Fact: Knocked Up’s main poster was a big close-up of Rogen’s head. That movie earned over $148 million dollars domestically. Fact: Pineapple Express had a poster that was a big close-up of Rogen’s head, but also had several other equally important posters including many featuring James Franco. That movie earned over $87 million dollars domestically. [...]

Over the years I’ve become sort of a Pixar fanboy, so you should take it with a grain of salt when I say that these characters are adorable, especially the old guy. So grouchy. These two posters don’t show us much more than we have already seen, altough the dog is new, which seems to [...]

So, this film is actually coming out? This year even? After all this time? I can hardly believe it. And yet, we have posters, so it must be true. And what do the posters tell us about the movie? Mostly that it will be bloody. Very bloody. Very, very bloody. So bloody in fact that [...]

When the first posters were released for Benjamin Button I struggled with what to say about them. That was months ago, but I’m still struggling. I’m basically mesmerized by what are, on the surface, very simple posters. Just the actors faces against a pitch black background. And yet, there is something more in there. The [...]

The Reader has had quite a few different posters, but most focus on some variation of Ralph and Kate sharing something. The above variation is my favorite because of the way it combines the most interesting elements of the other posters into one nice package. It is basically a classic “very serious movie” poster. The [...]

When I first saw this poster for Slumdog I knew close to nothing about the film, and my reaction was basically “this is very ugly”. I hated the shining, colorful lights, the floating semi-transparent head, and, worst of all, the cheesy “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” inspired substitute for a tagline. As I learned [...]

The first time I saw the above poster I thought the background was a photo of actual milk being poured. Seemed like a lovely literal interpretation of something one wouldn’t expect to be interpreted literally. Well, it’s not milk. But I imagine the designer was conscious of the resemblance and got a kick out of [...]

Frost/Nixon is basically an intimate, almost claustrophobic story. The poster takes a cue from that and shows us the the people at the center of this story. Nixon, swollen by shadows, and Frost in the light and looking decisive, almost angry. Honestly, its a little too claustrophobic for my own tastes. And yet, I can’t [...]

Can I just point out that this poster for The International has two URLs? One scribbled in the middle and another one in the bottom. That is so confusing! To which one am I supposed to go? What seems to have happened here is that they took the original poster and decided to reuse it [...]

Well, that looks … painful, mostly. This is apparently the final poster for Crank 2, which is a little disappointing because I was hoping for a few more cool teasers. I mean, we got this one, which was fine. But not only is it based on a poster for the original, it isn’t even based [...]