Movie posters are often boring and uninspired, but that’s simply because movie studios are lazy and don’t really care about the design. Put everything in orange and teal with floatting heads and you got yourself your standard Hollywood movie poster.

Some designers do push things further and dare a bit of originality. Here are some of the best movie posters of the year, according to me.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

Anything made by Neil Kellerhouse is awesome. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has probably one the best marketing campaign of the year in term of graphic design. Kellerhouse previously did the poster for Social Network and a bunch of Criterions. Continue Reading

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Here’s a simple rule in life: if someone/something proclaims itself as cool, that’s very uncool. For a brief moment though, during 89-90, Vanilla Ice was believed by some to be a rising star. We still don’t know on what drugs they were at the time, but his hit single ‘Ice Ice Baby‘ (or Under Pressure as some prefer to call it) was even nominated for a Grammy! Sadly, Vanilla‘s fame had to vanish because he was a character who couldn’t exist out of the early 90′s. White boys with flashy clothes and weird haircuts were already out in 1992. Continue Reading

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Ever since Jaws in 1975, it’s been proven many times that people love sharks (further proof: Shark Week). Long before Shark Night 3D, Hollywood had already been planning a return of the voracious predator on the big screen. Here are a few projects which got lost in development hell. Continue Reading

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Written and directed by Alan Butcher (2010)

The short film is way better than most pseudo-viral stories that we’ve seen in the recent years. For a moment, the short almost fooled me.

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