We’ve just discovered the young and talented Aussie painter Ryan Asher McShane with some fantastic work from his official page. Here are some of his excellent film poster artworks, a blend of great films and great skill. Not bad at all for a 17-year-old and certainly one to watch. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Craig Zobel (2012) Craig Zobel‘s nasty little film, works extremely hard to leave it its audience is a cold, dark and confusing place. A thriller (or more accurately a horror film) which deftly uses our own view of authority, morality and privacy to a seriously disturbing end, using little violence, no blood; not even a scream. Compliance … Continue reading »
Adam Juresko has been a long time favorite here at Projector so we thought it about time that we featured a small selection of his design savvy film work. His website and his Etsy stores are well worth a look and most of the designs here are still for sale. Don’t let the subdued colours … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Danny Boyle (2013) Danny Boyle takes some cues from Alfred Hitchcock obsession with memory and John Frankenheimer‘s 60′s thrillers to craft a ludicrously twisty but undeniably enjoyable memory puzzle. Although it is definitely the director’s least spectacular entry in a while, is certainly never dull. James McAvoy plays Simon, an art dealer who has taken a nasty crack on the … Continue reading »
★★☆☆☆ Dir. Brad Anderson (2013) Brad Anderson returns with this high concept thriller which is in constant danger of completely buckling under its own far-fetched plot, obvious dialogue and turned up to 11 performances. The director, who hit the big time with The Machinist and Christian Bale‘s painfully skinny body, disregards the taught, slow and smart horrors he’s … Continue reading »
★★☆☆☆ Dir. Todd Phillips (2013) Todd Phillips’ box office winner The Hangover was a surprise smash back in 2009 with its corrosive humour and a good retracing structure. Three friends try to find a missing groom the day before his wedding day in Las Vegas after a night on the town. It was simple, often shocking … Continue reading »
★★☆☆☆ Dir: Niels Arden Oplev (2012) Niels Arden Oplev infiltrates the states with this double-edged revenge tale hampered by its own slow ham-fisted scripting and a stagnant performance by Colin Farrell. Reconnecting with Noomi Rapace whom he made a star out of after his version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the director seems affectionately drawn to the … Continue reading »
★★★★★ Dir: Don Hertzfeld (2012) The definition of the word animation in our vocabulary has undoubtably changed of late. Years ago, teams of artists would sit hunched over for days and nights furiously penning away illustrated masterpieces for months and months and months. The “tweening” of frames (a process of filling in the gaps between … Continue reading »
A fantastic poster by Lyra for Ben Rivers lovely quiet film Two Years at Sea. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir. Ben Rivers (2012) Ben Rivers revisits Jake Williams from his 2006 short film This Is My Land in this 88 minute near wordless portrait of a man living in the Scottish wilderness. Rivers’ flickering vintage Bolex 16mm simply captures a series of set up sequences with this real life wilderness man in grainy black and white, ranging … Continue reading »
In light of this months release of Man of Steel, here are a couple of brilliant Superman III posters from Poland we thought you might like. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, Adam Wingard (2012) Last year’s surprisingly good horror anthology V/H/S gave 5 directors free rein with digital cameras to tie together story concerned with the haunting and creepy quality of a lost medium through tried and tested horror tropes. The result was a genuinely scary short film compilation. The good … Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Jukka Kärkkäinen (2012) Pertii Kurikka’s Name Day are a Finnish punk band you may never of heard of. The autistic temperamental lead singer Pertti Kurikka and front man Karl Aalto, and the Down’s syndrome rhythm section of Sami Helle and Toni Välitalo have a little more to rage about than the government and revolt. Their afflictions and their … Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Steven Soderbergh (2013) The very public retirement the outspoken, genre bending Steven Soderbergh came with the release of two films; This years Behind the Candelabra (a bio pic of an intense period of the life of composer Liberace) and, true to the directors eclectic stylings Side Effects which is a sort of social commentary laden thriller about the over medication of the … Continue reading »
We Buy Your Kids get a little murky with Jeff Nichol’s Mud. Continue reading »
César Moreno‘s wonderful screen print for the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Eduardo Sánchez (2012) When Ed Sánchez and Dan Myrick blew open the film world in 1999 with the phenomenal The Blair Witch Project nobody could ever have guessed the influence which the film would have and the path which the modern horror film would take in the short 15 years after. A tiny film, shot badly on … Continue reading »
