Monthly Archives: September 2011

Best Movie Posters: Casablanca

Casablanca (1942)

The romantic drama movie directed by Michael Curtiz is held in as high regard today as when it was released back in 1942.

The movie remains one of the greatest love stories ever told on the big screen, and that is largely thanks to the wonderful central performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

I have always had a bit of a thing for the classic posters of the forties and fifties and Casablanca is one of the best.

This movie is all about the characters and to have then feature prominently on the poster seems fitting.

While it doesn’t give to much away about the movie itself it is just so stunningly beautiful!

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Contraband Trailer

We haven’t seen Mark Wahlberg on the big screen since his excellent turn in The Fighter this year… but he is set to make his return with action movie Contraband.

The movie sees him team up with director Baltasar Kormákur as well as Giovanni Ribisi and Kate Beckinsale.

Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling – full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs – where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away.

Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best – running contraband – to settle Andy’s debt.

Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), for one final run to Panama and back, hoping to return with millions in counterfeit bills.

Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

Contraband is released 16th March 2012

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A Dangerous Method Images

A Dangerous Method has been one of the movies to see on the festival circuit, and it will be being screen at the London Film Festival in a couple of weeks time.

David Cronenberg is back in the director’s chair and he is reuniting with Viggo Mortensen after working together on A History of Violence and Eastern Promises.

A Mortensen is joined by the super talents of Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley in an adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play.

Carl Jung (Fassbender), a disciple of Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), is using Freudian techniques to treat Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) at Burghölzli Mental Hospital.

But the deeper Jung’s relationship with Spielrein grows, the further the burgeoning psychiatrist and his highly respected mentor drift apart.

As Jung struggles to help his patient overcome some pressing paternal issues, disturbed patient Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel) sets out to test the boundaries of the doctor’s professional resolve.

Meanwhile, Jung and Freud’s continued sessions with Spielrein lead to a series of profound breakthroughs in the methods that doctors use to treat their patients.

A Dangerous Method is released 10th February. Take a look at some images from the movie:

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Best Movie Posters: Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List (1991)

Steven Spielberg has a knack of producing great poster art for his movie – after praising E.T. & Jaws it’s now the turn of Schindler’s List.

Schindler’s List is one of the greatest war movies to ever grace the big screen with superb central performances from Liam Neeson & Ralph Fiennes.

In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

This is a hugely powerful image of larger hand reaching down and grasping a smaller and more vulnerable being.

This is such a potent image for helping those who needed it – that no other picture could have much such a powerful impact.

And that image is beautifully contrasted with ledgers of prisoners- demonstrating that, at the time, people were nothing more than a number.

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Trailer & Poster

There is already a fair bit of hype surrounding this movie, and this is the first that we have had to take a look at a trailer from the Stephen Daldry directed movie.

Already this film has been surrounded in some Oscar whispers, which is not surprising when you have the likes of Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks; who have three Oscars between them, on the cast list.

Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city.

Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can’t be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father’s closet.

His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is released 3rd February 2012.

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Red Lights Teaser Trailer

Rodrigo Cortés produced one of the best movies of 2011 when he ‘Buried’ Ryan Reynolds in a super tense thriller.

He is set to return to the director’s chair with another creepy offering Red Lights, which stars Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy.

The movie centres on a psychologist Margaret Matheson (Weaver), and her assistant Sally Owen (Elizabeth Olsen), whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic.

The movie looks set to be a creepy ass drama and we have the first trailer for you to take a look at.

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Exclusive Flypaper Images

Flypaper is coming to DVD next month and sees Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd team up in the Rob Minkoff directed movie.

During a seemingly normal afternoon, Tripp Kennedy (Patrick Dempsey) strolls into his bank near closing time, just as two different bank robbery gangs unwittingly target it at the same time.

As a shoot-out erupts, Tripp tries to protect the bank teller Kaitlin (Ashley Judd), who has a smart, but pretty head filled with prime numbers.

As the conflicting gangs deadlock themselves in a standoff, one clearly a group of slick professionals and the other a couple of dim-witted buffoons named Peanut Butter (Tim Blake Neslon) and Jelly (Pruitt Taylor Vince) , the bank’s security system starts the end of day lockdown and seals everyone in the building.

As the night evolves, a hilarious game of cat and mouse ensues as Tripp and Kaitlin try to save the day, escape being killed, and avoid falling in love…. almost.

Full of non-stop action, suspense, twists, surprises and laugh-out-loud moments, Flypaper is anything but an ordinary bank heist movie that is not to be missed!

Take a look at some exclusive images from the movie:

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Best Movie Posters – Star Wars: A New Hope

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

Star Wars remains one of the greatest franchises to grace the big screen as fans were thrilled by George Lucas and the story of Luke Skywalker.

The series of films; A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi saw Luke and his band of friends battle against evil and for each other – and they remain as exciting now as they did when they first hit the big screen.

Bering that in mind the poster that we are celebrating today is Star Wars: A New Hope – which was released back in 1977.

Now there has been come great poster art for this series of movies over the years but A New Hope marked the birth of this great franchise.

The poster depicts Luke and Princess Leia with Darth Vader looming over them – he is a presence that really dominates all three movies.

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Butter Clip

Jennifer Garner is set to return to the big screen with her new movie Butter, which sees her team up with director Jim Field Smith as well as Hugh Jackman and Olivia Wilde.

Ty Burrell, Ashley Greene, Alicia Silverstone and Rob Corddry are all also on the cast list in what promises to be the fiercest battle of the year… butter sculpting.

A comedy set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town’s annual contest.

Take a look at the first clip from the movie:

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Another Poster For The Rum Diary

We have already had one new poster for Johnny Depp’s new movie the Rum Diary but now I have a second for you to feast your eyes on.

Yes Depp is back later this year in the big screen adaptation of the Hunter. S Thompson novel of the same name.

Bruce Robinson is in the director’s chair for what looks set to be another funny and slightly eccentric turn from the Oscar nominated actor.

And he is joined on the cast list by Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Jenkins.

Paul Kemp (Depp) is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean

Soon after arriving in San Juan, he manages to land a job at the ‘Daily News’, an English-language rag whose staff, an assortment of has-beens, mad geniuses, drunks, and spongers, would seem more at home in the Foreign Legion.

Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.

The Rum Diary is released 4th November. Take a look at the new poster for the movie:

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