Aleysa Young of Untitled Films, Toronto, directed this web video which showcases in offbeat fashion how Toshiba’s All-in-One desktop computer with gesture control can come to the rescue.
In this case, the protagonist is a college student who wakes up to find that he has been plastic wrapped to his bed in a dorm room filled with live chickens. Managing to get a foot free from the plastic wrap encasement, the young man is able to activate his computer and phone for help via the gesture of a big toe.
Agency is Capital C.
This and two other videos in the Back to School campaign can be viewed on Toshiba Canada’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
“We really tried to capture insights about life on campus. Like how disgusting a dorm could actually be or how well do you really know the guy you’re rooming with,” remarked Gary Watson, executive creative director, Capital C. “We focused on the product itself and built storylines around those features. It just so happened that they inspired some fun thinking.”
Review: Writer-Director Mark Anthony Green’s “Opus”
In the new horror movie "Opus," we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the '90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as "Thriller," "Hotel California" and "Nebraska." If the name Alfred Moretti sounds more like a personal injury attorney from New Jersey, that's the first sign "Opus" is going to stumble.
John Malkovich leans into his regular off-kilter creepy to play the unlikely pop star at the center of this serious misfire by the A24 studio, a movie that also manages to pull "The Bear" star Ayo Edebiri back to earth. How both could be totally miscast will haunt your dreams.
Writer-director Mark Anthony Green has created a pretty good premise: A massive pop star who went quiet for the better part of three decades reemerges with a new album — his 18th studio LP, called "Caesar's Request" — and invites a select six people to come to his remote Western compound for an album listening weekend. It's like a golden ticket.
Edebiri's Ariel is a one of those invited. She's 27, a writer for a hip music magazine who has been treading water for three years. She's ambitious but has no edge. "Your problem is you're middle," she's told. Unfortunately, her magazine boss is also invited, which means she's just a note-taker. Edebiri's self-conscious, understated humor is wasted here.
It takes Ariel and the rest of the guests — an influencer, a paparazzo, a former journalist-nemesis and a TV personality played by Juliette Lewis, once again cast as the frisky sexpot — way too much time to realize that Moretti has created a cult in the desert. And they're murderous. This is Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" crossed with Mark Mylod's "The Menu."
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