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2012-01-26T12:47:20-08:00

Edwina Trout

Japanese Haiku. Like Movie Poster Tagline. Only Much Longer.

2012-01-24T06:12:00-08:00

Dear Edwina,

Review in Haiku: Brevity in film review. Everyone happy. The only way to get your movie reviews, if you ask me. And you didn't.

Signed, 575

We like this so much we decided to steal it. Here’s our reviews of IMPAards Best and Worst Posters:Please Mister Clooney More time was needed

Look into the camera For you to finish the art?

It’s for the one-sheet. You should have said so.

Stop! You're Frightening The Horses!

2012-01-23T06:08:00-08:00

And the winnwer is...

Spoiler Alert: Don Didn’t Jump, Peggy Pushed Him

2012-01-20T06:00:00-08:00

Edwina Trout

January Is National Eye Care Month

2012-01-19T06:02:00-08:00

A public service announcement from MonKeyArtAwards.

@rupertmurdoch

2012-01-18T10:36:35-08:00

Maybe those senators would be more cooperative if Herr Rupert hacked their cell phones.

You Know A Web Site Is Based In Canada When…

2012-01-18T06:39:00-08:00

IIf you’re like us, you couldn’t help but notice the polite consideration IMPAwards demonstrated in omitting the agency credit on all the nominees for its Worst Movie Posters nominees, yet leaving them in place for the Best Poster nominees.Click on image to link to IMPAwards nominees.

TMI In The Great Outdoors

2012-01-16T06:00:00-08:00

Dear Edwina,

I’ve passed this billboard every day for the past week or so and I still can’t tell what it’s about. Why are the men’s neckties all drifting up but the woman’s hair isn’t? Doesn’t it seem like overkill to have a $ in “House” and then have another $ in “Lies”?! And what is going on in the background? Please hurry and reply… I’m parked in a red zone.

Click on image to enlarge.

Dear Red Zone,

Having consulted IMPAwards, it’s obvious the problem is that the billboard art cropped out the desk with the legal pad on it as well as the all-important floating ball point pen. No doubt these items would have cleared things up for you. Or maybe those two dollars signs would have been less annoying if the E’s were euro signs and the L was a British pound symbol (HOU$€ OF £I€$). Or maybe if the copy had said something like, “OMFG! Sharks!!!”

It’s Easy When You Know How

2012-01-12T06:22:00-08:00

Okay, the title has “In Progress” in it, so we can do something like Jake in Progress, that gives us a park bench, right? So now we’ve got two females on a bench, let’s add a loose-line illustration of a city skyline in the background. Check. All righty, nothing even remotely original here. We are good to go!

We Bought A Flop

2012-01-10T07:59:42-08:00

Dear Edwina...
This movie has one of the world's bigger stars and one of America's supreme hotties. Why are they advertising it with lazy, generic, sub-conceptual tedium like this? If I free-associate this movie based on the art, the word "boring" comes up even before "zoo." I don't think this would make my agency's first-round internal review. And yet... major billboards all over town!
I'm cranky.
—Hugh G. Rection

We, too, wondered about the absence of humans in the posters. It's not like you're trying to hide a Hilary Swank film from an unsuspecting public.

Another reader sent us the poster on the left a few weeks back along with the comment, “Nice.” Yes, it’s very nice, very artsy; but unless you recognize animals by their paw prints, it tells us nothing about the movie… except, perhaps, to avoid it.