Brandon Routh’s major starring role post Superman is another comic-book hero

With the casting of Henry Cavill as the new Superman, I often wondered how the previous big-screen Kryptonian hero Brandon Routh feel about this. Is he upset? Disappointed? Relieved? I know that various news reported that he was vying to be invited back to reprise his role of man of steel, but he just seems …

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The Flix List: Top Ten Favorite Posters of 2010

From now until New Year's, I'll be posting various Top Ten list of 2010 movies. I love movie posters, so I might as well start with those. Thanks to Luke @ Cynicritics for selecting The Art of Movie Poster from back in April in his list of most wonderful posts of the year. I'm so …

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Poster of the Week: The King’s Speech

I love quad posters. They're usually more interesting that the typical vertical format and this one is no different. I thought that the first official poster looked terrible, it's definitely one of those cases when bad posters happens to good movies. This one however, is regal looking version worthy of an Oscar contender! The historical …

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Flix Posters of the Week: HP7 Character Posters

Is it just me or does anyone else think that seemingly every week we've got a new set of Harry Potter character posters. Even if you don't read the books or watch their movies, it's hard to deny HP is such a marketing juggernaut, a global business phenomenon with seemingly 'magical' powers when it comes to …

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Flix Poster of the Week: You Will Meet a Tall, Dark, Stranger

Another year, another Woody Allen's ensemble-cast movie. I'm not one to rush to see his movies, in fact, I can count with one hand how many of his films I have seen. But these posters of his upcoming rom-com just spell lovely. I love, love these! The illustrated silhouettes are so simple yet sooo romantic, …

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Flix Poster of the Week: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

The swirly yellow font treatment set against stark black caught my attention in the Apple trailer page, but the official poster set in nifty illustration is even more artsy. I love how the monsters' hands guide draw your eyes down to the terrified-looking girl and down to that script fonts of the title. Very creative, …

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The Art of Movie Posters

I was taking a break from blogging and just browsing randomly last night, and I came across this site that gives out International movie awards annually. It's called IMP Awards which stands for Internet Movie Poster. How cool is that? I didn't even know this existed, I kind of found this out the same way …

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