Climate Strike Sydney 20 September

45 Years poster design

My mini poster for Andrew Haigh's fantastic 45 Years. 
Since seeing it, not a day has passed that I haven't found myself thinking about it.

Lost in Translation poster design

My poster for Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation.

You might have heard of it.

Despite a bunch of attempts at other designs, I felt nothing worked as effortlessly as a simple crop of this gorgeous shot from the movie.

The Counselor poster

My poster design for the much-maligned, but utterly unique The Counselor.

Man, some people hated this movie so much, but I was transfixed the whole time (I’ve only seen the Director’s Cut).

There’s little exposition, loads (and loads) of offbeat dialogue and terrible things are always happening – mostly on the edges of these characters lives and mostly offscreen.

The harsh world the movie depicts makes people dismiss it as nihilistic or pointless. But I think The Counselor does have a point – it’s just too horrible for most of us to contemplate.

Macbeth poster

Death. Curses.

My poster design for Justin Kurzel's sensational film of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The Hateful Eight poster design

My mini poster design for Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.

Bone Tomahawk

The film with perhaps the best dialogue of the year, and one of my favourite all-round movies I saw this year was Bone Tomahawk.

With a great cast, all performing at their best (in fact it took ages for me to realise which actors I was even watching in the cases of Richard Jenkins and Matthew Fox), there was unlikely a better ensemble cast this year.

I've seen read that some people find the pace too slow for what they'd heard was a western/horror mashup, but I would have gladly spent another hour with these characters as they talked their way through the barren countryside. I loved these guys.

When the horror does arrive though, it doesn't take the easy road. There are some truly shocking moments which won't soon be forgotten. 

I made up a simple little poster for the film, after ripping images from the great character posters released for the movie.

Can't wait for S. Craig Zahler's next feature. This was a gem.