In their first move since the launch of San Francisco agency Fancy last month, creative directors Mauro Alencar and Geoff Edwards have added two new creatives: DJ Neff, formerly of Deutsch LA, and Mark Krajan who comes over from TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles. At Deutsch, Neff worked exclusively on Sony PlayStation for the past year. Prior to that he was at Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami and Boulder. Colo. As for Krajan, he worked on Nissan-Infiniti and Visa at TBWAChiatDay. Previously he spent six years at McCann Worldgroup and T.A.G. in San Francisco on such brands as Xbox, Microsoft, General Motors and the San Francisco 49ers….SKUNK, New York, has signed director Julian Pugsley (formerly known as Pugsley) for spots. Pugsley has an agency pedigree, having been a creative at Berlin Cameron before eventually making the transition to director. His recent credits include a pair of Black & Decker campaigns for McCann Erickson, New York, and a two-spot package for Partnership for a Drug-Free America out of North Carolina agency McKinney….Elisa Orsburn has joined marketing ideas agency WONGDOODY, Culver City, Calif., as a broadcast producer. She will manage various broadcast projects and production efforts for agency clients including Full Tilt Poker and GameFly. Orsburn previously served as a producer at 72andSunny, El Segundo, Calif. While there, she oversaw full-scale productions including animation, live-action shoots, web films and music compositions for Microsoft Zune, Bugaboo and AND1. Prior to 72andSunny, Orsburn was an associate producer at TBWA/Chiat/Day in San Francisco, where she worked on broadcast projects for adidas, Motorola, Disney, Ameristar, McDonald's and Ask.com….Digital agency R/GA has added Peter Cole as technology director for its San Francisco office. He has a track record of producing successful rich-media applications and cutting edge digital experiences. Cole will partner with Mauro Cavalletti, executive creative director, R/GA San Francisco. Cole and Cavalletti previously worked at AKQA, where they collaborated on projects for Target. While there, Cole oversaw and built multiple engagements for Nike, Xbox, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Kraft. In addition, he helped develop and deploy the first iPhone applications for Target and Gap. During his eight-year tenure at AKQA San Francisco, Cole rose to become director of creative development. He previously held the title of multimedia and web developer at Saatchi & Saatchi and Citron, Haligman, Bedecarre, where he developed websites, online marketing and various digital experiences for clients including, Visa, Palm and Procter & Gamble….
Review: Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson
So you think YOUR job is bad?
Sorry if we seem to be lacking empathy here. But however crummy you think your 9-5 routine is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" — nor will any job, on Earth or any planet, approach this level of misery.
Mickey, you see, is an "Expendable," and by this we don't mean he's a cast member in yet another sequel to Sylvester Stallone's tired band of mercenaries ("Expend17ables"?). No, even worse! He's literally expendable, in that his job description requires that he die, over and over, in the worst possible ways, only to be "reprinted" once again as the next Mickey.
And from here stems the good news, besides the excellent Pattinson, whom we hope got hazard pay, about Bong's hotly anticipated follow-up to "Parasite." There's creativity to spare, and much of it surrounds the ways he finds for his lead character to expire — again and again.
The bad news, besides, well, all the death, is that much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess. In so many ways, the always inventive Bong just doesn't know where to stop. It hardly seems a surprise that the sci-fi novel, by Edward Ashton, he's adapting here is called "Mickey7" — Bong decided to add 10 more Mickeys.
The first act, though, is crackling. We begin with Mickey lying alone at the bottom of a crevasse, having barely survived a fall. It is the year 2058, and he's part of a colonizing expedition from Earth to a far-off planet. He's surely about to die. In fact, the outcome is so expected that his friend Timo (Steven Yeun), staring down the crevasse, asks casually: "Haven't you died yet?"
How did Mickey get here? We flash back to Earth, where Mickey and Timo ran afoul of a villainous loan... Read More