Welcome to Annotate This, where we concisely gather reviews, trailers, and annotate the posters for movies heading to your local cineplex or art house theater this week. Click on the image above to add your comments to the mix.
There are just under two months left until Arrested Development comes Segwaying back into our lives on May 26. In the meantime, Netflix has released a series of character-based promo posters, cashing in on the fact that all it takes to whip AD fans into a frenzy is an image of denim cut-offs.
Invisible Children, the nonprofit behind the KONY 2012 campaign, has asked supporters to spend April 20 raising awareness of the crimes of Ugandan militia leader and horrible person Joseph Kony. But how can you raise awareness? How about with one of the many KONY 2012 knockoffs available on Cafepress, Etsy and…
A website with the lovely name "theshiznit.co.uk" has created a series of fake posters for Oscar-nominated movies with the theme "if 2012's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth." I think "funny" is definitely a word that I could see being applied to these. Click in the lower-left corner of the picture to see…
That Starbucks harbors classist attitudes against hard-working hobos and even harder-working Starbucks employees has been well-documented. Now a French anti-racism group has accused the universally beloved coffee chain of decorating its outlets in France with anti-pickpocketing posters that "targeted a minority."
Is it just us, or was 2010 a particularly good year for movie posters? We put together a compilation of some of the best from lists by Mubi and First Showing.
Geraldine Doyle, model for the WWII-era "We Can Do It" poster that later became a feminist standard, has died at 86.
This is the first poster for the Mel Gibson comedy The Beaver, and... um? It's just one big joke about Mel Gibson telling us that he's crazy. I mean, who are the ad wizards that came up with this one??!
[A window at a Gap on Third Avenue suffers from an indecent exposure, when the sun casts a funny shadow on a poster inside. Photo via A Fine Blog]
Andrea says she met Michelle when she realized they shared a boyfriend. She says he two-timed them in the same bed, without condoms, during Michelle's period, so they teamed up to humiliate him. Michelle says none of this is true.
Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman with a computer. Someone has been wallpapering Williamsburg's telephone poles with a printouts warning of a jobless man who "made passionate nasty sex with [mistresses] ALL OVER" his girlfriend's apartment.
Despite the fact that this is essentially an ad for a Viacom product that also promotes a GE-sponsored celebration of nationalism, this Shepard Fairey poster for Stephen Colbert's Olympics trip is pretty cool. So go paper Vancouver with it, kids!
Sometimes in the movie business you have to work hard for your publicity and sometimes you can just let the world know the buffet is open and start serving.
We typically regard the upcoming G.I. Joe movie as a necessity we'll have to suffer through before the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Garbage Pail Kids epic, but that's not to say there aren't elements that intrigue us.
While film critics' Top 10 lists pile up around the Web, our own review of 2008 must start where any true movie interest starts: The posters.
We've once again gathered Defamer's blue-ribbon panel of movie-marketing insiders, this time to assess what's gone wrong on the unfortunate new poster for the sci-fi B-thriller Push.
Future President of the United States of America Sarah Palin is already proving to be a valuable inspiration to our nation's patriotic art community! Or at least to raggedy, drug-ridden "street art" types in elitist coastal cities. It's not just the happy-go-lucky "Frightening Prospect" posters you see here—we've…
A reader sends us this rather unfortunate arrangement of posters from the 28th Street #1 train subway stop. Well, I think SJP's sexy. I just can't stand that show of hers. [via Phasezero]
The original movie poster for the new Kevin Smith flick, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, was banned by the MPAA earlier this month because it conjured the terrifying image of Seth Rogen receiving a b.j., which is not safe for kids or anyone else. Now the new version of the poster (pictured) is out: the old "so hot you…
