This week's Poster of the Week is for the double bill of Enter The Dragon and Death Race 2000. Double bills were very popular at cinemas in the UK in the 70's and 80's and seemingly the more lurid films the better with horror, kung-fu and cult films being selected for these billings which were …
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This week's Poster of the Week is for the 1970 Beryl Reid shocker The Beast in the Cellar. Ms Reid deserves an article regarding her stellar output all of it's own and one day that will happen. This movie was actually released not just on it's own in the UK but also as a double …
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This week's Poster of the Week is one that is framed and adorns one of the walls in my flat! It's artist Brian Bysouth's extraordinary poster for the 1976 'body switch' comedy Freaky Friday. The attention to detail is amazing with several scenes and characters from the film being depicted and drawn so well! I'm …
This week's chosen poster is the UK quad for The Terminator. An absolute classic and I'm loving the artist's representation of part man/part robot Arnie. When I found the above quad on the internet I saw that there were so many great posters for this film from different countries that deserve to be seen. Below …
I was 14 and the exact right age to watch Taxi Driver for the first time. The perfect movie about alienation being watched by a moody teenager who felt completely alienated. I would regularly venture from my hometown of York to the bustling neighbouring city of Leeds and it was on my next excursion after …
Poster of the week goes to this gorgeous Italian artwork for the Steve McQueen film Nevada Smith from 1966. This is rugged, masculine and just a tad homoerotic.
Hammer Studios goes full-on late Sixties with this shake-up of how they advertised their films to reflect the radical new era. This was an attempt to get away from their previous image which was in danger of looking and feeling stale and archaic. How did they do this? By using humour! The result is iconic.
New feature! Every week I'll be presenting one of my favourite film posters. I actually think of film art as art in it's own right. I'm sure visitors to this website feel the same way. This first poster is the iconic UK poster for Brian De Palma's classic horror movie Carrie from 1976. The …
Every week I'll be recommending one of my favourite soundtracks and why I like them. Hopefully this will inspire you to investigate more, buy the album or dig it out of your collection if you already have it so that you bask in it's glory again. This week is the turn of the Paul Zaza/Carl …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Rabid Grannies A group of relatives meet to celebrate their elderly relations' birthday (but have disclosed that they are only there so that they may be left something in the old duck's inheritances when they pop their clogs). A black-sheep nephew of the octogenarians who practices the …