We’ve broken the mould here at Projector Magazine for Adam Spizak, whose wonderful work for Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Walking Dead & Californication begs to be seen. Take a look at the posters in the gallery below and be sure to head over and check out the rest of his fantastic work. You can also get a glimpse inside of … Continue reading »
The super talented Grzegorz Domaradzk paints a nice McQueen. Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Jonathan Levine (2012) Jonathan Levine has always been an interesting young film maker a blossoming career filled with unique choices and startling left turns. Kicking off with the somewhat underrated slasher All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, the seriously underrated The Wackness and the touching, honest and controversial 50/50, he’s a man of many genre’s. Warm Bodies is partly … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Joe Wright (2012) Joe Wright‘s bold Tolstoy adaptation takes a mammoth novel and distills it into one place; A theatre. As a concept it’s a fierce stroke; with most of the film playing onstage, backstage and in the audience in many of the novel’s high society parties, we are rarely allowed outside at all. “All the world … Continue reading »
★★☆☆☆ Dir: Baz Luhrmann (2013) Baz Luhrmann‘s glitzy, superficial style could be compared to a cannon full of confetti, exploding squarely in one’s face. Crashing high shots which zoom through cities and dip through windows, painfully over edited conversations, boorish pop songs filling nearly every second of film, campy, wince inducing dance numbers inhabit most of his work; Lets just say, … Continue reading »
★☆☆☆☆ Dir: John Moore (2013) 1988′s Die Hard is a classic action film; Simple, fun, excessively violent, loud and confined. It rebranded the action hero as an everyday Joe (or John as it were) and it paved the way for 2 sequels which were adequate in almost every way. Renny Harlin bringing John McClane back to the screen … Continue reading »
★★★★★ Dir: Tobias Lindholm (2013) Tobias Lindholm has already delivered one incredible piece of work this year, helping out Thomas Vinterberg in penning the rather excellent The Hunt. That slow burning film, taught with uncertainty and wonderfully handed by Vinterberg in the directors chair, is now neck and neck with Lindholm’s own brilliant slow burning exercise in tension with the … Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Shane Black (2013) Jon Favreau takes a back seat as producer in the third and brilliantly enjoyable Iron Man film, letting Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang scribe and director Shane Black into the chair. It’s a move which pays off pushing the third film to the top of the pile with fantastic … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Park Chan-Wook (2013) Park Chan-Wook‘s English language debut feature is filled with wonderfully tense moments, sublimely edited single sequences and sound design to make even the most strong stomached cinema goer go a big wobbly one but it’s seriousness becomes a crutch in the film’s final third when the Korean director tries to entertain … Continue reading »
★☆☆☆☆ Dir: Nicolás López (2013) Nicolás López, Eli Roth and Guillermo Amoedo‘s horribly misjudged disaster film is nothing short of jaw-dropping in its offensive swaggering idiocy. No doubt a strange excuse for Roth (who stars here as “The Gringo”) and his buddies to go on an extended trip around Chile, Aftershock takes its time too. It’s lengthy “character … Continue reading »
Mondo are debuting a series of posters from one of the most influential and important America directors this week curated by Aaron Horkey. Hard Eight, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood can be bought on their website later this week… Continue reading »
Stunning collection of work inspired by the films of Godard by the talented Juan Villanueva. Continue reading »
★☆☆☆☆ Dir. Roman Coppola (2013) Roman Coppola‘s atrocious return to the directors chair sees him wasting an opportunity backed by his recent sublime Oscar recognised writing work with Wes Anderson and a cast pilfered from the American style master’s phonebook… and Charlie Sheen. The tiger blood drinking, drug taking, winning Adonis plays a thinly veiled version of his broken … Continue reading »
A very grizzly poster indeed for Franck Khalfoun’s version of William Lustieg’s 1980 Argento influenced cult slasher by Jeff Proctor. You can more of his stunning work here… Continue reading »
Akiko Stehrenberger goes to neon town on Harmonie Korine’s bonkers spring break epic. Continue reading »
Inside Llewyn Davis our favorite trailer of the year so far ha just gotten another (near identical one) ahead of its Cannes Premiere and a pretty 60′s band poster for the film itself. The film looks beautifully photographed and looks to center on an aspiring singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) in the 1960s folk-music scene in New York City’s Greenwich … Continue reading »
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) A small collection of the legend’s wonderful work. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Derek Cianfrance (2013) Derek Cianfrance‘s sprawling triptych of a film is certainly an ambitious follow-up to his heartbreaker par excellence Blue Valentine; This is a finely acted and beautifully shot morality tale which consumes two families over the course of more than fifteen years. Sagging slightly in the middle despite a fantastic performance from Bradley Cooper, the films bookending tales are when The Place … Continue reading »
