The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

Tim Burton has a visual style as strong as any other director and an eccentric sensibility that distinguishes his movies from most. 

They haven't all been hits and our resident film-buff is still having nightmares over the ending to Planet of the Apes.

As part of his healing, let's take a look at Lee Adams' top 10 Tim Burton movies!

The Super Mario Bros. Movie recently became the fifty-second film to take over $1B at the global box office. The list is full of big name movies – everyone will have heard of them.

So, it feels like it is time for a quiz!

Can you complete The $1B Film Club Quiz?

‘80s and ‘90s action cinema was dominated by the long-standing rivalry between two larger-than-life superstars, before they buried the hatchet and finally appeared together onscreen in The Expendables.

This week Lee Adams takes a look at how their careers played out in movie posters…

We have written before of our love of illustrated posters of the twentieth century.  The rise of the personal computer all but killed the art form, but that is changing .

This week, the BBC recognised that with a wonderful article on the 40th Anniversary poster for The Return of the Jedi, by British artist Matt Ferguson.

Documentaries have enjoyed something of a facelift since the turn of the century. 

Suddenly, documentaries were hot and the success of Michael Moore’s films paved the way for a golden age of documentary filmmaking. 

As he sets out to make his own, writer turned film-maker Lee Adams delves in to the world of the documentary movie.

Art of the Movies HQ is about 2.5 miles from Warner Brothers Studios Leavesden but, incredibly, until last weekend, the AotM family had never been to their Making of Harry Potter experience.

What an experience it is! Without spoiling any of the magic, here are a few of our highlights. 

The cult comedy The Big Lebowski recently marked its 25th Anniversary, causing Dudes all over the world to break out the White Russians.

To celebrate, in the second half of this two-parter, here are Lee Adams' 20 favourite scenes from the unique world of the Coen Brothers…

The cult comedy The Big Lebowski recently marked its 25th Anniversary, causing Dudes all over the world to break out the White Russians.

To celebrate, in the first half of this two-parter, here are Lee Adams' 20 favourite scenes from the unique world of the Coen Brothers…

It is amazing how many people have kept the Star Wars posters they had on their walls as kids. It's also amazing how many turn up in lofts / car boot sales / yard sales and provincial auctions.

So, we get asked a lot "Is My Star Wars poster real?" 

This article may help.

Very few things say “movie magic” more than the dazzling brilliance of Technicolor, brighter than life and capable of banishing the worries of the ordinary world for a few hours.

There are some fantastic examples of Technicolor films, but here are the dazzlingly brilliant Lee Adams' picks.

If you spend enough time reading about movie posters, you will occasionally come across the term "... visible under a black light".

We have been asked a few times what that means, so we thought it was about time we addressed the question on the blog!

Over the past few years we have all become more aware of the impact that we have on the small planet we call Earth.

In 2021 we approached Ecologi, an environmental organisation who fund climate positive projects around the world, to see how we could try and address our own impact...