Oscar Fever Is Making Me Sick

Martin Scorsese Oscars

New piece up at Asylum: If the Oscars Were Honest, starring gobs of Photoshopped movie posters. Sunday is Oscar night, and while that means nothing to anyone who doesn’t read gossip magazines, we still can’t escape their buzz. So we know that the categories and winners aren’t exactly straightforward. As the film industry dislocates its … Read more

The Fifth Film Is Where Everything Gets Weird

MTV asked me to make some mock movie posters showing why the fifth film in a series is always a bad idea.

More pictures in the link, but my unsanitized text below the cut here.

UPDATE: Lost these images in a site upgrade and all my backups went the way of the dinosaurs in a hard drive catastrophe a few years ago. I’ll fix if I ever find an old drive with them on it.

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7 Advertising Mascot Movies We’d Like To See

Advertising mascot movies

You see this? I toiled over these lousy posters so that Nick Nadel would have a challenge to write something good about them. And lo, he stepped up to the plate and knocked out a home run. Or maybe a triple, which is actually harder to pull off. We co-plotted this off his idea for … Read more