★★★★★ Dir: Shane Carruth (2013) Nine years after the infuriating and brilliant Primer took home the big prize at Sundance, writer / director / producer / actor / composer / editor / cinematographer / weirdo Shane Carruth has found inspiration in one unlikely place and many recognisable ones Upstream Color, and you may have already read this before, … Continue reading »
★☆☆☆☆ Dir. John Luessenhop (2013) The build up to watching Texas Chainsaw 3D and then actually having to watch Texas Chainsaw 3D is much like the experience of seeing a lake of flaming shit on the horizon from the window of a small aircraft and then attempting to safely land in it. Of course, if you survive your little nosedive into this flaming … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Michel Gondry (2013) Director Michel Gondry channels some early Spike Lee magic with this infectious and offensive bus journey of a film. The french music video auteur drops most of his visual tricks of the trade and instead puts the focus on a dozen teenage Bronx kids, riding the fictitious BX66 bus home … Continue reading »
After the crushing and dividing Antichrist and the crushing and destructive Meloncholia the Danish master is at it again. This just launched this morning along with a stark and blatantly sexual film poster. The film, due out later this year follows one womans sexual history from birth until her 50′s when she is saved by a stranger after a beating … Continue reading »
It would seem that in Ghana (whose make shift film posters we are already big fans of), where the hollywood advertising machine can’t quite reach, the DIY aspect of advertising is alive and well. Take a look at what we dug up this morning; An amazing collection, some hysterical, some brilliant, most just plain mad. … Continue reading »
★★☆☆☆ Dir. Franck Khalfoun (2013) William Lustieg’s 1980 Argento influenced cult slasher was never a real contender of priority in the slew of remakes currently gracing our screens. Admirably, splat pack member and infant terrible Alexandre Aja delved deep in to the barrel, writing and producing this for P2 director Franck Khalfoun. After all if you’re coming to the plate … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Rob Zombie (2013) Rob Zombie is a bit of an acquired taste. His take on horror is a scuzzy, vintage one. The grime of House of 1,000 Corpses was often enough to make your food start its ascension from your stomach and The Devils Rejects playfully, if rather haughtily played with the backwater kidnap film. They are stinky sordid affairs with their … Continue reading »
Reiner Riedler is an Austrian photographer and artist whose new work The Unseen Seen deals with the concept of nostalgia in film and its last gasp of life. Riedler “backlit the film rolls by installing film lights behind the objects, lighting each roll in the same way for continuity. The result was a collection of … Continue reading »
Chris Rock has an incredible bit about the decline of rap music’s artistic integrity. Angered at how, in these superficial, over sexualised, trend focused times, it’s becoming increasingly impossible to for him to defend it. He paces like a lion in a cage, filled with self-hatred for accepting what his favorite genre now stands for in the … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ Dir. Lee Toland Krieger (2013) Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones put in a couple of winning performances in a film which doesn’t quite know if it’s out to slander the conventions of the romantic comedy or use them to its own unique means. Celeste and Jesse look like any couple in love; they meet, share their first … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ (2013) The Governator returns to the screen after a ten-year stint as chief of America’s most powerful state in this fun, western nodding piece of action fluff. Directed by Korean powerhouse Jee-Woon Kim, The Last Stand manages to rise much further above it’s fairly awful script and predictable twists without baring the tiniest resemblance … Continue reading »
★★☆☆☆ (2012) It’s not hard to see why Guillermo Del Toro hand-picked Argentine Andrés Muschietti to flesh out his 3 minute short film Mama into a gothic suburban horror feature. Loaded with scares and atmosphere but sadly unravelling into a bit of a mess in the film’s second half, it falls victim to many clichés rampant in recent … Continue reading »
★★★☆☆ (2012) This supremely stupid B-Movie blood fest has just enough gusto to make you forget the world for 90 minutes and revel, unashamedly in the ludicrousness of it all. The concept; A tsunami hits a coastal Australian town and a handful of survivors find themselves trapped inside a flooded supermarket with a couple of pissed off 12ft great white … Continue reading »
The Cannes Film Festival will kick off on may 15th and, as the runners were unveiled this morning, it’s shaping up to be another interesting year for film making. With Steven Spielberg and Thomas Vinterberg charing the juries and new films from Roman Polanski, Paolo Sorrentino, Alexandre Payne, Francois Ozon and and Joel and Ethan Coen, the … Continue reading »
So, Bobcat Goldthwait has made a film about Bigfoot. if that wasn’t awesome enough have a look at this gem of a poster by Alex Pardee. Continue reading »
