BBH is expanding in Europe with the opening of an office in Dublin, Ireland, with Tesco joining as its founding client. The shop will be headed up by Aubrey O’Connell and Sam Caren as creative leads and Amy Crowe as business lead. O’Connell comes to Dublin after a decade in London including BBH where he created work for clients including Burger King’s hugely successful “Whopper of a Secret” and Tesco Ireland’s first “Food Love Story.” Caren, a 10-year veteran of the Irish advertising scene, is behind award winning work for Ogilvy, Rothco and The Public House, including last year’s FBD Sound Support Olympic sponsorship campaign. He has picked up awards at The One Show, D&AD, Eurobest, The Clios, and Cannes Lions where he collected a Grand Prix with his team for his work on “Saylists” for Warner Music. Crowe began her career at BBH London, working on the global British Airways account and has spent the last 10 years working at some of the best known creative agencies in London. Most recently, she has worked at Mother London on its Samsung UK account, delivering 2021’s 3Fold pop-up music event with Yungblud at Kings Cross, and a Galaxy S22 film in collaboration with fashion designer Charles Jeffrey Loverboy. Alongside Tesco, internationally BBH’s clients include Burger King, Samsung, Audi, Ribena, and Google….
Paul Liam Du Bois has joined entertainment and culture agency Attachment in London as creative director and head of agency growth. Also coming aboard the shop is Frank Antwi as new business development director. Du Bois, who was previously chief client officer and creative director at Verity London, will focus on the expansion and evolution of Attachment in the U.K. and globally, reporting directly to CEO and founder Chris Elrin. Du Bois previously worked with brands including Google, Coca Cola, Chanel, Fiat, Art Basel, Vogue, MTV, and Plug & Play. He has also worked with international agencies such as JL New York, SapientNitro, and SCPF. Independently, Du Bois’ work has driven a wide range of creative innovation projects across more than 14 countries. For NASA, he worked on developing creative strategies to bring space tourism to a global audience, and for the United Nations he brought the Terra Babel initiatives to empower indigenous tribes and secure the preservation of their diverse cultural heritage, using art as a cross-cultural communication medium. Meanwhile Antwi joins Attachment from Wieden + Kennedy London, working across new business in the U.K. and U.S. He was also previously at adam&eveDDB and Grey London, and will also report to Elrin….
Review: Writer-Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Wood’s “Heretic”
"Heretic" opens with an unusual table setter: Two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are discussing condoms and why some are labeled as large even though they're all pretty much a standard size. "What else do we believe because of marketing?" one asks the other.
That line will echo through the movie, a stimulating discussion of religion that emerges from a horror movie wrapper. Despite a second-half slide and feeling unbalanced, this is the rare movie that combines lots of squirting blood and elevated discussion of the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
Our two church members — played fiercely by Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East — are wandering around trying to covert souls when they knock on the door of a sweet-looking cottage. Its owner, Mr. Reed, offers a hearty "Good afternoon!" He welcomes them in, brings them drinks and promises a blueberry pie. He's also interested in learning more about the church. So far, so good.
Mr. Reed is, of course, if you've seen the poster, the baddie and he's played by Hugh Grant, who doesn't go the snarling, dead-eyed Hannibal Lecter route in "Heretic." Grant is the slightly bumbling, bashful and self-mocking character we fell in love with in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," but with a smear of menace. He gradually reveals that he actually knows quite a bit about the Mormon religion — and all religions.
"It's good to be religious," he says jauntily and promises his wife will join them soon, a requirement for the church. Homey touches in his home include a framed "Bless This Mess" needlepoint on a wall, but there are also oddities, like his lights are on a timer and there's metal in the walls and ceilings.
Writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Wood — who also... Read More