Lisa Schreiber Naber of Boardalicious has joined the LAIR family, handling West Coast and Texas representation. This comes at a pivotal time as LAIR continues to refine its roster of multimedia talents alongside the development of its sibling post company, Lion’s Den, represented by newly appointed Lori Youmans of Match Maker Media. Boardalicious will be working closely with LAIR’s VP of business development Kelly Carson who will continue to rep on the East Coast and in the Midwest….
Creative marketing agency Compadre has brought Ryan D’Arcy aboard as director of client partnerships. D’Arcy is a hands-on accounts specialist who has partnered with clients as varied as Hot Wheels and Bloomin’ Brands while holding tenure at RAPP. More recently, he was at Liquid+Arcade, where he collaborated on video game campaigns with Capcom, Activision Blizzard, and Square Enix, as well as a variety of mobile and indie game studios. His portfolio includes multiple award-winning campaigns for such popular titles as Overwatch, Final Fantasy, Elden Ring, and Marvel’s Avengers…..
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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