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I love it when the film's marketing team knows exactly how to hype up the film even more by releasing a poster that is visually captivating and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. I have compiled 30 poster, some from the same films, that I feel are some of the best posters of this year due to their imaginative artwork that translates the film's premise with impressive visual style. Whether it's the staged and cool toned photography in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, the imaginative and detailed design of Willow Creek, or even the seductive minimalism of the Under the Skin poster, this year has been another impressive year for movie posters! Take a gander and tell me which poster is your favorite, if you can even pick one (cause I can't)!

- Film Review for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part I) -

Film Review of Nightcrawler // More Posters

- Film Review for Under the Skin -

(I love it how for The Interview, the Korean actually translate to "Don't believe these obnoxious American fools!")

- Film Review for Birdman -

- Film Review for The Grand Budapest Hotel -

- Film Review for Tusk -

Film Review for I // Film Review for II / More Posters

- Film Revie w for Palo Alto -

- Film Review for Blue Ruin -

- See more Posters Here -

Year: 2014
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Writer: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armandro Bo
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Cast: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Zach Galifianakis
Country of Origin: U.S.
Rating: R
Time: 119 min

This may be a bold statement but I can honestly say Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman is my favorite film of the year! It has the total package of a stellar cast, a relevant and important meta story, and technically meticulous and beautiful cinematography. There's no denying how magnificent the film is but as I was watching it, I couldn't help but feel like the film was made for me (self-involved much?) given my strong preferences of all the spellbinding attributes Birdman embraced and showcased. It is one of those films that reminds you of every single reason why you ever fell in love with film in the first place. Here I list for you the 5 reasons why I loved the film so much!

01:47 - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

02:52 - Cinematography

04:17 - Michael Keaton's Character

05:46 - The Cast

08:20 - Because I can watch it all the time!

Trailer // Poster // Stills

We are a week away from the release of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman and now, we have a grip of new posters with Birdman at various iconic American landmarks! And to be quite frank, even though these posters are beautifully done, i loved the stark and blarring red version of the poster shown here. But I must admit, I am ecstatic to see new promotional material appearing on the interwebs just days and weeks before we finally witness the unexpected virtue of ignorance as they say! I am seriously overly excited for this madness! Birdman comes out October 18!

OMG!! What is this! I am been deprived of truly mind-imploding cinema as of lately! So you can understand my overly enthusiastic and giddy excitement when I heard that one of my favorite Spanish filmmakers Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, Biutiful) is coming out with a new film called Birdman! Michael Keaton plays an actor who, sometime after achieving fame for playing a superhero, sets out to redeem himself by staging an adaptation of Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk About Love on Broadway. The premise might sound a little wonky but have no fear because after you witness the insanity that ensues in the teaser trailer, you will be surely drunk on ecstasy for this film as I am!!!

Clearly, I am not the only one who was surprised at Keaton being the main actor in this film because we all know, his glory 90's days are unforgettable as Beetlejuice and Batman. AMIRIGHT? But seeing his mental state completely unravel to angry mush makes me all warm inside. This casts is basically compiled of my dream team starting with Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Amy Ryan and Andrea Riseborough. Zach Galifianakis is also in it but you all know how I feel about him. This Birdman trailer is absolutely bonkers and loaded with enough special effects that it leaves a bad after taste in my mouth but I'm hoping his usual gritty trademark filmmaking is still intact to deliver us another profoundly universal story. Just the opening sequence alone of Keaton nonchalantly gliding back stage to a soothing cover of Gnarls Barkley 'Crazy' is an intensely beautiful showcase of the power of Inarritu's vision! (That tracking shot though!!) Either way, I am enthused with this possible new direction he is taking with cinema. Hopefully we see it soon at Toronto or something! Birdman comes out October 17!