Time for a double blonde bombshell overload with this great pair….of posters. I wrote elsewhere about The Seven Year Itch, in which a middle aged man lusts after his younger sexy neighbour. Well, the same actor (Tom Ewell) does pretty much the same in The Girl Can’t Help It, only this time instead of Marilyn…
Terms Of Endearment
This is a movie I went into with very low expectations but ended up loving it. I’m not normally a fan of family drama ‘weepies’. (I generally will run a mile from anything by Nicholas Sparks, for example). But for Terms of Endearment I will make an exception. I saw this at the cinema in…
The Blues Brothers
I must admit I never I quite “got” the appeal of this cult movie. It grew out of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live featuring comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and the movie’s plot (such as it is) – “a mission from God” to save an orphanage – is basically a loose…
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
In the 60s, melodramatic horror movies provided a late career fillip for a number of ageing Hollywood actresses. 1964’s Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte was originally conceived as a follow up to the hit Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. The plan was to again pair Bette Davis with Joan Crawford, to capitalise on their legendary real-life…
Joan Of Arc / Intermezzo
Here are a pair of very old Belgian posters for pivotal movies starring the late, great Ingrid Bergman. By the time she made 1948’s Joan of Arc, she was already a major Hollywood star, having won an Oscar for Gaslight and appeared opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, her most famous role. She had also starred…
Saturday Night Fever
I must admit I never really ‘got’ this movie when it came out. I know it was a huge success and is now hailed as a classic, but I found it rather hokey at the time, and I still think it is somewhat over-rated. The movie’s effect on popular culture cannot be denied, however. It…
Dracula Prince Of Darkness
This is another French ‘grande’ poster, this time for the direct sequel to Hammer’s original Dracula. I remember liking this film a lot when I first saw it on one of the late night horror double bills that the BBC used to run (typically a genteel black and white Universal monster movie followed…
Stage Fright / I Confess
These are two Belgian posters for 1950s Alfred Hitchcock movies. Stage Fright (1950) is not considered one of the greatest Hitchcock movies, by any means. But it does have one very interesting narrative conceit (look away now, spoiler alert!) – the flashback that lied. Jane Wyman spends most of the movie helping Richard Todd escape…
1970s poster magazines
These poster magazines became quite a thing for movie buffs in the UK in the 70s. I have already posted on my collection of Monster Mag, which folded out to reveal a huge, and usually gory, movie still. Not to be outdone, these rival themed horror poster mags promised ‘two giant posters inside.” In its…
Eureka / Bad Timing
These are two posters for movies by the late English auteur Nicolas Roeg. Roeg is probably best known for Don’t Look Now, his nightmarish loose adaptation of a Daphne de Maurier story and The Man Who Fell To Earth, which memorably cast David Bowie as an alien. Eureka and Bad Timing both came after these,…