectible titles.

This week, we take a look at a poster that the seller insisted was an original UK quad for the 50th Anniversary release of The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night.

Independence Day, Romeo + Juliet, The Usual Suspects… we had some big hitters in Part One, so which movies will make up the Top 15 as we continue our Journey to the Centre of the Nineties?

We have been lapping up 1980's nostalgia for over two decades but what about the 1990's?

Lee Adams decided that they needed a bit of love and set off to pick thirty movies that define the decade as a whole. Not necessarily the best movies of the decade, but the most ‘90s.

Here is part 1. Do you agree with him?