Barkley has hired Jessica Walden-Morden to serve as creative director. In her new role at the Kansas City agency, she will lead creative work for WingStop, Vanity Fair, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Children’s Health.
Previously, Walden-Morden started her career at Fallon and arrives at Barkley following four years at Publicis. She has traveled the globe creating an award-winning campaign for Cadillac and built a radical rebrand of American Girl that sought to redefine girlhood for modern times. She has worked on broad-reaching accounts such as T-Mobile, Aflac, Totino’s Pizza, and Eddie Bauer.
Walden-Morden was drawn to Barkley because of its independent spirit. “Barkley is a force behind really good work that does real good. Any agency can talk about standing by the big idea, but Barkley has the independence and courage to make it happen—and I can’t wait make it happen together,” she said.
Barkley EVP/executive creative director Katy Hornaday, said that the shop spent nine months interviewing assorted candidates for the creative director’s position before finding Walden-Morden whom Hornaday described as “a true leader to help build Barkley’s future.”
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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